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Quilter’s Plaid Background Tile

This is what we will be making. It’s super easy and gives a great effect!

This tutorial was written on July 27, 2008.

Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.
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SUPPLIES NEEDED:
Paint Shop Pro (here)
I am using version 9 but should work with any version.

Simple & Toadies Filters (here)

Let’s get started!

1. Open a new 200x200 transparent image

Resolution 300 pixels per inch

2. Set your Foreground Color to White and your
Background to AE3348 and click on your texture box and choose Square

3. Flood Fill your image with White and without adding a new layer;

4. Flood Fill your image with your background texture. It will look like this

5. Effects- Toadies- Weaver (default settings) 59-48-222

6. Effects- Simple Filters- Quick Tile


7. Merge all flatten and you can save your tile as a jpeg. Wasn’t that easy!!!
You can leave it as it but I added a couple of more steps.

8. Duplicate your layer – Layer- Duplicate

9. Image- Rotate- Free Rotate (single layer checked) 90 degrees

10. Adjust the layer opacity of the top layer to 52.


Now you’re done!!! Adding the 2nd layer gives it a more squared looking outline.

Here are a couple of examples of the tile used to make a quilt.

I added texture and borders on this one.


Example 2

On this one I added texture and then added some white layers and stitching along with borders. I also used the mesh warp, lighten/darken and highlighting to give it the movement.

Thanks for trying my tutorial. I hope you had fun.