A different tile style with Blade Pro
This tutorial shows you how to make a tile like this:

Step 1:
 - Create a new image, 200 x 200, Dark Green on Black
- Draw in some clean shapes using the rectangle and circle tools.
Note: It is important that the lines join across the sides.
Draw the lines first (as thin rectangles) running from one side to the other
the draw over in black to remove the parts of lines you do not want.
Step 2:
 - With the Magic Wand, select the green area
- Fire up Blade Pro, Select the "Lattice Example" preset
- With all work like this you must reduce the radius to 0, otherwise
you get button effects where they are not wanted.
Step 3:
 - Now apply Greg's Pool Shadow (or other Pool Shadow if you have one)
this gives just a little more interest and depth to this section.
Step 4:
 - Now invert the selection
- Fire up Blade Pro again, select the "Yellow Net" preset.
- Reduce the radius to 0 again.
Step 5:
 - Now apply the standard 3D Cutout sequence
to give the upper layer an edge.
- Then apply drop shadow, Opacity: 100, Blur=20; Offset=3.
- You might want to add drop shadow more than once to really deepen the effect
- Notice in the example above, the cut-out sequence has left traces at the
very edges of the effect. You will need to crop just within this area to create
your tile.
- You can quickly trial your tile by opening a new 500 x 500 image,
- Select Flood Fill, Pattern, Options and select your new tile as the pattern.


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