Make Repeating Seamless Tile Backgrounds with Photoshop
Monday, March 24th, 2008This tutorial is a guest post by Pixblix.com
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Not every image will lend itself well to a repeating background. I like to select a portion of an image that already has a bit of a pattern to it and also has similar colors, say for example a group of flowers. For this tutorial, I’ve chosen an 800×600 portion from a picture of spring fruit tree blossoms. For now it is much easier to work with a larger image than a tiny one; you can resize the tile when it is finished. The objective of this tutorial is to modify the photo so that the bottom edge matches up with the top edge and the left edge matches with the right creating a seamless, repeating background when it is tiled.

- Turn the photo inside out so that all of the corners are inverted to the center of the photo. Do this by choosing the Offset filter: (more…)

















