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Easy Textures - Hmm...

Start with a new image, Size 300x300.
Background Color: White, 16 Million Colors.

Step 1:
Select Black as foreground color.
Click on the Airbrush tool and choose Size = 10, Shape = Round, Opacity = 20, Paper texture = None.
Draw something like this:

Step 2:
Choose Image - Deformations - Motion Blur.
Set Direction = 180, Intensity = 40 Pixels.

Step 3:
Choose Image - Special Filters - Emboss.

Step 4:
Now letīs give it some color.
Choose Colors - Colorize. I used Hue = 190, Saturation = 30.

Step 5:
Choose Image - Resample - 150x150.

If you are going to use it as background, click here to see the result.
Make it seamless using the technique showed in the Seamless Tiles tutorial.

To optimize your images for best web
performance - try WebVise Totality
from Auto F/X. Download a demo now
and see for yourself.

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