How to make pleats

How to make pleats in PI

Version 6

	Open a new canvas with the dimensions of 1152 X 250. Make sure single color is selected under canvas. Double click the title bar of your new canvas so that it is maximized. Press ctrl 0 to make sure you are seeing your image full size.
	Click on your path tool and in the attribute bar, make sure the shape is set to rectangle. Choose the color for your pleats. Set the mode to 3d round.
	Click and drag in your canvas to draw a rectangle a little higher than you want your border to be. When you get to the edge of the canvas, keep dragging. We want the bevels to be outside the borders of the canvas so the top and bottom borders don't show and cause a seam.
	Click on the material button. Click on reflection and make sure there is no reflection in use. A reflection would interfere with the seamlessness of your finished pleats. In the border/depth tab, set the border to 30, and make sure the depth is set to no more than 15. Set the type of border to "in".
	In the easy palette, open your gallery section, and click on material, then shading. Double click shiny 2.
	Now click the bump tab, and find fabric 1. Right click/modify properties and apply.
	Change the density to 45, and unclick use bump as a reflection. Click ok. This gives your border the look of cloth. Change to the transform tool.
	With your mouse, drag the square handle at the top upward, and the square at the bottom downward so that you can't see the beveled edges. Leave the beveled edge on the left sticking out so it doesn't show in the strip. In the image to the left, you can see how the rectangle sticks out on the left, top and bottom by the outline shown by the transform tool.
	Now would be a good time to preview your strip. To do that, click file/preview in browser/as tiled background. If you saw a seam you will need to resize your pleat so that it is taller yet.
	The following steps are optional. They are marked with *. This will not work in version 5. *Click on the stamp tool. Click the down arrow beside the deer, click select stamp, and click silver ball.ufo. You may have to scroll to find it.
	***Set the scale to 53, and the spacing to 76. To the right of this, there are more buttons. Click the one marked with an arrow here. This is the separate objects button.
	*Now click effect/paint on edges. Your pearls will be painted on the edge of your strip. Only the edges that show on the canvas will be painted on. Change to the pick tool. Hold down control while clicking on your pleat to deselect it. Please note!!! if you are having problems with the next step it may be because you did not deselect the pleat. Look at the layer manager** to be sure the pleat is not selected. In the layer manager, selected objects are on a dark blue box. If it is still selected, hold down control and click the thumbnail in the easy palette to deselect it. This is what causes the pleat to be resized along with the pearls. In the illustration to the right, the pleat is not selected. After deselecting the pleat, minimize the easy palette if you don't have much memory.
	*Most likely, you will get a partial pearl at the top and bottom. To fix this, right click/merge as a single object. Check your layer manager again. It should now show only two objects, and the row of pearls should be selected. Right click/properties/Position & size** tab. Unclick "keep aspect ratio" Set the top to 0, and the height to 250, or the height of your image if you have not used my dimensions. Click ok. Click the center vertically button in the attribute bar for the pick tool to make sure your row of pearls is centered. Hold down control while clicking on your pleat. Right click/group.
	Hold down control and drag your pleat over a little. This will duplicate it. Arrange the pleats so that one is sticking out from behind the other. Arrange along the left side. Add a shadow to the pleat in the back if you wish. Press the space bar so that no objects are selected. Click edit/fill, and fill with a complimentary color. Add an object to your pleats. Right click here/click save target as... to download the object I used for this strip. It is in ping format, so if you are doing this in version 5 you can still use it.
	Remember to use the image optimizer on your completed piece as explained in my previous tutorials.
POET	Using stamps with the paint on edges command was discovered by Ginger Bauer. Please visit her fine tutorial to learn more.