Wrapping a texture to repeat smoothly Created 18 years ago2006-06-05 21:50:58 UTC by Xyos212

Using Photoshop, does anyone know how to wrap texture patterns to repeat with a seamless pattern?

I thought I knew, but realized after going to more complex textures that my method was wrong. (I used the pattern filter)

i know this is a late reply but try this:
http://forum.interlopers.net/viewtopic.php?t=1968

It was useless for me as i wanted to wrap a tiled texture.

Quick guide written by friend on MSN for me a while ago so please excuse the language:

first of you need to scale your texure to a fitting size, 512x512, 1024x1024 ect

then you "offset" the picture by half, so if 512x512 then you offset it with 256x256

then you have all the edges in the middle

then you just cover em with the clone tool

or you can blur em
but that makes it look blocky

Actually you can see if it will tile properly from within photoshop itself. Select your whole image(must be flattened) with ctrl+a, then go to edit: define pattern. Then make a new document that is many times larger than your original texture document, and go to edit: fill. Fill it with the pattern that you just made. Tah dah. Very Happy

i have the physical method of making looping textures lol:

http://www.elementsgraphics.net/index.php?id=tuttiledbgs