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Colored Weave Texture Tutorial
Part 1

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To create this image you will need to purchase "100 Textures" for $1.99. You will be using the texture called "aywhitetextweave.psd". To purchase go here.

I have tried to keep the download time of this tutorial to a minimum by compressing the screen shots. This makes them a bit blurry. It is either that or wait until we walk on Mars for the page to load.

I have also made this tutorial into several pages. This is to limit keep the download time to a minimum, too.

In this tutorial, we are going to make a texture from an existing texture. There are several images in "AmeriYank's 100 Textures" which you can change using this techinique. Just look for the ones that have "aywhite" as the first part of their file name. There are about 14 of them. So, you can create an almost unlimited EXTRA number of textures from those 14 alone.

We will be turning this    image of white woven texture    into this     image of finished rose-colored texture

You can use the finished product for background images on web pages, fills for new graphics, and anything your imagination can thinkup! Now let's get started.

If you own "AmeriYank's 100 Textures", open the one named  "aywhitetextweave.psd". 

If you are using the image sent to "AmeriYank's Friday Freebie", open the one called, "ayminiweave.psd". You can obtain the image by going to AmeriYank's Graphics Farm and joining the Freebie group (scroll to the bottom to join). After joining, visit the archives and search for the message heading "AmeriYank--July 12, 2002". Download the ZIP file for that week. It has the file in it you will need to do the tut. It is a smaller version of the one included in "AmeriYank's 100 Textures", but the process for changing it is exactly the same.

Instructions for this tutorial are for Paint Shop Pro 7. You can easily make it in 5 or 6, using the same techniques.

If you use another graphics program, you can make the image, too. But you will have to make adjustments for whatever program you use.

Follow the red numbers to be sure you do the tutorial in the right order.


1

First, open Paint Shop Pro, or whatever program you are using.

Next, open the image file you are using.

Now, make a copy of the image so that you will still have the original when we are done.

To make a copy in Paint Shop Pro, hold down the "Ctrl" key. While keeping it down, press "D". And VOILA! a copy you shall have.

Close the ORIGINAL image, so only the copy is shown

 making a copy of the orginal image
add new rastor layer
2

Now, you want to add a "New Rastor Layer". (If you are using Paint Shop Pro 5, you will just "add a layer", rastor and vector choices did not arrive until 6.)

Go to "Layers", "New Rastor Layer".

I added the red to help you read the image better, so do NOT look for big read letters, they will not be there.



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