Any clues on Seamless Tiling?

[Speedster]

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

[br3ttman]

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.

[Speedster]

Thanks so much for the help!
Bill G

[br3ttman]

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?

[rkulshrestha]

Try Genetica, brilliant program!

Shivani

[PhilippeV8]

Try Genetica, brilliant program!

Shivani

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[yakas]

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.