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Patterns are the easiest web backgrounds to create. They are already seamless patterns, so all it takes is saving the pattern to a file. Go to the Art Materials menu and click on the Pattern button and choose a pattern. I've picked Vines. |
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Then go to the menu and pick Check Out Pattern
This will open the pattern as a file. It's already a seamless tile. The raw image is too bright and it would be hard to find a color that can stand out amongst the light and dark patterns in the image. All that's left is to drop the contrast in the image and darken it somewhat so that white lettering, as here, will show up well.
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Go to the menu bar and pick Effects and choose Tonal Control. Pick Brightness/Contrast and lower it to point where detail isn't lost, but it's dark enough that lettering will stand out. Then go to the File menu and Save As and pick the Save as type for GIF. Try a few different color settings, checking the Preview Data button to see how they look. The fewer the colors, the smaller the file, but also the less realistic the file looks. I wound up saving the file in 32 Colors to preserve just enough details in the flowers that they still look photographic. Then click OK to save the file. |
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Painter comes with ten patterns on the immediate
menu. There are also thirteen additional pattern libraries on the Painter
5 CD-ROM under
\Stuff\Patterns.
To open the library, click on the white bar that shows the name of the pattern. This reveals the list of the other pattern names as well as the menu item for Load Library... Click on that and go to the Painter CD-ROM to pick one of the other pattern libraries which each contain about a dozen additional patterns. That's a fairly simple procedure to create some fancy web backgrounds like on this page. |
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