This tutorial is on my . . .

 

20/20 PLAID BACKGROUND

 

The background tile shown here is the finished product.

 

 

First thing that I do is to open my image in 20/20.  I click on the Color select tab and choose 2 colors that match up with my image.  You would use your right click to change the  foreground (top) color and the  left click for the background (bottom) color change.  The foreground color will be the border-fade color.

 

 

After you have that part done, you need to click on the selections tab and choose the rectangle tool.  For the first border around the image, first click on the image tab, and then i usually click the border fade tab.  It is the icon next to the seemless tile one with the sunrising on it.   Making a natural fade into the image.

 

 

 

Next use your pointer and left click  to outline a small border around the image, when you let go, it will fill in with color.... i use no precise measurement, when i do the border fade, if i don't like it, i just click undo in the top left and redo it how i want it to look.

 

 

Click on the border fade again....

and then repeat this step.

 

 

One last border fade, and then trace around the image with a very thin strip of the colored border. 

 

 

When this border is tiled, it will be the center,

so make it smaller than the rest. 

 

 

Then just tile it for the plaid effect....

 

 

If you want to see how it will look full screen, click on

muted background and preview.  At this point i copy the emage from 20/30 and paste it into PSP where i apply the fm tile tools/saturation emboss on a low setting and then again fmtile tools/blend emboss on a low setting to make the details stand out....

 

Hope you like making this backgrounds. 

Try different types of borders around the image

for a little different look.

 

Hugs,

 

Karen

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