Sinedot Seamless Muted Background

As you can tell I am really enjoying the Sinedot plug-in filter. There are so many things you can do with it. As I was posting a result in one of my groups I made a background with Sinedot and thought I would share with you how to do this. It's quite easy when you use the 20-20 plug-in filter also ~~ not only does 20-20 make it seamless for you but you can mute it at the same time.

This tutorial is written in and for PSP Version 7 and assumes you have a working knowledge of PSP at an intermediate level. I am sure this can easily be done in Version 6 with a few adjustments in paths but I have only used Version 7 so I can't make promises *S*

You will need:

JASC's PSP (30 day free trial)- You can get it HERE
DragonFly's Sinedot Filter - You can get it HERE
** Unzip into your plug-ins folder
20/20 - You can get it HERE

Step 1:
Open a new image 250 x 250, 16 million colors, transparent background. Set your foreground color to a medium-dark color, it will lighten up considerably when you mute it. I used #CF6A7A. Naturally you can use a gradient of your choice also. Floodfill your image.

Step 2:
Go to Effects-->Plugins-->Dragonfly-->Sinedot. You can play around with the numbers to get the effect you would like or you can use the turbulence preset as I did for this tutorial. Make sure the inverse is unchecked so you will get the nice white swirls.

Step 3:
Save your image as a .jpg file and we will be bringing it into 20/20. This is what mine looked like before 20/20.

Step 4:
Open 20/20 and go to File-->Open. Find the image you saved and bring it up.

Step 5:
Open Image and it will bring you to another toolbar where you can select Seamless Tile.

Click on Seamless Tile and it will convert it before your very eyes.

Step 6:
Now we want to make it muted so it's not so hard to view on the eyes. Here is where you click to make it muted. And this is what you will now see after clicking it on.

You can adjust the opacity to your liking. Mine is set at 64% but play around with it and see what you like best. Then press apply.

Step 7:
Now all you have to do is save it and you will be all set to have your own background for your Website or to use as stationary in your email. Go to File-->SaveAs and name your background. Make sure you UNcheck the append to existing file in case you want to keep your original image for another use.

I hope that you enjoyed this tutorial as much as I enjoyed making it for you. Many thanks to Elkay, Anneli, and Randie for testing this tutorial.

Here are some of the two more backgrounds that I have created using this method.

 

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