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Seamless Tiles
Seamless
tiles can be used to flood fill any selection, or be set
as the fill (background) material for text and vector
shapes. All you have to do is have your pattern
tile open in PSP and then set the foreground material to
pattern, click the material box and then set it to your
pattern tile, which will be at the top of the list.
If you have PSP 8 or higher, you can use the built in
Seamless Tile filter. If you have an earlier
version, you can use Simple Filters and get similar, but not identical seamless
effects.
Other
filters can create seamless effects too.... MuRa's
Copies, Eye Candy 4000 Marble and many others.
Seamless
tiles are usually between 100 and 200 pixels square, but
if you are using them as a fill in PSP you can scale
them down if you want the pattern smaller.
The
PSP Seamless Tiling filter (Corner Tiling Method) or
Simple Filters Quick Tile can be used to turn any square
into a seamless tile. You could even keep it as
simple as adding a tube in the center of a colored
background and then applying one or other of these
filters.
MuRa's
Pole Transform and MuRa's Copies - both available HERE
They are the two on the right of the block of 4.
You
can download the Simple Filters set from HERE
Example
1
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Create
a new image 150 x 150 pixels, transparent
background, raster.
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Click
on the Flood Fill tool
Match Mode = None
Blend Mode = Normal
Opacity = 100
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up the materials pallet.....
Set
the foreground colour to a color of your choice
and set the material type to gradient.
Set
the background color to white or a very pale shade
of your chosen color.
Click
the foreground material block (the gradient) and
set the following options for the gradient.
Gradient
= Foreground - Background
Style = Radial
Angle = 0
Repeats = 5
Horizontal = 50
Vertical = 50
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| Fill
the canvas (image) with the gradient.
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Effects,
Image Effects, Seamless Tiling
Tick
the Show Tiling Preview box
Tiling
Method = Corner
Direction = Biderectional
Horizontal Offset = 0
Vertical Offset = 0
Transition = 0 to 50
Corner Style = Linear or curved
(whichever effect you prefer)
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Simple
Filters - Quick Tile |
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Example
2 - Spirals
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Create
a new image 150 x 150 pixels, transparent
background, raster.
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Click
on the Flood Fill tool
Match Mode = None
Blend Mode = Normal
Opacity = 100
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| Set
up the materials pallet.....
Set
the foreground colour to a color of your choice
and set the material type to gradient.
Set
the background color to white or a very pale shade
of your chosen color.
Click
the foreground material block (the gradient) and
set the following options for the gradient.
Gradient
= Foreground - Background
Style = Linear
Angle = 45
Repeats = 7
Fill
the canvas with the gradient |
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Effects,
Distortion Effects, Polar Coordinates (PSP 8 or
higher)
Polar
to Rectangular
Edge mode = Repeat
If
you have PSP 7 or earlier you can get the same
effect using MuRa's Pole Transform using these
settings:
Y Start = 0
Y End = 200
Centre X = 100
Center Y = 100
Radius Start = 0
Radius End = 140
Angle = 0
Inverse = unticked
Fill Background = tick it and then untick it
Radius Mode = Normal (from the pull down list)
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Effects,
Image Effects, Seamless Tiling
Tiling
Method = Corner
Direction = Biderectional
Horizontal Offset = 0
Vertical Offset = 0
Transition = 0
Corner Style = Curved
Or
(if you have PSP 7 or lower) Simple Filters -
Quick Tile.
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| For
this effect make these changes after you have
filled the image with the gradient... |
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Use
MuRa's Pole Transform
Radius
Mode = Perspective (all the other setting as
above)
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| Simple
Filters - Blintz |
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Example
3 - Tubes
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| New
Image 150 x 150, Black background, Raster
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| Layers,
New Raster Layer
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| Click
on the tube tool, and select a tube from the pull
down list on the Options Pallet.
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| Set
the Scale to 50 (on the options pallet) and click
in the center of the canvas. The tube needs
to fill about 3/4 of the canvas. If its too
big or too small, undo, adjust the scale and try
again. Or you can use the deformation tool
to adjust size or move the tube.
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| Layers
menu, Merge, Merge All (flatten)
Effects,
Image Effects, Seamless Tiling
Tiling
Method = Corner
Direction = Biderectional
Horizontal Offset = 0
Vertical Offset = 0
Transition = 0
Corner Style = Curved
or
Simple Filters, Quick Tile |
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| Or...
Use
the Kaleidoscope effect on your tube before
applying the seamless tile effect to get something
like this... |
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See
how to use patterns to make frames and tags in Paint
Shop Pro HERE
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