Thanks Lynda, much appreciated. 🙂
The techniques I use to create background papers are as follows:-
1. Find a non copyright graphic that you like (I usually go for abstract flowers through pixabay or somewhere like that).
2. Resize to 3600×3600 (doesn’t matter if it goes out of shape as you only want it for an overlay).
3. Adjust Hue and Saturation, colorize, sliders at zero.
4. Then apply the filter Eliminate White (sometimes I will use eliminate black but mostly white). At this point I save the image as a .png for future use.
5. Open a 3600×3600 blank image and flood fill with a solid color to suit your project.
6. Add the .png image as a new raster layer.
7. Adjust the blend mode to whatever you prefer along with the opacity. In the following example I used soft light and left the opacity at 100.
8. Merge visible and apply a texture (I used Filters Unlimited, Paper Textures, Canvas Fine.
I hope this makes sense for you Lynda but should you need any clarification on anything just holler! The images below are numbered 1 – 8 in order of above … just in case they lose their order when uploading. ;D
background-paper-8-texture-added-filters-unlimited-paper-texture-canvas-fine-1
background-paper-7-overlay-blend-mode-soft-light-opacity-left-at-100-1
background-paper-6-overlaid-1
background-paper-5-solid-1
background-paper-4-eliminate-white-1
background-paper-3-colorized-1
background-paper-2-resized-1
background-paper-1-original-1
