Hook Rug Tutorial by Jarah

This tutorial was created and put on this site on Jan. 12. 2002
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For this tutorial you will need:

Paint Shop Pro 8 ~ download a trial version here.

Redfield Lattice Composer ~ download here.

VM Distortion Filter ~ download here.

Let's begin. Open your 350 X 350 image. You may use mine or one of your choice. Just resize to 350 X 350 being sure 'Maintain aspect ratio of ' is unchecked.

Go to your layer palette and right click on Background Layer and Promote to Layer. This is very important as you will not end up with a transparent image if you do not do this step. Now for the fun part...let's apply the filters to get our hook rug.

Go to Effects > Plugins " VM Distortion > Kaleidoscope and use these settings:

Effects > Plugins > Redfield > Lattice Composer and apply these settings (Wallen Tiles):

Now go to Effects > Geometric Effects > Circle and apply.

Now we are going to reapply the Kaleidoscope filter as above. Effects > Plugins > VM Distortion > Kaleidoscope default settings:

We are now going to give the image a more textured appearance just like a real hook rug. Effects > Texture Effects > Texture and select the canvas.bmp(Tip: if you will hover over the textures in the dropdown box it will tell you the names of the textures)

and use these settings:

That's it! Now you can merge all layers visible and tube it or save as a jpg or gif.

Hope you enjoyed my tutorial. If you have any comments or questions please feel free to email me.

On the next page are some more examples.