How to quickly create colorized image with TV-like grid; also useful for creating backgrounds.

Old TV - Step 1

Suppose you have an image you want to put into an old TV or just apply similar effect to it.

Old TV - Step 2
The first step is to colorize the image. The unsafe way to do it is Hue/Saturation dialog (Ctrl-U, Colorize checkbox). But you will lose original image, and though you can always duplicate a layer to aviod losing the sources, I prefer to create new layer and fill it with solid color.

Old TV - Step 3

... and then change its blend more from "Normal" to "Color". This will make image from layer 1 use the color from layer 2.

Old TV - Step 4

Next, we need a TV grid. Create a new (temporary) image with 1 pixel width and 4 pixels height.

Old TV - Step 5

Use pencil tool or gradient tool to do an image similar to shown here. Then, select all (Ctrl-A) and define a pattern (Edit menu -> Define Pattern).

Old TV - Step 6