Deep Coloured Carpet Tutorial

This tutorial was written with PSP 7, and is quite easy to do. You will need the Xero plugin.

The terms of use are here





1. Open a new image, 300 x 300 pixels.

2. Flood-fill with the Flowers pattern, Scale 100%, Angle 90o, that comes with PSP 7. For those with earlier versions, you can right-click and save this image:



If you aren't familiar with using the Colour Pallette for patterns, there is a short explanation here
3. Go to

Effects - Plug-in Filters - Xero - Porcelain, default setting and then to
Effects - Plug-in Filters - Xero - Graytinter, default setting


4. Now go to:
Effects - Geometric Effects - Circle, and then to

Effects - Geometric Effects - Curly Q's, with the following settings:



5. Go to:

Effects - Reflection Effects - Kaleidoscope
All Settings 0, except Number of Petals 10.


6. Use the Selection Tool , Feather 0, placing the cursor at 150,150 and draw the circle out to the edges of the central design. Go to Selections - Invert - and hit delete. Then deselect (CTRL-D). Now you have the carpet--it just needs some colour!



7. Colourising

Go to Effects - Enhance Photo - Manual Color Correction


Red Carpet. Use Colour #710000, Preserve Lightness checked, and click twice in the left illustration.



Green Carpet. Use Colour #040000, Preserve lightness unchecked, and click once.

Blue Carpet. #160CA8, Preserve lightness checked, and click once.

8. If you want an oval rug, use the Deformation tool , and drag the centre boxes to the middle of the image:



Congratulations! I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.


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Uploaded August 2002