first off you will need to download the required goodies to do this tutorial. That will include the mask, image and filters. You may download those here.
You can go here and download 20/20
http://www.hotfreeware.com/2020/download.htm
To start out you need to place the filters in your psp plugin folder.
Then open psp. Once it's loaded then open the image of choice or the one
included in the zip.
Now you need to resize the image to a suitable size for your background. Now press ctrl and D at the same time to made a copy.. Once your happy with that, then click on effects, scroll down to your plugins and find Brush Strokes, then click on Sprayed Strokes. The menu will look something like this.
Now here I did'nt do any particular setting I just played a little with the settings. You be the judge as you know what you like and don't like. Now click okay. Then go to image, flip. It will now look like this.
Now, you will repeat the steps using the filter to achieve this.
Now, your done with that filter you just need to go back to image, flip one more time. At this point click on edit copy to, then open 20/20 and click on edit past as new image. Now click on image, seamless tile. Now, if you want it lighter then go up to image again but this time click on mute and adjust to your likings. Your image will now look like this.
At this point the background is done unless you want to add texture to it. Set that aside now and go back to the original. Resize
it to be at least 300 pixils high. Then click on mask, load from disk.
This is what you should see now.
Now your going to click on mask again this time click invert and it will look something like this.
Now open a new transparent image, 300 high by 1024 wide. Highlight the image with the mask, then click on edit, copy. The highlight the transparent image and click on edit past as new layer. Adjust it to the left side of the transparent image. It will look like this.
I know I did this backwards (lol) but it won't make much difference. Now go to your layers pallete and click on layer 1. That is the transparent layer. at this point you need to activate the tiled image. For psp 6 click the flood fill tool, then go to your tool pallatte. Click on fill style and change it to pattern.
For psp7 users click on the little black triangle located on this pallete
Now it will open up and give you the choice (from left to right) solid fill, gradient fill, texture fill, and no fill. You want to chose the third from the left. Now click in the center where you see my purple arrow. A new window will pop up that looks like this.
Now you need to click on the little black arrow next to the texture above which will open several to chose from. Scroll all the way to the top and look for the tile you made earlier. Once you find it click on it and then click ok. Now your ready to flood fill the background. Go to your flood fill tool and go to your background and fill it in. It should now look like this. It won't be as dark as this one if you muted the tile in 20/20 earlier. Now you can go to your layers palette and right click on any layer and merge all. You will now need to open FM tile tools in your plugin options and apply the seamless tile vertically. If you don't have that let me know and I will find out where to get as I don't know right off hand.
I hope I did'nt leave anything out. If I did and you are having trouble completing this tut then feel free to email me or catch me on one of the mail groups.
