
Trellis background made PsP 7
A simple tutorial how you can make your own
trellis-background with help of PsP7 and its effects..
The
page's background, trellis is made in two different yellow colors, but in tutorial I have
used "brown country" colors ,
#E89674 and #F7D9CD , but use colors that you like ..
Did
you know that if you right-click 
on Solid Color , you can see the Recent Colours dialog box and displays 10 basic colours
and the 10 most recently used colours ... ...
Begin with to create a new image 300 x 300 pixels, transparent background.
Use the
Flood Fill
tool
and fill the first layer (Layer1) ) with the light color
See
to that you have
the Layer Paletten open
Doubleclick on Layer1,
and rename the layer,
call it "bg"
Create a new layer, named Trellis
just press the "New Layer" button
click OK
Fill with the dark color.
Chose Effects - Texture Effects..
use the settings 15, 35, 100 .
Weave and Gap color black, "Fill gaps" checked, OK
(the page's background setting 15, 15, 100)
Change color , just click the arrows 
Use Magic Wand
and
select the black color,
fill the
selection with the light color. Deselect, Ctrl + D .
Chose Image rotate, Left checked, Free, 45. "All layers" unchecked

Duplicate the "bg"-layer
change the Opacityn,
I used this settings....
Make
a
seamless selection,
Dubbelclick the
selection tool 
use the settings
click OK
(the page's background
settings, Left 44, Right 129,
Top 43, Bottom 128)
Chose
Edit - copy merged ,
Edit - Paste - As a new Image ,
Save,
Do you want to see the example ?
click the image ..

Create your own variations, with a tub or a dingbat ..
Good luck
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© Tina Mårtensson
january 2002