The inspiration for this background came
from the fact that I wasn't in the mood to do anything special, so I
spent the afternoon playing with filters. I had downloaded the VM
Filters and hadn't really done too much with them, so I checked out
what was there, and when I tried this one, I stopped and thought
"This is something I really like." I hope you will too. What you
will be making is the background that you see here on this page.
What You Will Need to Start ...PSP 6
or 7 (this was done in 6)... Visit JASC to download a free
trial ...VM Filter - Experimental that you can download here... ...
Mura Seamless Tile Filter that you can download here...
Open
a new image 150 by 150 in black, 16mil colours. Choose white and
a nice shade of blue as your two colours to work with. Click on the
airbrush tool and use these settings.
Airbrush a couple of quick shots of white and then
the blue. Here is what mine looked like.
Go
to effects - VM Experimental and choose "needles and pins". When the
window opens just change the top setting only to the far right and
leave the others as the default settings. Then click to
apply.
Go to image - rotate and use these
settings.
Then go to image - filters - Mura Seamless and when
the window opens, just click on the defaults. I have given the
screen shot just in case there is anything different when your
filter opens.
And that's it. You have what I consider a unique
and interesting background tile.
I have displayed below a few more samples for you
to see. The next three are all done using white and another colour.
Each will look different depending on how you use your spray can at
the beginning.
These next three were done slightly differently. I
love using my Bladepro and the glitter settings. When I opened the
black image, I added a new layer and sprayed white. Then I used a
bladepro glitter setting. Then I applied another layer and sprayed
white again. Then I applied another bladepro glitter setting. Then I
merged all three layers and then went to Experimental - needles and
pins.
The first one on the left used Dee's copper
shimmer, the one in the middle used Dee's blue and brass shimmers,
and the one on the end used the same gold shimmer on both
layers.
Click
here to see a full page example.
If you have any
problems or need further explanations, please feel free to email me
here
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This
tutorial was posted at the site of "P. Ann's Place" Nov.12,2001 and
written by P. Sherman. All I ask is that you do not claim it as your
own.
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