I know this probably belongs in the other forum but this is my home and the only one I visit so forgive me :) I made a tilable texture but is there anyway to remove the glare without losing detail and color? I have Corel Photopaint 8 but have never really delved into editing of this sort.

first things first, that doesn't quite look tilable to me. as for the answer to your question, sure, no problem. the glare is mostly on the left middle slabs. just copy and paste the right middle blue slabs over them. dra

I cropped the actual one I'm working on to make it tilable and actually thought about the copy and paste after I posted this :) Wonder if there is any other way to do it?

To be honest, I think it would probably be the fastest way.

You need to apply what's called a high pass filter. If corel photopaint doesn't have this you can get the same effect with gaussian blur. Copy the photo and paste as a new layer. Apply a large gausian blur to the new layer that is larger than the biggest feature you want to preserve. (if your squares are 50 pixels across make your blur 70 pixels wide) Convert the layer to a negative image and make the layer 50% transparent. Merge the two layers and this will flatten out the shine from the flash on the top of the image. It will also flatten out the tone and contrast and make the image look flat. Crank up the contrast, tone, and color saturation until the image looks normal again. Now the brightness will be uniform across your image so you can tile it. You should do this before cropping the image to make it tilable.

Aldaron, this link could help you: http://www.3drender.com/light/EqTutorial/tiling.htm

an interesting idea electroglyph. will keep that in mind for future fixes

You mean something like this?

Or this? I guess it depends on how detailed you want the tile to be and how much repitition you can tolerate.

Since it's a repetitious pattern, I don't think it's that the tiling noticeable unless you really mean to look for it.

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DUH! ever realize that you posted to the wrong thread? meant to post that pic in an entirely different place, only just noticed...

I've now shifted it across to the proper thread.

Message edited on: 09/12/2004 08:03

Yep that's what I wanted. Thanks Now to work on the other textures that I took at the office.