BIRGIT'S TRIANGLE FILTER BACKGROUNDS

This tutorial was inspired by seeing Birgit's new triangle filter.  This tutorial will show you how to make two background variations and will show you how the background will look when muted as well.

These backgrounds will work wonderfully in triple or double background sets or if muted, will work very well alone too.

For this tutorial - you will need the following:

Birgit's Chaos filters which you can download here.  For this tutorial, you will need the Triangle filter.  Be sure to see all the other beautiful filters available at Birgit's site and download them.

Sandy Blair's Simple Filters that you can download here.  For this tutorial, we will be using the  Pizza Slice Mirror, Centre Tile, Diamonds and Zoom Out and Flip filters.

FM Tile Tools which you can download here.  For this tutorial, we will be using the Blend Emboss filter.

Step 1

Open a new white image 200 width by 200 height.

Step 2

Go to Effects/Plug-in Filters/Birgits Chaos and apply the Triangle Filter using these settings:

Your image will now look like this:

Step 3

Now we will colorize this image.  To do that, left click your eye dropper and left click it on any color on the Color Palette so that it appears on the top color box under Styles at the Styles Palette.  Left click that top color box and this color option window will open up:

Write down the hue and saturation of the color you chose.  For this tutorial, I chose red.

Step 4

Go to Color/Colorize and when the Colorize window opens up, type in the hue and saturation of the color you want your image to be.  For the shade of red, we will use Hue of 9 and Saturation of 255.  The shade you chose may not be exactly the same but with colorizing, it will be very close.

The tile will now look like this:

Step 4

Go to Effects/Plug-in Filters/Simple/Pizza Slice Mirror.  Your graphic will now look like this:

Step 5

Go to Effects/Plug-in Filters/Simple/Centre Tile and your image should now look like this:

Step 6

Go to Effects/Plug-in Filters/Simple/Diamonds and you should now have this:

Step 7

Go to Effects/Plug-in Filters/FM Tile Tools/Blend Emboss and apply the default settings:

Your completed tile will now look like this as you see in the outer background. Save you tile as a jpg and be sure to compress it so that it is less than 30,000 bytes.

To get the tile design in the Inner Background, you would do this:

Step 1

Do all Steps 1 - 4 as you did above. Step 4 will get you to the Effects/Plug-in Filters/Simple/Pizza Slice Mirror.  This you will need to do. Your tile should look like this:

Step 2

Go to Effects/Plug-in Filters/Simple/Zoom Out and Flip and your tile will now look like this:

Step 3

Go to Effects/Plug-in Filters/Simple/Diamonds and you should now have this:

Step 4

Go to Effects/Plug-in Filters/FM Tile Tools/Blend Emboss and again use the default settings as you did above.

You can save this tile as is or you can mute it as you see in the middle background of this tutorial.  To mute it, you would do the following:

Step 1

Go to Layers/New Raster Layer.

Step 2

Left click your eyedropper and left click the tile so that the color of the tile appears in the top color box at the Style Palette.  Left click the color box with your tile color so that the color option window opens up. In the large color square, left click a much lighter shade of the color of your tile and click ok.  Now flood fill your new layer with that color. I chose a shade of pink to flood fill my new layer.

Step 3

Move your opacity control on your new layer over until you see the bottom layer seep into the new flood filled layer.  When you have the look that you like, go to Layers/Merge/Merge All (flatten).

Step 4

Save your file as a jpg and be sure to optimize it so that it is less than 30,000 bytes.