GIMP TUTORIAL: Create a Seamless Texture

Esbeth
by Esbeth · 2 posts
5 years ago in GIMP
Posted 5 years ago · Author
1. Open A New Document

2. Create a new document

3. Open GIMP. Go to File>New. Enter the size you want your tile to be; I chose 200×200 pixels. Click OK.

4. You now have a blank canvas. Make sure your background and foreground swatches (in the Toolbox panel) are set to the default white and black.

5. If they are not, click the little black and white swatch icon next to the background and foreground swatches.

6. Apply A Filter

7. Choose the Flame filter

8. In the menu bar, go to Filters>Render>Nature>Flame. In the dialog that pops up, you can change the settings around if you wish and see a small preview.

9. Flame is a very variable filter – you will get something completely different each time. You can find all the variations by clicking the “Edit” button at the top.

10. Click OK.

11. Filter Results

12. The result of the Flame filter

13. This is what I have; you will have something else depending on how the Flame filter worked. Let’s see how it looks tile

14. When tiled, this image looks pretty choppy.

15. Yuck, those seams are ugly. So now let’s use the power of GIMP to get rid of them!

16. First, however, let’s save the image.

17. Save the document as a .xcf

18. Go to File>Save, navigate to the folder you want to save the image in, and type in a name

19. I find it helpful to put the image size after the name so that when I’m looking for it later I can easily choose the right image

20. I chose “texture_flame_200”. GIMP will save it as a .xcf file.

21. Make the Tile Seamless

22. Go up to Filters again and choose Filters>Map>Make Seamless.

23. Done.
Posted 4 years ago
thanks for that tutorial,
i guess i'll need it soon

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