SEAMLESS TILES IN PSP

Paint Shop Pro Image Tutorials | Submited Dec 28, 2007

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Seamless Tiles for Backgrounds

Making seamless tiles to use as web backgrounds, layout backgrounds etc, in Paintshop Pro is amazingly easy. We will make a background tile using this image.



1. Open the graphic and make a duplicate copy (Shift D). You can now close the original graphic.

2. Go to Effects > Image Effects > Seamless Tiling.



3. A window will open up - if you check the section marked Show Tiling Preview another smaller window will open up.



The settings shown above, and those shown in the second example at the end of this tutorial, are the settings I use most of the time (depends on the image I'm using). To me these two settings give a better overall effect. [Note: if you haven't used seamless tiling before it will show the default settings].

4. If you like what the preview image is showing click OK and SAVE your tile.

This is what my tile looks like used as a background.



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This is what it would have looked like if I hadn't converted the image into a seamless tile.


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It is a good idea to make sure that the Tiling Preview is checked, because you can easily see how the tile looks each time you change the settings, and you can get a good idea what the overall effect will look like. Here are a few examples - look at the settings for each one.







Good luck