Quick Textured Panel Tiles

 


To work this Tutorial you will need: Paint Shop Pro, Crescent Moon plugin filters, Filter Factory Gallery G plugin filters and Simple filters.

Lets get started:

Open a new image 150x150 transparent, floodfill with your desired colour.

Next go Effects/Texture effects/Fine Leather and apply with these settings, Colour #E0E0E0, Angle 30, Blur 40, Number of Furrows 40, Length of Furrows 4, Transparency 250.

Effects/Plugin Filters/Filter Factory Gallery G/Panel Stripes, accept the default setting.

Effects/Plugin Filters/Crescent Moon/Tri Mirror Tile, accept the default setting.

Shift+D to Duplicate your tile.

File/Save as/ name your tile.jpg and save, close this tile, and return to your original tile to get some more mileage out of it.

In your layer palette, duplicate this Layer and lower the opacity to 50%. Image/rotate 90 degrees to the left.

Shift+D to Duplicate your tile.

Layers/Merge/merge all flatten.

File/Save as/ name your tile.jpg and save, close this tile, and return to your original tile to get yet more mileage out of it.

Effects/Plugin Filters/Simple/Four Way Average.

Shift+D to Duplicate your tile, Effects/Sharpen/Sharpen.

Layers/Merge/merge all flatten.

File/Save as/ name your tile.jpg and save, close this tile, and return to your original tile to get yet more mileage out of it.

Undo the last step where you applied the Four Way Average filter and go Effects/Plugin Filters/Simple/Pizza Slice Mirror, Effects/Sharpen/Sharpen.

Layers/Merge/merge all flatten.

File/Save as/ name your tile.jpg and save.

To test how your new tiles fill, open a new Image 600x600 transparent, for your foreground select pattern and load your tile as a pattern, Scale 100, Angle 0, now floodfill the new image with your pattern to see how it tiles, after viewing you can close this image no need to save.

Thank you for trying this Tutorial.




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