Soft Textured

Background

Tutorial

By

Donna Ann

2004

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Needed to do this Tutorial:

< PSP 7 or 8

Filters:  

FM Tile Tools/Blend Emboss

Simple/Quick Tile and 4-Way   Average

FunHouse/ZizZaggerate

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Tube of your choice


 

Open your Tube

With your eyedropper tool   pick a light color for your background.


Window/Duplicate twice. 

Close your original tube and shrink one of the copy’s to your clipboard.

With the remaining open tube, Layer/Add new Raster layer

Flood fill with your chosen background color

Layers/Send to Bottom

Layers/Merge/Merge all flatten


Effects/Plugins/Simple/Quick Tile 


Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur set at 20


Effects/Distortion/Pixelate set at 15


Effects/Plugins/FunHouse/ZigZaggerate


Pick your pattern with the eyedropper tool

Create a New Image, 1024 X the height of your tube.

Flood fill   your new image with your chosen Pattern


 

Effects/Plugins/Simple/4Way Average


Effects/Plugins/FM Tile Tools/Blend Emboss


Activate the remaining tube that is on your clipboard

  Edit/Paste as a new Selection and move to the far left of your background image.

While still selected, Effects/3-D Effects/Drop Shadow

  Selections/select none

  Add your watermark if desired.

 

Download

IMF File

©2006 Tutorials by Donna Ann

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