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Welcome to Graphic Distractions.
Have to give credit where it is due and say
that the beginning of this idea came from doing Bonnie Hayler's
tutorial "Ornate Mask Frame" which can be found here. Thank you
Bonnie for the inspiration.
Supplies ... Paint Shop Pro 7. This tutorial will hopefully
explain how one can create lovely textures from photos and
graphics using Paint Shop Pro 7, although I'm sure it can be done
in 6 as well.
FM Tile Tools.It will need to be unzipped and placed in the plug
ins folder for
Paint Shop Pro. The path is normally C:\Program Files\Jasc
Software Inc\Paint Shop Pro 7\Plugins. (note: some of the images
for this tutorial were resized slightly for faster loading
time)
Have found that photos of roses work the best for this .. they
seem to have a lot more depth and play on lights and shadows, and
when used as a texture they give a very realistic look. Any
graphic or photo can be done this way .. the possibilities are
endless. Have done feathers, leaves, other types of flowers, and
have even done people.
One thing to remember is that light comes forward and dark
retreats so one might want to try and find images that have a
balance of light and dark. Too much of one and the texture will
look flat and crystallized .. which is fine if that is the effect
you are wishing to achieve.
This is the image we will be using for this tutorial (it has not
been resized) .. please right click and save it to your hard
drive.
1). Open the image provided in Paint Shop.
2). you will see there are a lot of dark, fairly empty spaces in
the corners. If one wishes the texture to have a loose spaced
appearance this would be excellent .. but for this tutorial we
are going to crop that out. Click on your crop tool and crop the
image fairly close to the rose edges.
The reason for cropping closely is that we do not want the image
to become distorted when it is made into a seamless tile later in
the tutorial.
3). The image is beautiful as is ... but a bit too large for what
we are creating. Go to Image/Resize and reduce to 60% of the
original. Click ok. It is important to remember that the size one
saves the texture at will be the size it will appear when used on
a image. This can be very helpful because it gives one a fairly
good idea what it will look like when used as a texture. If this
is not a size that appeals to you .. step three would be the best
time to resize it to your wishes
4). Now we need to get back the depth that resizing took away. Go
to Effects/Sharpen/UnsharpMask and use these settings. Click
ok.
5). Next we will make the image
seamless so that we will not have that annoying line in our
texture. Go to Effects/Plug-in Filters/FM Tile Tools/ Seamless
Tile and use these settings ..
6). Again use the seamless filter ..
this time making sure that the vertical is checked .. click ok.
The image should now look like this ..
7). Now for the texture part. Go to Effects/Plug-in Filters/FM
Tile Tools/Blend Emboss .. use these settings .. and click
ok
8). Repeat step 7, sending the image through blend emboss again
using the same settings.
9). It is necessary to save the texture to the proper folder in
order to use it as intended. Go to File/Save As .. when the box
pops up you will need to find on your computer where the Paint
Shop Textures are kept. This is usually C:/Program Files/Jasc
Software Inc/Paint Shop Pro 7/Textures. It is extremely important
that the image be saved as a BMP or it will not work. Now once
you have saved it as a texture, you can close your image. That is
all there is to it.
Lets try it out ..
1). Open a new image 400x400 Transparent
2). In the Styles Palette, pick a background color that you like.
For this tutorial i am using #665A34.
3). using your flood fill tool, left click and flood the new
image with color
4). Now pick a light color as your foreground color. For this
tutorial i am using #FFF3C6
5). Below the Style Palette is the Texture Palette .. click on
the small arrow on the left side to open the texture selection
box. Find the texture that you just saved in the pop up box that
will appear. Do not worry if it looks all black .. it is a gray
scale image that has been reduced to thumb nail size for the
selection box and because our image was dark to begin with .. it
is expected.
6). We will use the AirBrush Tool to apply this effect. The
settings are a matter of personal preferences, depending on the
effect one wishes to achieve, but for this tutorial we will use
these settings .. Shape - Round, Size - 200, Hardness - 0,
Opacity - 70, Step - 25, Density - 100
7). Right click on your image and slowly spray paint the texture
on to the brown background. A single rose can be placed by
clicking repeatedly .. or the entire surface can be covered ..
depending on the look one is going for.
8). Now simply embellish to your liking.
I hope that you enjoy your stay, and thank you for visiting Graphic Distractions.