Sculptured Mosaic Stat by Michelle ©2004

This is what we'll be making:

I used PSP 9.01 for this

If you would like to download this tutorial in .imf version for Incredimail just click on the orange Envelope

You will need a tube for this.

Frame

Open your tube in PSP. Duplicate it and close the original. Size the tube so that it's no larger than 400 pixels.

First you'll need to make your tube greyscale if it is coloured.

Image/Greyscale

Image/Increase Colour Depth/16 Million Colours

Edit/Copy

Open a transparent canvas 500 x 500 pixels

Flood fill #DEDEDE

Paste tube as a new layer.

Duplicate tube layer twice for a total of three layers.

Close the top two layers and working on the original layer

Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur - 15

Effects/Texture Effects/Mosaic-Antique

Duplicate this layer and mirror. Arrange the two layers side by side, but overlapping each other.

Close off the background layer and merge the two mosaic layers and duplicate the merged layer.

On the duplicated layer:

Adjust/Hue & Saturation/Colourize

Hue - 182

Saturation - 73

Reduce the opacity of this layer to 60% and change Blend mode to Dissolve.

Highlight 1st copy of the tube and make it visible.

Drop Shadow

Effects/Texture Effect/Sculpture:

Highlight top tube layer and give it the same Drop Shadow and reduce opacity to 60%.

Make sure background is still not visible and merge all other layers and make the background visible again. Crop around the mosaic area.

Add border 4 pixels symmetric Colour - #585179

Selection/Select All/Modify/Contract: Contract by 4

Effects/3D Effects/Cutout

Add border 40 pixels symmetric Colour - #585179

Selection/Select All/Modify/Contract: Contract by 40

Selections/Invert

We are going to FloodFill with the original tube

On the Material Palette, foreground, change to Pattern

Angle - 0

Scale - 30

Floodfill your selection.

Gaussian Blur - 15

Antique-Mosaic as before

Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel

Add border 4 pixels symmetric Colour - #585179

Selection/Select All/Modify/Contract: Contract by 4

Effects/3D Effects/Cutout, same as before.

Resize to mo more than 490 Pixels in height. Export as JPEG ready to put together in Letter Creator.

Tile:

We are going to make a brush of the tube for the tile. When you do this, please make sure you keep the original name of the tube.

File/Export/Custom Brush

Type in the name of the tube. Keep the default settings and click OK.

Opoen a new Transparent Canvas 350 x 350 and flood fill #585179

Now click on your Paintbrush and find the brush you just made.

On the same layer that you floodfilled, make sure your foreground is colour #DEDEDE click once with the brush in the centre of the canvas.

Effects/Image Effects/Seamless Tiling Default settings

Create a new layer and flood fill with the lighter colour and reduce the opacity to around 60%. Merge all layers and Export as a JPEG ready for Letter Creator.

Thank you for trying my tutorial. I hope you enjoyed it.