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Open PSP and
create a new image using 600 for the width and 600 for the height.
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Click on View in
the main menu and then click on Grid
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Click on View
again then click on Change Grid & Guide Properties
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I started out
with using 50 for both Horizontal and Vertical spacing. This gives you a
guide to use as a certain portion of the top and bottom you are going to
want to be able to cover a larger area as you would with a background.
You will want to try and make this part of the graphic as a seamless
tile.
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For the easier
project (project
1) I used the Ask Maggy Mae background image and the butterfly is a
tube.
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With the AMM
background image I opened it in PSP and because of it's size I resized
it to 600 pixels wide then copied it and pasted it as a new layer into
the new image window. Then I moved it so it took up the full width
of the window and two rows in the grid.
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I again pasted
it as a new layer and placed it in the bottom taking up the full width
and only one row in the grid.
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I then used the
selection tool to mark the top of the graphic and I first used
Effects>3D Effects>Inner Bevel. Then I used Effects>3D Effects>Buttonize.
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I repeated the
above for the bottom of the graphic.
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I again repeated
the Buttonize for the entire graphic.
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I then selected
the Picture Tube Tool and chose the butterfly.
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I sized the
butterfly to the top graphic and then created a new image and used the
butterfly tube to place one butterfly in the new image.
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I copied the
butterfly from the new image and I placed it evenly 3 times on the top
graphic.
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I sized the
butterfly to the bottom graphic then created a new image and used the
butterfly tube to place one butterfly in the new image.
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I then copied
the butterfly from that new image and I placed it evenly 5 times on the
bottom graphic.
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I then had my
template or my basic design to split with the
image slicer. But the
finished project will not appear exactly how that image appears, this
will be explained later.
