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Ampa:
Hello folks, thought I'd pick the collective mind...

I am looking for a program to turn a photo into a seamless tilable texture.

Requirements...


* Either a Photoshop plugin or stand alone

* Should work from a range of common image formats - JPG PNG GIF

* Allows for large(ish) textures - many apps seem limited to 256x256 or there abouts

* Freeware
I have searched this evening and did find...

Texture Maker (Demo of commercial app - free for non-commercial work) [Limited to 512x512 pixels]
Redfield Seamless Workshop (Freeware) - utterly incomprehensible interface, could produce nothing worth looking at!

Any ideas?

Thanks

Ampa

rjbull:
Don't have a direct answer, but a great source of free software suggestions, especially for graphics and the Web, is Ken Laninga's list,  http://www.sticksite.com/freesoft.htm  Maybe Background Magic from his Page 2, or Reptile from Page 3, would suit?

Ampa:
rjbull: Thanks for the input. However...

Reptile - I know from the distant past. It is a proceedural generator that creates tiles from an algorithm rather than a photographic source. Think mid 90's garish website backgrounds!

Background Magic - I don't know, but the homepage is defunct, just full of spam content :( I did find one screenshot via google, and it looked pretty terrible!

Ampa

tinjaw:
Sorry Ampa, I do not know of any freeware apps that do what you want. But in case anybody else stumbles upon this thread and isn't restricted to freeware, I am aware of another:

Seamless Texture Generator

I also use a filter to generate camouflage patterns:

http://www.vanderlee.com/plugins_camouflage.html

Nighted:
Texture Processor

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