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Assembling a
Seamless Tile
This tutorial was written for PSP7 but I have added instruction for PSP8 where needed. Before you go any further you will need to visit Tephra's site to make the tubes - Tephra's Tuts. This tut will use a tube made by following Tephra's drilled glass bead and uses the golden knot tube that she offers on her Knotted Bead Strand page. You do not have to use the drilled bead, any bead or pearl will work. Grab a coffee, chase the kids to bed and get your thinking head on, you're going to need it :o) Please do not follow this exactly, I am trying to show you the method for tiling rather than the actual image.
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Open a new image, 300x400 with a transparent
background. Create a new layer named guide. Null the
foreground and set the background to solid fill, the
colour is not important. With the preset shapes
tool, draw an ellipse in the center of your canvas.
This circle is going to be your guide for the bead layer. If you feel the need, with the draw tool, single line, foreground black draw a line down the center of your guide so that you can judge where the first bead is and, hopefully the placement of the last bead. |
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Create a new layer called bead. With the tube tool
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select the drilled bead tube made from Tephra's tut.
I set mine to a scale of 70, step 48. These settings
may not be suitable for yours, you'll just have to
play to find the right adjustment. Because the tube
uses the angular selection mode it will change
direction with the flow of your curser, have a play
to see what it does and how it flows.
I began with a left to right motion until the first bead appeared and then followed the curve of the guide, working very slowly and finishing with a right to left motion getting the last bead as close to the line as I could trying to match the placement as that of the top bead. You may need to use the undo tool and do this several times before you are happy with the placement of this last bead. |
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Copy and paste as a new image, close the other image. Image, canvas size. We are going to double the canvas height. The dialogue window gives you the current size, keep the width the same but double the height. Uncheck center image horizontally, change the top amount to 0, this will double the height of your canvas but make it so the image is at the top of the canvas. Make a note of the current height. Ctrl+A, Ctrl+F, double click the selection tool
PSP8 - use the selection tool then click Create Selection From, Current Selection
Then click custom selection
Check use current selection as default then change the top to that of the height of the original image and the bottom to that of the height of the current image, this will select the bottom, empty half of the canvas.
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Edit, paste into selection. You should now have the
beads repeated in the bottom half of the image.
Create a new layer. With the tube tool select Teph's
golden knot, place a knot in between each bead.
Merge layers visible.
If you want to add a drop shadow now is the time to do it. If you add a drop shadow after the next step the shadow will not tile correctly. Image, canvas size, change the height back to that of the original image, checking center image horizontally. Your image should now tile vertically. Marge layers visible and save in PSP format for future use
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To test it, open a new image same width as your bead
image but 2 or 3 times the height. With the flood
fill tool, set to pattern, click the pattern swatch
with the ink dropper. This will open the pattern
fill dialogue box, click the drop down arrow and
scroll to the top to find your beaded image. Fill at
100%, angle 0.
If the image doesn't tile then, I'm sorry to say, you need to go back and make sure you have followed the steps correctly. |
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check surround current selection then check custom
size and position. Change the top to that of the
height of the original image
