Making Rugs in Splat!

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. I happened upon this effect while playing with Splat!, the latest filter from Alien Skin.
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Paint Shop Pro 7, Splat!, Fantastic Machine's Paint Engine.
You may download a 30 day trial version of Splat here.

***There is a file that needs to be copied into your Windows directory for the "presets" to work for you. Make sure Paint Shop is closed when you do this, if it is open they will not show up until you close Paint Shop and reopen it. 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.***

You can download a thirty day trial of Paint Shop Pro 7 here
This is the free version of Paint Engine and you can download it here

Lets get started! =)

First begin by opening a 500 x 200 transparent image. Using your Selection tool, Ellipse, Feather 0, antialias checked, start at the center of your image and draw a large ellipse.

While still selected flood fill your image with your rug color. I used #6347DB. Deselect.

Go to Effects, Plugins, Splat, Edges and use these settings.

If you see a white edge around the rug then click on your colored part of the rug using your magic wand, tolerance 0, feather 0. The blue part of the rug is now selected. Go to Selections, Invert and hit the delete key on your keyboard. That removes the white edge. Deselect.

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 apply the Mosiac 1 preset. The settings are below if you don't have this preset.

Then go to Effects, Sharpen, Sharpen.

That's all there is to it! Just crop the rug and save it as a tube. Anytime you use these rugs you can use your deformation 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.

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