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We are making this great background tile (center one). This was an unexpected surprise in Paint Shop Pro. Not that nasty "PSP has caused a general protection fault...so sorry but your hard work has gone bye-bye surprise" but the one where you go...."oh my!!! Look what I made...now how did I do that?" kind of surprise.

This is actually very easy to make and I bet by the time you finish this you'll be hooked making them LOL.

Here's what you'll need:
Paint Shop Pro (I'm using version 6 but it can easily be done in 7).
Fantastic Machine's Paint Engine Filter available HERE. (This is optional, you can use any kind of texture filter or none at all if you prefer). This is a free filter.
Simple Filter's "Pizza Slice Mirror" filter available HERE. This is also a free filter.
And you'll need my snowflake tube (did I mention that's what I started out making, snowflakes....ended up with lace LOL) Download the tube HERE.

OK, get your filters installed, place the tube in your tube folder and let's have some fun.




First let me say, the screen shots and the color codes are for this tile with a blue background, after I made a couple more tiles, I went back and colorized it to the beige color. I'll give you my settings at the end of the tutorial in case you would like this color background.

Step 1. Open a new image, 200x200, transparent background.

Step 2. Flood fill with solid color #A1B1D0, open Fantastic Machine's Paint Engine filters and use these settings: Again, this is an optional look.

Step 3. Add a new raster layer, click on the tube icon, Snowflakes_qc tub and change the settings to this:

Step 4. Make a pattern similar to this:

Not very pretty is it? Don't worry...it will be. Something I've found out through playing...I mean working.... on this, it's very hard to make the same thing twice. If it's not exactly the same as mine, it will still turn out gorgeous.

Step 5. Add a drop shadow with these settings:
Opacity = 62
Shadow Color = Black
Blur = 2.4
Vertical and Horizontal = 2

Step 6. Layers, merge visible.

Step 7. Load the Simple Filter's Pizza Slice Mirror and TA DA...... Lace!!!!!!!


To get this look for the tile, go to colorize with these settings: Hue and Saturation both set at 8

Here are some more examples. Change the color of the snowflakes and the background, change the size of the tube....have fun with it. There are a gazillion different combinations you can make.



I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial. Please email me with any questions or problems and I'll be happy to help.