Archives for September, 2008
Tutorial: How-to Create Seamless Texture Patterns
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Creating repeatable patterns is a great skill to have in your toolbox. The technique is a must for creating 3D textures, but can benefit graphic design needs as well.
It’s easy to find a pattern, but not so easy to find one that can be tiled without some work. Usually this is the case:
If you tried to tile this, it wouldn’t work. There isn’t enough of the pattern shown to line up the repeat end to end. Fortunately, there is enough pattern throughout the image to create a full repeat -it just needs some re-arranging.
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