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Digital Scrapbooking with PSP9

PSP9 Tutorial: Make Stripe and Plaid Paper

How to make stripe and plaid paper for digital scrapbooking using Paint Shop Pro 9 PSP.

1.) New image, settings at:

Width: 200 pixels
Height: 200 pixels
Resolution 200 dpi
Raster background
16 million color depth
fill with background color

2.) Choose your pen tool, using varying widths draw straight vertical lines.

3.) Select layers, merge visible.

4.) Select a small slither of the stripe, crop to selection.

5.) New image: your paper, 12X12 200 resolution, Raster Background 16 million colors, transparent.

6.) Fill with your stripe pattern.

7.) Copy and paste as a new image, save it - this is your stripe paper. Keep the working copy to make a plaid.

To make the plaid paper:

1.) On the working copy: New Raster layer, Blend mode normal, Opacity 50%, check layer is visible.

2.) Click on your stripe pattern and change the angle to 90 %.

3.) Fill your image.

4.) Layers, merge visible.

5.) Save your plaid.

Enjoy your papers!

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