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Matching the repeat on a side border with bar
We're going to match the border and double bar but we'll use a fairly plain background.
1. Open up your graphic. I've chosen another pattern, keeping with a theme here...
2. Take your strip colour from the graphic, flood fill the strip, and add noise. (Click Image/Noise/9)
3. Click on your graphic, click Edit/copy then click on your strip and Edit/Paste as new layer. With the Mover tool, position the graphic to the left but leave a little border on the left.
4. Make a long rectangular selection to the right of your graphic, this will be your bar. Click Edit/Paste into selection.
5. Click Edit/Copy/Paste as new layer. Use the mover tool to move this 2nd bar to the extreme left of your graphic. Position it so that it and the one on the right are matched.
6. Click Image/Effects/Drop Shadow, settings like this
7. With the Selection tool (set at rectangle) select the left bar. Apply drop shadow, same settings as above.
8. Click on Layers/merge all.
9. With the selection tool (set at rectangle) make a selection where you can see the repeating pattern.
NB. On a pattern like this it might be easier to be guided by the pattern in the bar, as the repeat pattern that this demands, works the opposite way round from the example of an easy pattern in the first part of this tutorial.
10. Click Edit/copy. Make a new large image 1024 x 900 and click Edit/Paste as new layer, twice. Move the one layer to the top, and move the second layer to meet the bottom of the first layer.
11. If you've selected the right piece, it should look like this.
In which case, go back to your strip, click Image/Crop to selection, Click Layers/Merge Layers and save as a .jpg
If you've not made the right selection, go back to your strip, and try again (step 9).
The finished stationery will look like this,
The finished stationery as seen in Outlook Express will be like this, no seams, no broken shadows.
I hope this step by step has been of use to you.
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