Tutorial: Creating Seamless Textures

If you want to create a seamless texture, you first need a eligible photo. As we want to tile it, it may not have any too eye-catching features on there. Small ones however can be fixed. The most important thing is that the lightning must be even - in many photos, the top is slightly more light than the bottom. Even a small difference in lightning will be striking in a seamless texture. Textures with repeating regular patterns like bricks need to be rotated upright first before being processed further.

We will start with this rock texture. Media:TexTutorialOne.jpg Media:TexTutorialTwo.jpg Media:TexTutorialThree.jpg Media:TexTutorialFour.jpg Media:TexTutorialFive.jpg Media:TexTutorialSix.jpg Media:TexTutorialSeven.jpg Media:TexTutorialEight.jpg Media:TexTutorialNine.jpg Media:TexTutorialTen.jpg Media:TexTutorialEleven.jpg

Filter -> Map -> Small tiles