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First open a
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Paste a texture into the
file, or you may save my texture. To save it, Right Click and choose "Save
As" to download (Mac: Press and hold mouse button on the image, Select
Save from the popup menu).
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 Now go to
Filter>Other>Offset. For Horizontal Enter 75 and Vertical
enter 75. The value is always half of one direction, so if the image was
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 In most
images you should now see seams. We need to cover them up. After we do,
then it becomes a pattern. An easy way to cover up the seams is with the
Rubber Stamp Tool. Select this tool from the tool bar.
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 Choose a soft
brush, about 45 to 65 pixels wide. Make sure Caps Lock is off so you can
see the brush radius. | |
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 Hold down the Alt
key (Mac: Option) and click on a spot of the image and then release
the Alt key and click once more on the seam to cover it. By holding down
the Alt key and clicking, you copied a spot on the image, then by clicking
again over the seam you paste it. A soft brush is used to make it blend
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 To save this image as a GIF
file for the web, go to File>Save to Web and compress
it.
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| Testing out the pattern This is something you might want to consider after you have finished the pattern. 1. After you have covered the seams, Select the image: Select>All. Now go to Edit>Define Pattern. 2. Open a new image, make this one much larger like around 500x500 Pixels. 3. Next, to see what the pattern looks like, go to Edit>Fill. Select "Pattern" where it says "Use" and click ok. This should fill the image with the pattern. | |
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Select>All.
Now Image>Crop. This gets rid of any excess data outside the
canvas.
