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<img style="padding: 3px;" src="http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp263/Arty-Miss/TUTORIALS/background-1.jpg" align="left" height="105" width="150">This tutorial is about getting the most out of low resolution background/overlay graphics. It's based on the idea that texture stocks are being used in a very general kind of way and utilizes tiling to enlarge and create a seamless, larger image.
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(If you get confused, think of pieces of pie in a plate - 4 quarter slices are bigger than the single piece you started with on the plate!)
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<img style="padding: 3px;" src="http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp263/Arty-Miss/TUTORIALS/background-2.jpg" align="left" height="112" width="150">Firstly, get your image's dimensions- in this case it's 200x150 pixels.
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Select the image and copy it to the clipboard and don't forget to deselect the image before the next step. In your layers palette create a duplicate of the first image and then delete that first image (which is probably called background.)
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<img style="padding: 3px;" src="http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp263/Arty-Miss/TUTORIALS/background-3.jpg" align="left" height="112" width="95">In your layers palette create a new object and bring it below the first layer, then make the dimensions exactly double that of the image.
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Really heavy math example- NOT:
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200 x 2 = 400
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150 x 2 = 300
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<img style="padding: 3px;" src="http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp263/Arty-Miss/TUTORIALS/background-4.jpg" align="left" height="126" width="150">Select the first object and align it to the TOP LEFT.
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Use the paste button to drop in a duplicate of the first object (which is still on the clipboard) and align it TOP RIGHT then FLIP the object HORIZONTALLY.
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Paste again and align the object BOTTOM LEFT and then flip the object VERTICALLY.
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One more time now:
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paste, align BOTTOM RIGHT, flip VERTICALLY and HORIZONTALLY.
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Then combine the group as one object and there you have it.
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<img style="padding: 3px;" src="http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp263/Arty-Miss/TUTORIALS/background-5.jpg" align="left" height="164" width="240">Obviously, if the original file is quite busy looking (like flowers and leaves) you might avoid doing any flipping and use the cloning tools instead to blot out any noticeable seams.
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