This is what we are going to make.

This is a background that my friend Kathy made.
I asked permission to write a tutorial for it.
She was kind enough to give it to me.
Thanks so much Kathy!

This tutorial is done in PSP 9.
It can be done in PSP 8.

Materials that you will need.

Paint Shop Pro
Get a trial version here

You will need FM Tile Tools.
You can get the demo version here.

I don't know if the demo has Blend Emboss.
You can do the tutorial with out it,
it will be very smilar.

You will need Simple Filters, get them here.

You will need is my gold fill pattern.
You can get that here.

Drag this arrow to keep track of where you are.



Alrighty then we are ready to start the
tutorial now that we have all the things
required to make this background!

1) Open a 200 x 200 transparent canvas.

2) Choose a dark color in your foreground palette.
I am using #2d553c.

3) Put the gold_pattern in your background palette.

4) Flood fill your canvas with your chosen colour.

5) Click the little arrows between your palettes
to make the gold_pattern you foreground colour.

6) Go to paint brush and pick "line vertical".
In the tool options set it up like this:

Size: 302
Hardness: 50
Step: 10
Density: 100
Thickness: 1
Rotation: 45
Opacity: 100
Blend: Normal
Last two unchecked



7) Go to View/Palettes/Brush Varience.



Set it up as shown above.
The word is "normal" in all the boxes.

8) With your gold bar do some lines across your
canvas and do it just like this if you want your
background tile to look like this one.

If you place them differently, the tile will turn
out differently. That is the fun of this tut.




9) Go to Image/Rotate/Rotate Clockwise 90.

10) In the tool options change the line thickness to "2".

11) Now add the wider bars exactly as shown below.



12) If you have FM Tile Tools/Emboss, do that now.
Go to Effects/FM tile Tools/ Emboss.



13) Now go to Effects/Simple/Quick tile.



That is it, you are done!

Hope that you had fun!

Here are a few others that I have done.





If you have any questions, email me.

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