Here's a quick and easy, fast and stupendously simple tile for one of the most elegant, traditional and subtle background you could want!  The parchment.  You make your basic tile and then colorize. You can use white or any shade of the grey in the color picker.

Using the same color for colorizing on each of the five grey levels, I got these samples for you.  The reason you can't use other colors is because to get a true parchment, you must greyscale, then increase the colors back to true color.

I prefer the pale shades, so I'm using white and the only external filter you may need is FMTools' 'seamless tile'.  The pictures don't really need any explaining but let's go get that parchment tile.
 

Step 1
Open a new image (you can choose a background color right here but I prefer to flood fill it.

Step 2
Flood fill with white (or your grey choice).

Step 3
Add noise with the settings of

35% and Random.  Click OK.

Tile looks like this.

Step 4
Greyscale the image for the subtle blending.

Step 5
Increase the color back to 16 million colors.

Step 6
Use the Gausian Blur for the parchment effect

Set it to 3
You can save you image to your patterns folder in PSP for flood filling and colorizing at this point if you wish, but I would Desk Check the seamless tiling first.

Step 7
Next colorize the tile

Choose your color by changing the Hue and the Saturation to suit yourself.

Your tile should be a softly deckled blend of one color as in my background.

Step 8
Save your tile.

Step 9
Using my DeskChecking tutorial, check your tile to make sure it is seamless - if it's not, use FMTools' Seamless tile filter with default settings first with 'Vertical' unchecked and then again with 'Vertical' checked.  Repeat deskchecking.

Finished.
Now you can use your tile as a background tile or flood fill pattern.

Close WIndow when Finished.

tutorial by CSGreen