Creating Paper Textures

 

Select any image you want that is already made or create your own. I just grabbed the below image from another tutorial and converted it to greyscale. (Colors>Greyscale)

What you want to end up with is a seamless tile. You will have to create that after you create your design. I chose to use the Effects included in Paint Shop Pro 7 to create my design.

I applied the Kaleidoscope and the Feedback effects located under Effects>Reflection Effects>Kaleidoscope and Feeback. You can create your pattern any way you like.

I then selected a rectangular area in about the middle of the image and went to Selections>Convert to Seamless Pattern. If your selection is too close to the edges of the image you will be notified to move your selection away from the edges.

Once you have your seamless tile, as shown below, save it to your Paint Shop Pro 7 Textures folder with a .bmp extension. (Normally located at C:/Program Files/Jasc Software Inc/Paint Shop Pro 7/Textures/)

Now when you use any of the Paint tools you can use your new paper texture.

    

As soon as you save your paper texture to the textures folder it becomes available for you to use.

Below is an example of creating a seamless tile with my new paper texture. I created a new image 200 X 200 pixels and used the Paint Brush tool with different colors to create the image below.

I then created a rectangular selection and went to Selections>Create Seamless Pattern.

    

My seamless tile is below and just below that a table with my new paper texture as a seamless tile background.

The paper textures are also available from the Textures menu under Effects>Textures

    

    

The Brightness/Contrast was adjusted on my texture to achieve the effect on the left.

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