Hi guys;
Does anyone have any special tricks to creating Seamless Tiling? I'm trying to create a "Faced Granite", from several excellent jpeg's I shot. I brought them into Photoshop and put a bunch all over the place, rotating and blending. Then into FilterForge for what I hoped was a seamless, and also to create a bump. But there's still a pronounced tiling effect on KS regardless of scale, etc.
Any clues? This would help a lot of us I know... Jeff, how about adding tiling into your next great webinar?
Bill G
Bill,
The best trick is to bring your image into Photoshop like you started, but then go to Filter/Other/Offset. Enter a nominal horizontal and vertical offset value to basically 'push the edges' into the image and then use the 'Clone Stamp' to paint them out. Afterwards I typically, enter another 'Offset' value to make sure I've blended everything adequately.
Poke around in some of the earlier tutorials and/or webinars on the KeyShot website. Somewhere in there, our guys at KeyShot have done a nice job walking through this process a couple times. You can also do a YouTube search on 'Photoshop Seamless Textures', and you'll quickly run across a bunch of videos tutorials covering this simple technique.
Thanks so much for the help!
Bill G
Bill, Glad to be of help!
To Our Friends at KeyShot: 'Creating Seamless Textures' is one of the more common texture map related requests and would be a nice stand alone tutorial in your website tutorials section. ;) Any chance you could break out that portion from one of one of your previous webinars to add to the tutorials?
Try Genetica, brilliant program!
Shivani
Quote from: rkulshrestha on April 13, 2012, 02:47:23 AM
Try Genetica, brilliant program!
Shivani
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seamless tiling is very simple. (In Photoshop)
1. Create your texture. It can be any size, but this example will be 8" x 8".
2. Drag guide lines to the exact horizontal center and the exact vertical center. Or use the selection tool option "fixed size", make it 4"x4"
3. Select the top left area - make a new layer with selection
4. Repeat for all 4 sections
5. Inverting - Move the two layers on the left over to the right - Repeat for right layers. Then move the bottom 2 layers to top - repeat for top layers
6. Make sure nothing is overlapping or there are no gaps.
7. Flatten image
8. Select All and create a new pattern. it will tile seamlessly.