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Tips and Tricks : Free program to make seamless tiles
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From: MSN Nicknamekritiyas  (Original Message)Sent: 4/4/2006 8:48 PM
Here is a free program and tutorial from Buck19371.... thank you Buck
Seems like it might be fun give it a try and share your tiles with us....Puss
 
 
 
Here is a fun way to make your own seamless tiled backgrounds for your page. You need to start with an image that some intrest to it. for my example i will use this picture of a orange rose in a vase. but I wont use the vase part at all. for my purpose I will use a small portion of the roses. you need to be familiar with your picture editing program. I use picture it 9. you can also use photoimpact or even paint that came with your computer.  Open up your pic in your program and select an area to be cropped out. I will only use a portion of the roses as you can see in this pic.  save this in a folder on your computer. I have a folder on my desktop for this purpose. Now comes the fun stuff! you will need to download a program called 20 20 background maker it is free. 
   After it is downloaded and installed, open it up. you will notice that it only takes up a small section at the top of your screen. Click file, open and open up your saved cropped image. Now see the tabs at the top? Click the one that says image. Now we want the second icon from the right called MUTED BACKGROUNDS. click on it. Another window opens up. It is called ( Muted Backgrounds effect.)  You should see a sample of your cropped image in the center  Notice the slider thingie at the Bottom? That will fade out your image if you desire. This sometimes makes a nice effect if you have a particularly strong image and want to tone it down a bit. Slide it to the left and see what effect it has on your pic. Now when you are happy with it click on preview and it will give you a preview of your BACKGROUND if your happy with the way the background looks then (CLICK APPLY)go to file and Click on save as to your folder that you made or put it to where you can get to it whenever your ready to use it. Here is a sample of the rose B/G that I made I put it in its own table.

                                                                   

 

 
I hope you have as much fun with this as i have.  Buck




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