Title: How to make a cloth background
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JigsawQueen

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Date Posted：07/08/2017 14:57 PMCopy HTML   How to make a cloth background   For this technique you are going to need the filter called dsb flux...   We want to have our canvas big enough so that when we Blast, we won't have chopped off blast lines so we will start with a 600x600 canvas (we will crop it at the end of this tut) 1. flood fill your canvas with white.   2. choose a tube you are going to use and add that to your canvas     (you now have 2 layers)   3. duplicate your tube (you now have 3 layers) and then highlight the tube layer (the bottom one of the two, not the copy)   4. with the tube layer highlighted go to:                     EFFECTS/ARTIST EFFECTS/ENAMEL                     with these settings:                     blur: 100                     detail: 100                     density:128                     angle: 45                     color: white   5. this now gives a texture like blur to our tube and also "spreads" it out for us   6. Now we are going to give it the effect of cloth...                      we will be doing this next step 4 times..go to:                      EFFECTS/PLUGINS/DSB FLUX/BLAST                       1. first setting:                           direction: Left                            percentage: 24                            absolute : unchecked                            click ok                        2. second setting:                            direction: Right                            all other settings stay the same                        3. third setting:                            direction: upward                            all other settings stay the same                         4. fourth setting:                             direction: downward That is all there is to my cloth making.  There are a couple of things I would like to share with you so read the notes below.   ***Note: After you have your blasted cloth the way you want it, you can now crop your canvas, but be sure and realize that you  don't want to "chop" off any of the blasted stuff because when you chop it off you can see the chopped edges in your final tag...so if you want your tag smaller (600x600 is pretty big and it needs to be cut down to at least 500x500) and you don't want to cut off any of the blast, just reduce the size of your cloth layer BEFORE you crop it.   ***Note: At this point you can use your discretion as to how much "blast you want for your cloth...If it isn't soft enough for you do the whole process again.  If it isn't blasted enough for you try adjusting your blast PERCENTAGE   ***Note: When blasting, if you don't want to use the tube for your background color you can add a new raster layer and then with your paint brush make a big blob of color that you want to use and then follow the same instructions as above.   ***Note: When blasting, sometimes if you use a lot of blast, it will cause the edges of your blaste image to take on some dark greys around the edges, if you don't want that to happen, after you have it blasted you can go to your colorize tool (only available in PSP 10 and above) and with the color you want your cloth to be in the TOP square of your materials palette just click the colorizer tool and you have a cloth with now grey texture lines.  Of course this is only if you are using a solid color on your cloth...if you have used a tube for your blaste cloth and it has multiple colors on it, the colorizer tool WILL NOT give you multiple colors, it will only colorize it to one color.   ***Note: If you want a softer look to your cloth, instead of using the Artist Enamel, you can use a gausian blur on your tube, I would set it to at least a 12 blur and then follow the same instructions.    ***Note: If you want an even softer look just right click your cloth layer and then drop the opacity a bit until you get the look you want.    ****Note: If you need to shrink your  cloth or enlarge it a bit...just get out your pick tool (the warp tool) and grab a node to drag it smaller or bigger.   Once you have your cloth made you can merge it with your white background. Voila you have a soft, pretty background for your tag.   Mini-Tut's By Marilyn ( This is a self taught technique)