This tutorial was written in March 2001 and  © by Lady Oz.  You have my permission to make a copy of this tutorial or print it out for your own personal use ONLY .  If you think that my work is good enough and would like to create a  TEXT LINK to my tutorials, or share them with a group, please let me know.  This tutorial belongs to this site and I wish it to remain here.

What you create from my tutorials belong to you, to do with as you wish....I hold no claim to them...but I would love to see what you create from them. ;o)

 

This is the first tutorial that I have ever made and it came about because a few people were asking how I did my plaids...I had only ever been sent the instructions on how to do these, in an email from the founder of a group that I was in at that time.  So to make it easier on those interested friends, who couldn't quite grasp the method... and, of course, to save having to keep sending out the information...I decided to try to put together a tutorial for them.....I am not credited with creating these methods on how to make plaids...only for the putting together of this tutorial.

  The Simple and Video Rave filters were designed by two very talented men who work hard to make our graphic creating a lot easier. Instructions for installing these filters are at the site....as I said before they really make things easy for us. You need to download these two filters from the above sites, in order to make these plaids...unless you have them already sitting in your Plugins folder.  ;o)

 I have tried to consider the 'newbies' who are just starting out in PSP and hope that I have achieved this. These plaids can be made in any version of PSP...and are so simple to make (really, I kid you not) good news, huh?... :o)

Now we will proceed to teach you how to create your own plaids. The plaid, pictured below, is the result that we want to achieve from my chosen photo.

The photo I have chosen is one of my holiday photos, a picture that I took of a model of novelist Catherine Cookson's family home. Has she gone mad? I hear you ask....no! you can use anything that grabs your fancy. Turn your ugly mother-in-law into something pretty and get rid of your negative feelings about her....you have a lot more to gain by turning her into a plaid rather than a toad! :o)

 

First of all you will need some things before we get started on this project.

A picture of your choice, which can be anything you like....as long as it is a square. If you choose one that is not, then go to Image-Resize and uncheck maintain ratio, change the size, or use Canvas size. I make mine 100 by 100 but you can make them bigger if you wish. If you want to you can use the picture that I am using to get you started....just right click and save to your hard drive.