1. Go to your easy palette, and
drag leaf 1 to the workspace of pi. This will cause it to open in
its own canvas.
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2. Press the space bar so that the
white background is selected. Go to edit/fill and fill with black.
Go to the color tab, and change the color to black. Press ok.
3. Click on the leaf. Go to edit/fill
again, and fill the leaf with white. Right click and merge all. Go
to format/image size. Make sure there is a check beside "Keep aspect
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4. Go to
format/expand canvas. Click beside expand sides equally, and set the
expand color to black. Enter 10 into the first field. All the other
fields will also fill in with 10. Click ok.
5. Go to file/save as. Save the file as a
windows bitmap. If you are new, click the
drop down arrow beside files of type and change the type to
bitmap. Save this file somewhere where it will be safe
from accidental deleting or moving. I used my Photo Impact folder I
created to store all my very important images.
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6. Open a new white canvas. Keep the
dimensions small because the creative painting effect will take much
longer on large images. I used 150 X 150. |
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7. Go to effect/creative/painting.
Find the preset that looks like clouds, number 47. Click the load
button. Browse to find the folder where you saved your bitmap,
select it, and click ok.  |
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8. The stroke colors and background
colors will determine the colors of your tile. You can leave the
colors on the default or you can modify them. To modify simply click
on the color swatch. Choose a light color for the stroke color and a
matching color for the background color. The less contrast between
your two colors the better a tile it will make for a web page
background.
Place a
check in front of tile so your new tile will be seamless.
Click Ok! Your tile is
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| Notes: Version 5 and 6 users will use
format/dimensions instead of format/image size, and expand canvas is
under edit instead of under format.
Other notes: Advanced users may want
to use a effect/special/monochrome on the image instead of simply
filling it with white. You may need to then lighten the image you
use. This will cause the image to retain its shading instead of
simply painting the outline of the image. Here is an example I made
using flower 2. |
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