To do this tutorial you will need a working knowledge of PSP. If you are new to PSP, or have a problem doing this tutorial, you can find me at Raven's PSP Forum, be happy to help you out.

You also need my Paper Gradient.
 Click here to download. Unzip the file and place it in your gradients folder.

This is an easy tutorial, I've included many screen shots to try to show each step in detail. 

Step 1

Open a new image 350 X 350
Set the background to Transparent.  

Click on the foreground swatch to open the Materials Palette. Find the "mqc-paper" gradient and set it like this.

Flood Fill with the gradient.

You won't see any change in your image. the noise gives the fur filter something to work with.

Step 4

Go to Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance More.

Repeat Enhance More.

Step 5

Go to Layers>Duplicate.

Go to Image>Rotate>Free Rotate.
Make sure to uncheck "All Layers".

Step 6

Open your Layer Palette. ( F8 )
Go to Copy of Raster 1.
Click the small arrow next to Normal, set the Layer Blend Mode to Dodge.
Grab the slider, lower the Opacity to 50%.

Go to Adjust>Hue and Saturation>Colorize.
Use these settings.

Go to Adjust>Color Balance>Black and White Points.
Set the top 3 color boxes to        #000000   #808080   #FFFFFF
Set the bottom 3 color boxes to   #000000   #340000   #808080
Uncheck the bottom 2 boxes.

Step 9

Go to Effects>Artistic Effects>Chrome.
Use these settings.

If you don't want the blurred looked you could use Sepia Toning.

Go to Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp Mask.
Use these settings.

Step 12-Optional

Go to Adjust>Brightness and Contrast>Highlight/Midtone/Shadow.
Leave the Midtone at 50 and the Highlight at 100.
Adjust the Shadow to darken your paper some.

Just a note:

You would probably not get the same results with a different size canvas, but if you go to Effects>Image Effects>Seamless Tiling and use the default settings, you'll get a pattern that will fill any size canvas.

That's it, you're done.:)

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