Net Tiled Background Tutorial PSP8 and PSP9 version This tutorial shows how to make the net background tiles shown on this page. This tutorial was created 15th March 2003©Copyright Artwork by EssexGirl Updated for use with PSP9 5th March 2005 please do not copy it, or put it anywhere else without my written permission. *NOTE* Sometimes the links for filters change, it's difficult (and a lot of work) to keep changing them on individual pages, so I have created a page with links to filters and programs that I have used in my tutorials. That way it is easier for me, because when there are changes I will only have one page to update and hopefully better for you, because I'm less likely to miss a page out when doing the updates :) You will find links to filters/programs used in this tutorial Here the link will open in a new window Filters and programs used in this tutorial :- Paint Shop Pro Dragonfly's Sinedots II Materials :- There is a text file included in the zip, if you don't know where to place the items. My net tile.cfg Here some images have been made smaller to shorten file size

Step 1. The colours that I have used for my tiles are dark blue and white Feel free to substitute these with your own colour choices. Make your palette background colour #000080 (navy) and the foreground colour #FFFFFF (white) Open a new image 200 x 200 transparent and flood fill with the background colour. Add a new layer, then go to Effects...Plugin Effects...Dragonfly...Sinedots.... open the sg_net tile.cfg and choose 'challenge_Y' If you are new to sinedots and don't know how to open the .cfg file click HERE for more information Some presets use different 'blend' settings and it is important for this tutorial to make sure that the blend in the sinedots setting is set to 'screen' like this:- Go to Layers...Duplicate...then Go to Layers...Merge...Merge Down...

Step 2. Make a duplicate image (shift+D) minimise it. We will use this later, for our second tile. At the moment the sinedots image is pink. To change it to white (or your choice of colour), open the layers palette and click the padlock at the far right of the merged layer, it will turn blue. This will lock the transparency of the layer and protect the transparent areas while we flood fill. Flood fill with white(or your colour choice). When you have the layer flood filled in your choice of colour, click the padlock again to the unlock it's transparency.

Step 3. Go to Effects...3D Effects...Drop Shadow...use these settings Horizontal=2, Vertical=2, Opacity=50, Blur=1.1, colour=Black Go to Effects...Plugin Effects...Simple...Diamonds... *NOTE* For a couple of variations see step 6. Go to Layers...Merge all...then go to Image...Resize... make sure that the 'all layers' box is ticked and resize to the size you want your tile to be. Mine is 60 x 60. After resizing go to to Effects...Sharpen...and Sharpen.

Step 4. For the light coloured tile I used white for both the background and the sinedots image and used a coloured drop shadow to bring out the net pattern. Open up the duplicate tile that you minimised earlier. Make the background layer active and flood fill with white. Next, make the sinedots layer active, lock the transparency on the layer (the same as in step 2), flood fill with white, then lock the transparency. You won't be able to see the sinedots image for now, because it is the same colour as the background layer.

Step 5. Go to Effects...3D Effects...Drop Shadow... I changed the colour of the shadow to #000080 (navy) which is the same shade as my first tile's background colour. The other settings were the same as before. (Vertical=2, Horizontal=2, Opacity=50, Blur=1.1). Go to Effects...Plugin Effects...Simple...Diamonds... Merge all layers and resize the same as your first tile.

Step 6. VARIATION As a variation on this design you could add another step after applying Simple's 'Diamonds' in step 3 to make a more lacy tile. Here I applied Simple's 'Pizza Slice mirror' after the 'Diamonds'.

And for this one I applied Simple's 'Top Left Mirror' after the 'Diamonds'. There are lots of variations that you can add, experiment with different combinations, before and after the diamonds step and see what you can come up with.

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