SEAMLESS TILING IN PSP8

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JASC has made seamless tiling effortless in PSP8, and I greatly appreciate their efforts. There have been several questions in the Newsgroup as to how Seamless Tiling works. There are several people that aren't involved in the Newsgroups or don't have the time to read all of the posts, I write this tutorial for you. ~smiles~

Seamless tiling is used for many things, such as backgrounds for web pages, patterns and textures. This tutorial will show you the basics of V8's seamless tiling and how to mute your tile, as shown in the example above.

Remember, my tutorials are only guidelines to help you accomplish a certain creation. Please feel free to be inventive and take whatever liberties you would like. I encourage each of you to do your "own thing" and make your creation yours!

Screenshots are resized and compressed for faster loading.

This tutorial is written in and for PSP8 and assumes you have a working knowledge of PSP. This tutorial cannot be done in PSP7.

YOU WILL NEED:
JASC's PSP8 (30 day free trial) - You can get it HERE
A graphic - The graphic I used is a photograph of a Dahlia taken by my friend, Irene. If you would like to use the Dahlia, please right click on the graphic and save it to your hard drive.

Step 1:
Open the graphic that you would like to use. Go to Window-->Duplicate (Shift+D) to make a copy of your graphic. Close the original graphic. The reason I do this is in case I want to use the graphic again and forget to change the name when saving.

Step 2:
Go to Effects-->Image Effects-->Seamless Tiling. A new window will open. If you haven't used Seamless Tiling before it will show the default settings.

If you wish to use the default settings click OK and this is how your graphic will now look.

Let's explore some of the options that are available to you. First you can view what options you are trying out by checking the Show Tiling Preview.

A new window will appear. Move that window to the left of your dialog box and zoom down to about 40-50%. You can click each of the methods, directions, corner styles and settings and watch how it will look.

The best tiling method depends on the content of your graphic and how you want it to look. I personally like the Corner method, however the Edge and Mirror can also be useful. The corner tiling method is shown above, below are screenshots showing the edge and mirror tiling methods.

Edge

Mirror

Direction can be either horizontal, vertical, or bidirectional. Normally you will want to use the bidirectional mode as this will render the tiling seamless at top and bottom and right and left. When doing a web page using a table cell you may wish to tile either vertically (top to bottom) or horizontally (left to right). Examples are shown below.

Vertical

Horizontal

Next is the corner style, either linear or curved. Once again it depends on your graphic that you are using. It's a subtle difference on this particular graphic, however I did use the linear.

Linear

Curved

You can adjust the offsets to your taste. Below are some examples with the horizontal and vertical offsets set at Minus 33, Plus 33, and the horizontal at plus 33 and the vertical at Minus 33. Experiment and have fun!

Minus 33 offsets

Plus 33 offsets

Horizontal Plus 33; Vertical Minus 33

Step 3:
After you have all of your settings the way you want your seamless tile to look, click OK and save. To make your tile muted, go to Layers-->New Raster Layer. Set your foreground material palette to White and Floodfill this layer. Lower the opacity to the muted setting you like. I set mine to 78%.

Go to Layers-->Merge-->Merge Flatten. You can now save this as a .jpg for websites or save it as a .pspimage in your MyPSP8Folders/Patterns Folder. You can then access your pattern from the Material palette under Patterns.

I hope this has helped you understand the Seamless Tiling Method in PSP8 a little better.

If you have any problems, comments or questions please do not hesitate to E-mail me.

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