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Using 20/20 and Photo Impact to create a muted seamless tile.
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Muted backgrounds with 20/20
Version six
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For this tutorial, you will need to download 20/20. Click here to go to the download page. If you hold shift down while clicking on this link, it will open in a new page so you can keep this page open. When the new page opens, look for 20/20. Download and install it. 20/20 is freeware. |
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After installing 20/20, copy the image you want to make seamless to the clipboard, or open an image you have saved on your hard drive from within the 20/20 program. If you'd like an image with which to practice, right mouse click on this one and click again on copy. This works well with clip art type images that have quite a bit of plain background area, but can also be used with pictures and artwork. |
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Open 20/20, and click
on file, open to open a new image. Or click on edit/paste/as a new
image to paste a copied image into the program.
Now look at the tool bar to the right side. You will see this button. |
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Click it, and your image will be tiled. Now click on edit/copy to copy your image. |
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Now open Photo Impact
if it is not already open. Click on file, Paste, as a new image to
open your copied image.
Right click on your
image and click again on All. This will select all of the image.
Right click again and click again on convert to object.
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| From here, you can right click and merge all, and use the image optimizer to save your background tile. | |
| (125 x 2 = 250, 125 X 3 = 375) | Or to fill a strip
with your image, open a new canvas 1152 X by a multiple of the height
of your image.
Here is where it can
get tricky. Your strip must be either the same height of your tile,
or a multiple of the height of the image in order for it to be seamless
in use.
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Click on the image
tab and click in the circle beside clipboard to fill the strip.
If you've already saved
an image you'd like to use for the background, click on the file circle,
and then on the box with ... on it to browse for your saved image.
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| Remember to use the object optimizer on your completed piece as explained in my previous tutorials. |
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