Easy Tiles
Materials needed: PSP 8 - get it here or If you are using PSP 7, you will need the Simple Quick Tile filter, available here There are so many ways to make tiles in PSP - here are a couple that I have discovered by playing around. These are just guides - feel free to play around and experiment! Pretty Pastels 1. Open a new image 100 x 100 2. Flood fill with a colour of yoru choice, I used #FFEFF1. Add a new layer and set the foreground to another colour - I am using #D1E5F9. Click on your paintbrush tool and use the following settings:
Draw some lines as shown:
3. Adjust--->Add/Remove Noise--->Add Noise. Check Uniform and use whatever % you want - changing it changes the look of the tile. For this one, I have used 50%. 4. Effects--->Reflection Effects--->Kaleidoscope. Play around with the settings until you get something you like. For illustration purposes, click here to see the settings I used), but yours will not look the same because it all depends on the way you painted your lines.
5. Merge the layers (Layers--->Merge-->Merge All). Effects--->Image Effects--->Seamless Tiling. Click here for the settings. If you are using PSP 7, use the Simple Quick Tile filter. You now have a seamless tile. You can get different looks by using differing %'s in the Add noise step and by repeating the Add Noise a time or two. Play around with it and see what you come up with! Here are some more I did:
Below are two I did at 200 x 200, the one on the left, I did with a white background and pink brush, and the one on the right I used a green background and just added noise at 100% instead of painting lines.
 
Method #2 1. Open a new image 200x200. Flood fill with colour #1. Add new layer and flood fill with colour #2. I used #FFCBFF and #B248AC, respectively. 2. On your top layer, click on your Eraser brush set to Marble 2 and size of your choice.
If you are using PSP 7, then click on the brush types icon on your tool options palette, then on Custom, then choose a brush:
 
Click all over your canvas, I clicked more than once in each spot
Merge your layers. 3. Here are the effects I used, all are under Effects--->Reflection Effects. First I did pattern, click here for the settings I used (but feel free to use your own). You can use this as a tile if you want, or you can do more to it. Next, I used Feedback, click here for my settings. Thirdly, I used Rotating Mirror, click here for the settings and lastly, Pattern again, same settings. Here's what I ended up with:
This is a seamless tile, you do not need to do anything to it to make it seamless. 4. If you want to tone the colour down a bit, here's how to mute it: add a new layer and flood fill with a colour, you can use white or a colour from your tile. Slide the opacity bar on the layer down to mute - how far depends on personal preference. The tile on the left below I used the dark colour from my image and the one on the right I used white. Both have an opacity of 74.
 
Merge your layers and you have your tile. There are endless possibilities for these, you can use various combinations of the effects and different eraser brushes to get different looks. Play around and see what you come up with!
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