Seamless Textures With Photoshop

In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to create a seamless texture from a photo source. Very short and easy tutorial, have fun!


Here is the original texture:
http://cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=5656
Make sure you check out the whole site, its amazing! To download the texture you have to register a free account I believe

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Photoshop
• Texture
• Seamless
• 2D
• photo
• editing
• tutorial
• Graphics

[jack23z]

how do you save it as a texture so you can use it again?

[BelYo]

@jack23z huh? You mean like export it as, say Jpeg or tga? just go to file-> save as... and chose the format you want to save it in.

[q009q009]

Great tutorial, thanks!

But for detailing you should set the brush more smooth IMO :)

[BelYo]

@q009q009 Hmm I think it really depends on what texture you're doing. From my experience, when I use a smooth brush I lose a lot of detail in crisp textures, like rock or grass (with hard edges etc.) due to the blur. But when doing soft textures like water or sand or something it's prolly better to use a smooth brush ;)

[Zhegan]

Very nice tutorial! I was doing it a completely different way (I removed the seams with a layer mask and blended the masked layer until it matched the layer underneath). The only change I'd make to this tutorial is to offset it by 1/4 instead of 1/2, using the filter twice the first time and one last time to get rid of any left over seams from the outer edges (once you offset the third time any remaining seams should be near the top right and bottom left corners, very easy to remove).

[BelYo]

@Zhegan that's an interesting approach, thanks for sharing! Will try as soon as I get around doing some new textures!

[polmod]

thanks bro! :)

[rbarysas]

Thank you!

[andybdm]

Fantastic tutorial, can you tell me how this would work with brickwork and the cement mortar beds and joints?

[speedgamer01]

Thank you!

[Jarzka1990]

Cool but is there any plugin to automate this :P?

[edwin11373]

Thanks man for this tutorial. I learned a lot.

[ekstrajohn]

I was making seamless textures for a long time, but this approach is better. How didn't I think of that? :) Thanks!

[soholino]

lol nice video. By the way the best seamless textures I've ever found on internet are Liman textures

[Aleque]

Thanks :)