Making Rugs in Eye Candy

This is a very easy tutorial for making rug tubes! You can make these rugs
in all colors so they will be ready for use in your Paint Shop projects.
This tutorial was rewritten for version 8 on July 5, 2004.
If you should have a question or a comment, you can write me here ..
ginny_hopping at yahoo dot com.

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Paint Shop Pro 8
Eye Candy 3 or
Eye Candy 4000
Fantastic Machine's Paint Engine.

***When installing Paint Engine there is a file that needs to be copied into your
Windows directory for the "presets" to work. Make sure Paint Shop is closed
when you do this. In the zip, select the "fmachine.ini" file and extract it to
C:/WINDOWS. Then open Paint Shop and you should see your presets
when you use Paint Engine.***

Lets get started! =)

First begin by opening a new 500 x 200 transparent canvas.
Using your Selection tool , settings of ..
Selection type "Ellipse", Mode "Replace", Feather "0", Antialias, "checked",
start at the center of your image and draw a large ellipse.

While still selected click on your Flood Fill tool and fill your image with
your rug color. I used #6347DB. Go to Selections/Select None.

Go to Effects/Plugins/Eye Candy3 or Eye Candy 4000/Jiggle
and use these settings ...

Here's what you should have now.

Next we are going to apply an effect in Paint Engine that looks like a hooked rug.
Go to Effects/Plugins/Fantastic Machines/Paint Engine and use these settings ...

Brush
Push Intensity ................................. .21
Lighten ............................................ -3.8
Bias.................................................... .00
Pull Intensity................................... .34
Lighten................................................ .1
Bias.................................................... .00

Stroke
Type "Downhill"
Input and Line............................ "unchecked"
Length ............................................................. 24
Radiate.......................................................... 1.00
Motion Angle................................................ 170
Curl ..................................................................... 3
Operation Angle.......................................... 132
Curl ................................................................. -45
Direction Channel........................ R "checked"

Effect
Amount ........................................... 1.74
Wrap Edges "unchecked

Then go to Adjust/Sharpeness/Sharpen.
That's all there is to it! Anytime you use these rugs you can use your Deform Tool
to make them bigger or flatter depending on the scene you are creating.
Below is a screen shot of the deformation tool applied to make the rug flatter.

Here are some examples of this rug in different colors.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial!

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