Diamond Plaid
Background Tutorial
by
©Donna Ann
2004
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Needed for this Tutorial:
Tube of your choice
Filters:
Simple/Diamonds and 4-Way Average Here
FM Tile Tools/Blend Emboss
MrRa's Seamless/Shift at Random
You can find these filters Here
Open your tube, resize if necessary so that it is not wider than 300 pixels.
Window/Duplicate ~~ Close the original and shrink your remaining image to the clipboard.
Choose a Gradient from your Materials box, or make your own by using your eye dropper tool and picking two colors from your tube.
Make a new Transparent Image 1024 X the Height of your tube.
Flood Fill with your new Gradient.
Effects/Plugins/MrRa's Seamless/Shift at Random
Effects/Plugins/Simple/Diamonds
Effects/Plugins/FM Tile Tools/ Blend Emboss - use the default settings
Effects/Plugins/Simple/4-Way Average
Activate your tube, Edit/Copy
Edit/Paste as a new Selection and move to the left side of your background image.
Effects/3-D Effects/Drop Shadow
Selections/Select none
Layers/Merge/Merge all flatten
Selections/Select all
Selections/Modify/Contract 2
Image/Crop to selection
Add your watermark and assemble in Letter Creator.
Download
IMF File
http://www.davose.com
and picking two colors from your tube.
with your new Gradient.
