| Making
Seamless Background Tiles |
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Part
3: Creating seamless tiles with Simple Filters
The seamless tiles on this page are all created with the free simple
filters plugin. I started by cropping a stock photo background and then
I applied several of the filters to the original image. In some cases I used
two different filters one after the other, to give a different effect.
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This is the image I started with
in the following examples. |
Centre
Tile
If
you're not seeing the image tiled, click here
to open a new window with the tiled image.
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 Diamonds
If
you're not seeing the image tiled, click here
to open a new window with the tiled image.
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 Pizza
Slice Mirror
(my
personal favorite)
If
you're not seeing the image tiled, click here
to open a new window with the tiled image.
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 Top
Left Mirror
If
you're not seeing the image tiled, click here
to open a new window with the tiled image.
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 Top
Left Mirror & Diamonds
If
you're not seeing the image tiled, click here
to open a new window with the tiled image.
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 Zoom
Out and Flip
If
you're not seeing the image tiled, click here
to open a new window with the tiled image.
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The
next set of tiles were created from this original image. |
 Centre
Tile
If
you're not seeing the image tiled, click here
to open a new window with the tiled image.
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 Diamonds
If
you're not seeing the image tiled, click here
to open a new window with the tiled image.
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 Pizza
Slice Mirror
If
you're not seeing the image tiled, click here
to open a new window with the tiled image.
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 Pizza
Slice Mirror combined with a custom brush.
If
you're not seeing the image tiled, click here
to open a new window with the tiled image.
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 Top
Left Mirror
If
you're not seeing the image tiled, click here
to open a new window with the tiled image.
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 Zoom
Out and Flip
If
you're not seeing the image tiled, click here
to open a new window with the tiled image.
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 Zoom
Out and Flip & Pizza Slice Mirror
If
you're not seeing the image tiled, click here
to open a new window with the tiled image.
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Hopefully these examples give you an idea of the variety of seamless tiles
that can be created easily with just a few filters. As you can see, a filter
that might not work well on one image, can sometimes work very well when used
on a different image.
More: Software
and Tutorials for Making Patterns and Textures
Some images from
Nova Development's Art Explosion 600,000.
