Christmas Tree Background Tile Tutorial

This tutorial was made with Paint Shop Pro 7. You can download a free 30-day evaluation copy of PSP7 HERE.

Download this preset stocking shape HERE and unzip it into your preset shapes folder.

** Please note that many of my screenshots are resized larger so you can see them better. Your image should always be 50x50 pixels. **

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1. Open a new image, 50x50, with a transparent background. Flood will with color #C00000.



Zoom in about 200-300% so you can see the details of what you are doing. If you have a mouse with a middle wheel, you can roll the wheel up and down to adjust the zoom.

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2. Set the forground color to #DD0101. Use your paintbrush with these settings. Click on the upper left hand corner once with the paintbrush.





It should look like this:



Now put one square in the lower right hand corner of the image, like this:



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3. Turn your background off and your forground on. With your shapes tool, select the stocking shape.



Draw one stocking in each light colored red square.



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4. Convert to raster layer. New raster layer. Set your line tool settings to this:



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5. Let's do all of the horizontal seam stitching. Click your paintbrush once time at each of the following locations to put stitches down the left side of the image:

1,5
1,10
1,15
1,20
1,30
1,35
1,40
1,45



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6. Now put them down the right side of the image at these locations:
49,10
49,15
49,20
49,30
49,35
49,40
49,45

Now put them down the middle seam of the image at these locations:
24,5 26,5
24,10 26,10
24,15 26,15
24,20 26,20
24,30 26,30
24,35 26,35
24,40 26,40
24,45 26,45

It should now look like this:



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7. Let's do all of the horizontal seam stitching. Set your paintbrush settings to this:



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8. Click your paintbrush once at each of the following locations:

top seam:
5,1
10,1
15,1
20,1
30,1
35,1
40,1
45,1

bottom seam:
5,49
10,49
15,49
20,49
30,49
35,49
40,49
45,49

middle seam:
5,24 5,26
10,24 10,26
15,24 15,26
20,24 20,26
30,24 30,26
35,24 35,26
40,24 40,26
45,24 45,26

Your image should look like this:



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Save as a jpg image, and it can be used for a repeatable tile.
All finished...I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial!

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