ZIGGY STRIPE
BACKGROUND
TUTORIAL
by
Donna Ann
2004
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Needed: PSP8
Tube of your choice
Filters:
Simple/Quick Tile/Diamonds/4-Way Average
FM Tile Tools/Blend Emboss/Seamless
Fun House/ZigZaggerate
You can find the filters
Pick a color for background with your eyedropper
tool
Layers/New Raster Layer Flood Fill
Layers/Arrange/Send to Bottom Layers/Merge/Merge all flatten
Your tube should now resemble a graphic as
shown next.
![]() Window Duplicate. Shrink one image. ( you can also use a blank image and flood fill it with a gradient here) On the active image, do the following:
Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur with the radius set at 20
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![]() Effects/Plugins/Simple/Quick Tile
![]() Effects/Plugins/Simple/Diamonds ![]() Effects/Plugins/Simple/4-Way Average ![]() Effects/Plugins/Fun House/ZigZaggerate set at 120/60 ![]() ![]() Effects/Plugins/FM Tile Tools/Blend Emboss as follows:
![]() Effects/Plugins/FM Tile Tools/Seamless, Vertical CHECKED
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Effects/Plugins/FM Tile Tools/Seamless, Vertical UN-CHECKED
![]() Pick this pattern in your Materials Box.
![]() Make a new image 1024 X the height of your tube/graphic Flood Fill
Activate your remaining image that you had put on your clipboard. If desired, add a mask or decorate it the way you want to appear on your letter. In this example I used a mask, then did another seamless tile top and bottom. Merge all layers flat. Edit/Copy this image
Paste this image on to your 1024 X H
background.
Move to the left side.
Apply drop shadow if desired.
Selections/Select none
Add your watermark
Save for assembly in Letter Creator
©2006 Tutorials by Donna Ann
http://www.davose.com
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