Help with pattern-seamless?

[robertw477]

I want to take a small part of an image and create a pattern. When I tru to apply the pattern to a large area it ends up looking like 500 tiles of the small sampled pattenr area. I would like it as one large seamless pattern/texture. Is this possible and how do I do it. Appreciate all help.

Rob

 

[SPYDERIX]

Hi,

You can acheive this by using the offset filter. FILTER|OTHER|OFFSET.

I just did a google search to find a tutorial and they all come up with the same results, use the offset filter.

http://the-internet-eye.com/TIPS/psd_tiles/PSD_tiles_jv.htm

I will try to find a better tutorial than that though for you, but for now that should do the trick.

Hope this helps!

NATE
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http://www.spyderix-designz.com

 

[Manic]

SPYDERIX is right.

if you use the offset filter with values half of your original tiled image size you can create seamless textures.

Some things to keep in mind are:

try to have an even number of pixels.
flip between the normal and the offset image.
images that are are a multiple of 8 seem to work better.

once you are happy with the origonal image try tiling it as a 2x2 square. Anything that loos odd should be spotted at that stage.

to get them right takes a lot of little tweaks. using tools like stamp at 50% opacity helps.

Manic
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