DA-Simple ZigZag Background

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©Donna Ann

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 Needed for this tutorial:

 A tube image

PSP

Filters:  Simple/Quick tile http://www.btinternet.com/~cateran/simple

(or you can use "Effects/Image effects/Seamless tile" within the PSP program)

MuRa's Seamless/Shift at ZigZag -   http://www.geocities.com/murakuma/doc/msPsFltB/msPsFltB.html

*If you use a tube, with your eyedropper , pick a color from your tube.   You will want this to use as a background on one of your tube images.

Open your tube

Windows/Duplicate two times.

Close the original and minimize one of the remaining copies.

On the open image, Layer/New raster layer

Flood fill  with your chosen background color.

Layer/Arrange/Send to bottom

Layers/Merge/Merge (all flatten)

Effects/plugins/Simple/Quick tile

Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur

Effects/Plugins/MuRa's Seamless/Shift at ZigZag

Layers/Promote Background layer

Image/Canvas size - Width-1240 or 1280, or 1440 which ever you prefer using____Height-the height of your image

Layer/New raster layer

Flood fill with your background color

Layers/Arrange/Send to bottom

Layers/Merge/Merge (all flatten)

Layers/Promote Background layer

Activate your other tube image

Copy/Paste as a new selection on to your first image.  I offset mine here.  You can choose to do this also, or put it entirely inside the side border.

Effects/3D Effects Drop Shadow

Selections/Select none

Add text is desired *Optional

Layers/Merge/Merge (all flatten)

Add your watermark if you use one,

Save as a jpg image for assembly in Letter Creator.