Seamless Texture Tiles in Gimp

[pixotica]

Download Gimp the freeware Paint program
I found this tute online, it works perfect for me, this is how I make my texture tiles.

Start With an Image
Let's start with a random digital image of carpet. Initially it looks awful; there are large occluding shadows, light is uneven and its bigger than what we need. Our first step is to crop our image so we just have the content we like. It's best of our proportions are equal and our image width and height is a power of two, such as 768x768. This will allow us to more efficiently use the image when applying it as a texture to a 3D mesh.

Next, scale your image down to a reasonable size less than 512 pixels wide. For this purpose, we'll just use an image size of 128x128 pixels.


Our carpet, cropped and scaled Our carpet, made seamless

Next, chose Filters->Map->Make Seamless. You'll notice that the corners of the image turn inward a bit and the edges become a bit altered. It may not at first look like it, but GIMP has magically adjusted your image so that multiple copies of this image tiled together will look like a single, seamless carpet. Go ahead and try it out!

[PizzaLover101]

yeah, I found gimp awhile ago, lol

[chocolatepie33]

I should try this sometime... make a good brick texture.

[tyche]

I've got about 4 meg of textures that I made with GIMP and photographs. Believe me, it can be done. And seamlessly, too.

Craig
Tyche

[chocolatepie33]

you gonna upload them? Have them used in 2.6 as default textures?

[PizzaLover101]

Maybe, cuz this topic was created in Feb. They are in 2.5