Country Plaid Backgrounds, a Quick Tutorial
Materials
- Paint Shop Pro Program level 6 or 7
Lets Begin:
**Most of my background tutorials are quick and simple. This Background only requires your program. This plaid background was created from this tutorial.**
Open a new image 100 x 100 pixels transparent background, 16.7 mill colors.
Select a color that you want to use for your plaid. Place this color as your background color. Go to your color palette and choose a color of the same hue but a lighter value for your foreground color.
Flood fill your canvas with the background color by right clicking on your mouse button. I created my plaid to match some fall color schemes and chose #F3b48b as my foreground color and #f8d9bd as my background.
Go to your draw tool. Change the settings as follows: Type single line, width 14, solid line, antialias and vector checked.
Following the cursor position, which are the numbers that appear in the left bottom corner of your program, go to your canvas. Go to position 30,0 or 30,1. Holding the shift key, draw a line straight down your canvas to 30,100. Release. Now because we have drawn this as a vector we can stretch the height if the line does not go right to the top. When you have checked this, go to your layer palette and change this layer to rastor.
Duplicate this layer.
Image, mirror this layer. You now have two bars positioned equally.
Go to your draw tool and change the width to two.
Draw another line starting at 19,0. Adjust the top if necessary.
Convert to rastor.
Duplicate. Image mirror.
Duplicate again. Place your cursor over this bar, at 80,53. Move the bar holding your left mouse key until the numbers read 58,53.
Duplicate this layer and image, mirror it.
Go to your layer palette, turn off layer one. The one you flood filled. Click on any other layer and merge visable the remaining layers.
Duplicate this layer. Then image rotate 90 to the left.
Turn the visability back on on layer one. Reduce the opacity on both of the merged layers to 75. Merge all flatten.
Effect, noise, add at 7% uniform.
You are done! Save your tiles in a seperate file folder for future use. Not only are these tiles applicable as backgrounds but they can also be used as patterns in my other tutorials. Play, and experiment and most of all, have fun!
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