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Papers are basically seamless tiles, so it doesn't take very much work to turn them into something that can be used on the web. Pick a paper type from the Art Materials:Paper Palette. For this exercise, I picked Crackle and scaled it to 57% because I wanted a finer pattern to work with. Take note of the size, 145x145 because that's the size of the seamless tile. This size changes as the scale is changed. |
 At the main menu, start a new file by File New. The file size must have the same pixel width and height height as the paper size. Click OK after setting the size to 145x145 pixels.
Fill the new file with a color using the Fill
Tool |
 From the main menu, choose
Effects,
Surface Control,
Apply Surface Texture. Set the
Using drop down menu to
Paper. This will imprint the new file with the
paper pattern. Use Softness to smooth the texture.
Decrease the Material Amount setting to drop
the contrast in the texture of the cracks. It's always important to remember
that text has to go on top of the image, so deep contrasts between light
and dark areas of the image need to be minimized. Click
OK.
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| Back at the main menu, use Effects, Tonal Control, Brightness/Contrast to further lower the contrast of the image and lighten it a little more. Save the background as a GIF file and it's ready to be used as a web background, as it is here. |
Painter
5 has a number of papers that can be used to create web
backgrounds. The Painter CD-ROM contains many additional papers that
can be loaded as libraries at \Stuff\Papers. There are 22 libraries, each
holding about a dozen paper types. The Invert Paper
check box on the Paper Palette will create
a negative image of the paper which almost effectively doubles the number
of paper images available.
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