Creative Discovery in PaintShop Pro
Lesson 9

You will need these patterns. I have zipped them up for you.
Lesson 9 Zip File

Download them, unzip and place in your Patterns folder, where you keep your PSP stuff.


First - Wait for the Video player to load
Then - You need to watch the video before doing lesson below - it has a lot more important information and explanations for you
You may do the lesson as you watch the video though
Also - Click the full screen button on the player to watch it full screen or you may not see all of the settings properly



1. PATTERNS

To access or use a pattern go to the Materials Palette and click on this 3rd square in the choices - click on the top one to open the other two



That will place a pattern in your materials Palette
Now click on that pattern to open the Materials Properties box to access all of your patterns

Check that the Add Texture Button in the Texture Section of the Material Properties Box, is NOT ticked.
This will cause your pattern to look completely different and also very faint.


2. FILE LOCATIONS

File > Preferences > File Locations
Locate the Patterns in the left hand box under File types: Click on Patterns

You will see on the Right Box the list of Pattern file folders (these are where the patterns are kept) that you have access to now.
To get PSP to find the patterns that you just added go to ADD



A new box - Browse for Folder - will pop open.
Browse for the Folder where you placed your patterns into at the beginning of this lesson.
Select that folder and Click OK



You will now see those patterns in the Material Properties box - Check them out.

3. MAKING THE PATTERN SAMPLES

    Open a new image
  • 200 x 200 Pixels
  • Raster Background
  • Colour - None (Transparent Ticked)
Click OK

Duplicate 4 times so you have 5 transparent boxes

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Locate the "goldgrad1" pattern - Select it by left clicking - it will have a blue box around it, when it is selected
Click OK down the bottom of the Materials Properties box.
The goldgrad1 pattern will be in your foreground box (because we Left clicked - if we right clicked it would be in the background box)



Flood fill one of your transparent boxes with the pattern - the same as you do for a plain colour.



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Locate the "ads_texture_wood_boards15" pattern - Select it and change the Angle to 45 and the Scale to 100.
Click OK OR you can hit the enter key on your keyboard



The wood pattern will be in your materials palette
Flood fill one of your transparent boxes with this pattern.



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Locate the "bricks1" pattern - Select it and change the Angle to 0 and the Scale to 50.
Click OK OR the enter key on your keyboard
The brick pattern will be in your materials palette
Flood fill one of your transparent boxes with this pattern.



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Locate the "ads_texture_marble_vein5" pattern - Select it and choose your own Angle and Scale settings.
Click OK OR the enter key on your keyboard
The marble pattern will be in your materials palette
Flood fill one of your transparent boxes with this pattern.



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Locate the "adstextplaid22b" pattern - Select it and choose your own Angle and Scale settings.
Click OK OR the enter key on your keyboard
The plaid pattern will be in your materials palette
Flood fill one of your transparent boxes with this pattern.




4. MAKING A PATTERN DISPLAY

    Open a New Image
  • 550 x 450
  • Raster Background
  • Transparent
Click OK

Copy and paste each of your pattern samples onto this new image - they will site on top of each other as you add them.
Now take your move tool and spread them out so that you have a nice display
You can display them in a different way to mine if you wish



Effects > 3D Effects > Drop Shadow
Use your own settings to add a drop shadow to each one
Move everything around to where you want them now, while they are still in layers

Layers > Merge >Merge all (Flatten)



5. BUTTONIZE

Effects > 3D Effects > Buttonize

    Use these settings:-
  • Height - 5
  • Width - 5
  • Opacity - 100
  • Edge - Transparent
  • Colour - A dark Teal Blue/Green
Click OK



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LESSON REQUIREMENTS

One Image - Pattern Display
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