Welcome to my tutorial for the sandstone background tile that I have created. If you want to use the tutorial in your website or post it to a newsgroup please contact me. You will need Paint Shop Pro version 7 Here There are no special filters needed for this tile, everything you need to make it is included in the Paint Shop Pro program itself. Open a new image in PSP I sized mine at 300 x 300 just for ease of working, and resized it when I was done. Click the flood fill tool .. then go over to your pallet and on foreground click an select patterns.. OldPaper (see scrnsht) Go to ...Effects.. Geometric effects... Curley q and apply the following setings go to ...Effects... Sharpen More.. apply that twice. Next click on ..Effects ...Textures...Sandstone and apply the following settings. Once its applied while still selected I go to effects... sharpen. sharpen more an do that twice Now, go to ...Colors...Greyscale... and then ..Increase Colors...16million and click ok. Once you have done that Click layers and add a raster layer, with your floodfill tool still selected click on the palette and select a color of your choice, I set the opacity of mine at about 21 and then add layers of fill to get the color I prefer. Its not real difficult I realize but I like the effect very much. Hope you all enjoy! Thank you for visiting my tutorial site, once again the images you make using my tutorials are yours to use as you like, please however do not copy, reprint, or repost this tutorial as your own. The images on the tutorial and the html are mine.If you would like to use the tutorial in a class setting pleaseEmail Me. This tutorial was written and published on Feb 6th, 2003 by Mary_Lizbeth.Please see the statement at the beginning of the tutorial for useage. All graphics made FROM this tutorial are property of those using the tutorial, the text of this tutorial MAY NOT be borrowed,or used with out my express written consent!