thundering1, " For a moment, don't worry about tiled/non-tiled/etc. Don't think about how it's gonna be "applied"." Okay.... "The Galvanized Metal picture - did you save it as a Photoshop doc with the blobs on their own layer, and the criss-cross on its own layer as well?" Yes.

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