A ARTE DE GUACIRA SAMPAIO ROCHA 2008

Creating a lot of backgrounds

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You will need Paint Shop Pro and of the program 20/20 for this exercise. If you are tired from those backs with all that basic and always repeated colors, be happy: we are going to create several standard textures, with barely some mouse clicks, to be used in backgrounds and in the making up of your PSP images and graphics.

Follow the steps:

1
Open an image (250 x 250), white, 24 bits.

2
Fill the image with a color of your preference - light colors result in better effects.

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3
Click Effects/Noise/Add and apply 95% - Random.

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4
Click Effects/Geometric Effects/Wind and apply the configurations:

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5
Click Image/Rotate/Right/90° and apply.

6
Click again on Effects/Geometric Effects/Wind and apply the same previous configurations. You will rest with a similar image as this one (optionally, at this point, you already has a very stimulating ready for use pattern - it is enough to go straight to the item "9" to eliminate the image borders and define some more suitable and smaller dimensions for a pattern like this - do that, reserve, and returns to the previous image to continue with this exercise):

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click the image
to see the tile applied, at this time


7
Click on Effects/Geometric Effects/Pixelate and apply as shown on the screen below.

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8
The obtained result will be extremely light, quite imperceptible. To give the image more definition, and bring it up, click several and continued times on Effects/Sharpen/Sharpen More. To obtain the below result apply the effect four continued times.

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9
With the Selection/Rectangle tool, find an area for cut inside the image to define a tile - and click on Image/Crop to Selection.

10
Save the resultant tile and bring it to the 20/20 program to carry out a Muted Background. Take a look bellow to see the resultant tile, worked individually, and click the image to know how it looks like after applied:

ladrilho

And here, a bit more samples of how you will be able to obtain patterns simply modifying its initial fill colors, and impressing to it some other image treatment modifications, under the 20/20 program, as by the use of the "Invert" command and "transparency". Fill your initial canvas with "gradients" to obtain very interesting results... and do not forget the plugins, naturally found in Paint Shop Pro. Well... but that is another history...
Click the images to see them applied.

tile 1
tile 2
tile 3
tile 4
tile 5
tile 6
tile 7
1
2 3 4 5 6 7
             
tile 8 tile 9          
8 9          

 

Now, it is up to your imagination!

If you need help, just let me know.

Have fun!

Guacira Sampaio Rocha
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