Photo Filterized Backgrounds

The Basic steps for each photo is the same...

Open your choice of photo into your PSP workspace.

Make a copy...shift + d and then close down the original

Go to Image...Reduce Size...and make it about 200 x 200

Also, when I achieve a result that I like, I make a copy of it and save that copy to my backgrounds folder. Of course I also minimize it as I usually add to it later...to make even more backgrounds. *g* Then I go back to the original tile and continue experimenting or undoing it and starting from scratch again. You can of course do what I often do and that is to make several copies to work with.

Feel free to use this one as a test if you wish....then maybe find some of your own to see what you can come up with too. This photo is one that I took at a party I held back in '97, in honour of my husband, who had just survived a heart attack and quadruple-by-pass. This poor guy on the hay bales...drank so much beer that night, he complained that he was so bloated and was feeling like a balloon. *g*

Go to Plugins....VM Natural...Plastic Starfish and play around with the settings until you get something you like...my settings for my first tile were these.

Once you have okayed that...go to Plugins...Simple...Pizza Slice Mirror. This is what I got from my photo.

Once I'd saved this tile to my folder, I then decided to do more to it. Next I went to Effects...Reflection Effects....Kaleidoscope...with these settings. It depends on what you have chosen as your base and the patterns that you like as to what settings you choose though.

Then Plugins....Simple....Quick Tile...then back again for Pizza Slice Mirror and back again for Zoom out and Flip. Which gave me this one.

Now going back to the basic photo, I used different settings in the Plastic Starfish....

Next went to Simple... 4 way Average

Simple...Pizza Slice Mirror

Simple....Quick Tile....which gave me the result on the lower left. Of course you don't have to stop there either...if you like the pattern but want different colours....try going to Colours....Adjust...Channel Mixer and experiment by sliding each of the levers backwards and forwards. *s*

Try also to lower the opacity to make less bold backgrounds and also try different layer modes to get more effects.

More tiles from experimenting further...I got the blue one by choosing Colours...Negative Image

2. My grandchildren and I on New Year's Eve, '00 Let's try a different photo...remember to go back to this base for each effect you do.
For this result I went to VM Natural....Weave no distortion.... Simple.....4 way average. That's it!
For this one I chose.... VM Natural.....Splash... Simple....diamonds Simple....4 way average
This one was made using only the Simple filters Simple....Pizza Slice Mirror Diamonds 4 Way Average Zoom out and Flip
This one was using all Simple Filters too. Center Tile 4 Way Average Diamonds 4 Way Average once again
This next one was using: VM toolbox....trimosaic then Simple filters...Diamonds then 4 way average
Simple Blintz VM Tool box...Motion Trail Wild Simple.....Diamonds 4 way Average Diamonds

Photo 3 This image is one that Hannah aka Taiga did for me at Christmas, using the Cafe PSP's mascot...Percy the Pelican....he is a magnificent bird that I met back in October last year, here in South Australia. s
Go to Plugins....VM Experimental...TeeWee Simple.....Diamonds 4 Way Average Diamonds again Kaleidoscope.....then do that again with same settings. Lastly, Simple....Quick Tile
VM Experimental....The Accountant Simple Pizza Slice Mirror Diamonds Center Tile
VM Experimental....The Accountant Simple Pizza Slice Mirror Diamonds Half wrap Diamonds VM Instant Art....Tripolis Diamonds again.

I could have gone on forever making backgrounds to show you but I think that I have given you enough to go on for now. I look forward to seeing what you come up with and I hope that you enjoyed this quick and easy tute....well at least it is if you don't get addicted to it. Thanks for doing it. *s*