Before you start working on these various flooring tutorials, I want to review a few basics you will need to know.
Freehand Select/Point
to Point: You will need to use this to select and delete angles
of the flooring. Click on the Freehand tool, the rope. Now
bring up your Tool Options. Change the type to Point to
Point. Left click to select the points along your lines and angles.
To get the selection to release, right click.
The Deform Tool:
You can do much more than just squeeze an object down, up, in and out.
If you put the cursor over one of the squares on the corners and hold down
the Ctrl key on the keyboard, you get a Trapezoid over that
square. Continue to hold down the Ctrl key and move your selection
around. Look at how you can alter the perspective of the object!
To rotate with the Deform Tool, move your cursor to the right
of the center of the image. See that second square? You will
notice the circling arrows that come up. Now you can rotate your
image while holding down the left mouse button.
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Resizing: When resizing any of the jpgs for use as flooring or wallpaper, it's best to also use the option of bicubic resample. It tends to give you a better image on reduction. Note here: if resizing text, use the pixel resize.
1. Building a room from the floor up.
2. Laying horizontal wood floors.
3. Laying vertical wood floors.
4. Mirroring a pattern floor.
5. Putting in a tile floor.
Flooring 1 I Flooring 2 I Flooring 3 I Flooring 4 I Flooring 5