Paint shop pro X » Diagonal scan lines
Diagonal scan lines could have been really easy to make, if it wasn't for PSP X's stupidity. You could easily have made a 4 x 4 px picture, with 2 px colored, 2 px not, then made it into a texture and colored the parts you wanted with this texture. Now, Corel has found out, that it is nice to smoothen the pixels into each other, so you don’t get the clean striped look, but a solid color – a mix between the stripes. So what to do? What I did, was to make a small image with stripes on, copying it several times until it became big enough, then paste it on my horse picture as a new layer, then played with the opacity and layer types. I'll be kind enough to post my scan lines image:
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Right click and copy or save, then open in PSP. Or if you have PSP x or newer, save this image:
on your computer and open it in PSP (it has transparent stripes instead of white). Paste it on to your picture (I want the lines behind the horse, so I've pasted it between the horse and the background layer):
Doesn't look very nice, so let's do something with the stripe-layer… First I will fade the edges a bit. Choose a large soft eraser brush, and erase the edges:
Then, I've set the layer type to "burn", as that looked best on my picture. Overlay, hard light, soft light or any of the other types might look better on your picture, so try out all the types before deciding. Then I reduced the opacity to about 70 %:
The result:
The proper way of doing this, and how you would do it in Photoshop, would be to create a 2 x 1 pixel image (go to new image, set the width to 2 and height to 1 px) then fill one of the pixels with the color you want the stripes to have:
This is zoomed 5000 times up. If you want thicker lines, create a bigger image (6 x 1 pixels) and color more lines (3 colored, 2 blank for example). Now, in the materials section to the right (where the color boxes are), click on the "dot" below the color (green circle), then the pattern dot (red circle):
Now, click in the color box (red circle), a option box will appear, open all patterns by clicking on the arrow next to the current pattern (green circle) and choose the pattern with the stripes (blue circle):
Now, set the angle to 45 (that's what makes them diagonal):
The result does look kind of bad in psp:
