Xero Plugin - Tekstya
Canterbury Bells Trivet

Tekstya Plugin does exactly what its name implies. It makes a texture over your image.
Although I used it for a trivet and a background, what a handy tool for making scrap papers!

Review and download this handy plugin here.

I started with a large photo of Canterbury Bells that I saved from some previous project.
It's not the best quality photo, but there's hope.

If you want to use this image, right click on it and save it to your harddrive.
Or drag it from your webbrowser to the workspace in PaintShop Pro.

Effects > Plugins > Xero > Tekstya with these settings - The foreground color is #dff1f1.
(You can change foreground and background colors by left clicking on them to open the color selection window.  Please feel free to experiment with the settings! This is just a guideline to show you how to use the plugin!)

Selection Tool > Square. Feather 0 Antialias checked.
Draw a square selection around the flower like shown below.

Image > Crop to selection.

Background Trivet

New image - 500 X 500 - floodfill with #dff1f1

Effects > Plugins > Xero > Tekstya - same settings as before.

Effects > 3D Effects > Inner bevel -  Use these settings

Click back to the cropped floral image.
Edit > Copy

Click on the Tile Image
Edit > Paste > Paste as New Layer

Effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel
Same settings as before.

If your Layer Palette isn't open, press F8 to open it.

Lower the opacity of your top layer to 60-70% by sliding the nodes to the left.

Layers > Merge All (Flatten)

Resize your image to your liking and export it as a jpg with no more than a compression of 8.

Here are before and after examples of another type of photo.

Photo of a late winter sky....	Tekstya applied.

I hope you enjoyed doing this quicky tut as much as I had fun writing it.

vetch