[Award Winner] Tutorial on how to create seamless textures out of anything

[RobA]

Bit of a thread bump...

Attached is a Gimp script that makes a seamless tile using this method. It will work on any rectangular image, and creates a new seamless version.

It registers in the same menu as the default Make Seamless, as Filters->Map->RR Make Seamless...

The name is "RR Make seamless" (Thanks for the technique, RedRobes, I also credit you and your site in the script.)

The only parameter is a "Flatten" amount that lets you adjust the amount of high pass to apply. The default is good in most cases.

Here is an nice autumnal image from CG Texturess


And a random sized crop of the upper left hand corner:


Run through the filter to make a seamless tile:


And a sample of it tiled (1000x1000):


A zip of the script is attached Just unzip and save into your Gimp script folder...

-Rob A>

[RobA]

Just to compare, here is the default GIMP make seamless result on the same cut out bit:


-Rob A>