In this Paint Shop Pro 9 tutorial you will learn a very quik an easy way to make a tile or repeatable image. These can be very usefull for patterns or a background for your webpage.

To start from scratch create a new document size 200x200px. Then flood fill it with the color of your choice. I used #9e94f4. Now lets add some balls/bubbles. Effects > Artistic Effects > Balls and Bubbles. This is a really fun tool and you can come up with all sorts of interesting effects. I would recommend click the "Radomize Parameters" button a few times. Its the one that looks like a die. This is what I came up with.

Now you have a cool little design but if you attempt to use it as a pattern or repeatable background image it doesn't match up. To fix this its very easy, go to Effects > Image Effects > Offset. You always want to set the Horizontal and Vertical offsets to half the size of your image so set them to 100. Make sure Center is checked and "Edge mode" is set to Wrap. This will split your image Horizontally and Vertically then flip it inside out. Hence making all the edges line up.

Thats it! Below is my image tiling. To use this as a background image on your webpage all you have to do is use a bit of CSS. You can use this technique on almost any image.

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