Amazing what you find when you finally get that film developed. ;) Tileable and it looks pretty good using it as the bump channel as well. I've got a few more that I haven't finished with yet. I'll post them as I get them done. Rich

That's really cool, thank you Rich. (: Genny

That's why I'm leaning towards getting a digital camera. ;-) That and the fact that the stupid film developer doesn't bother to "print" the "bad" exposures. Sometimes they think that shot of the maple wardrobe side panel must have been a mistake and don't give it to me! Arrrrg! Thanks for the texture. jon

 
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Thanks Rich, really can't have too many textures.

Great thanks, it will do well with my other ones. Sharen

Hope you will continue to bring more textures ! Yves

Looks good Rich, thanks!

I've done this before, take a picture of some grass or the side of a tree, with my digital camera . . . but how do you make the image tileable??? -Christoph

Attached Link: http://www.3drender.com/light/EqTutorial/tiling.htm

I'm not sure what the names of everything are in Paintshop Pro, but here's how I did it in Photoshop. Selected an area of the picture that was 512x512 and cropped to that size, select Filter>>Other>>Offset and set the horizontal and vertical values to half the width and height (in this case, 256x256) You should then have something like the attached pic. Last use the clone tool to blend in the 'crosshairs'. When you're done, it should tile nicely. I also evened out the luminance of the picture before I started making the texture. Tutorial for that at the link. Hope this made sense, Rich

Yeah, there's supposedly a way to do it in Painter, but I've still not bothered to learn it. It looks complicated. Doesn't P-Shop have a plugin or whatever that will just do it automatically for you, with no work?

There really isn't alot of work to it. It took me about 20 minutes to do it including equalizing the luminance. You have a digital camera don't you Mike? You should figure out how to do it in Painter. I bet you could come up with all sorts of cool textures.

Ok, I see what you mean. Nice tutorial, btw. MikeJ, I had a plugin that was supposed to do that, but it didn't work worth crap. There are a few programs that will let you generate tiling images from procedural algorithms, but I haven't seen anything that does it from existing images.

Attached Link: http://www.imaxx.net/~shawn/seamless.html

Flaming Pear has a little plug-in called Tesselation that makes "instant" tiling versions of images. At the link are some simple tutorials for creating seamless tiles. Good with any paint program.

Yeah, I tried that one, but it didn't do much of anything.