Mosaic Background Tutorial Written for PSP 8 (works for PSP 7, also) Please feel free to link to this tutorial, and/or print it out for your own personal use, but do not copy it in any way to put on-line, pass out, or re-write without my permission. Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this is purely coincidental. This tutorial was written March 14, 2004. Thank you, © Barb's Hideaway For this tutorial, you will need Jasc Paint Shop Pro. You can download a trial version here. You will also need Simple plug-in filter called Pizza Slice Mirror, available free here. (If you have trouble installing the plug-ins, please read here or here.) Step 1 Open a new image, 125 x 125 pixels, transparent, 16 million colors. Flood fill with your choice of color, I used #DB9861. Step 2 Select Effects > Noise > Add Noise. Adjust the settings to uniform, 75%, monochrome is unchecked. Select OK. Step 3 Select Effects > Texture Effects > Mosaic Antique. Adjust the settings to 25 columns and rows, tile diffusion=50, grout width=2, grout diffusion=50. Select OK. Step 4 To add a design and to make this a seamless tile, select Effects > Plugins > Simple > Pizza Slice Mirror. You're done! Save it as a .gif file and it's ready to use as a background for your web page or stationery. Here are examples using different flood-fill colors and adjusting the percentage of noise: Your results will be slightly different because when you apply Noise, it's always a bit different. I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial. There are many tutorials using the mosaic texture effect. It's fun to see all the variations that can be made. There are other filters in the Simple Filters group which would give a different final design. The more you play with PSP, the more you will learn what you can do with it. Remember the Undo command, it's my best friend :-) If you have any questions or problems with the tutorial, please contact me at featherwatcher@hotmail.com. Click here to return to tutorial index This tutorial and all the graphics and html belong to me. Do not reprint anywhere else without my written permission. A link is allowed without permission. Whatever you create with the tutorial belongs to you! This page hosted by Get your own Free Home Page