jd123

Many years ago I had a program called Fractal Design Painter. (I don't think the program exists anymore) Anyhow, it allowed you to make an image that would tile seamlessly - every time your brush went off the canvas, it would appear on the canvas in another place and continue to paint. When you tiled the image, the seams would not show. Does anyone know if Photoshop can do this, and if so, how? Thanks so much!

retired_paddza

It's around, it was just bought by Corel. Simply called "Painter" now.

In Photoshop there isn't something that is specifically like that, but you can do similar things using the offset filter. If you have say, a pattern already built that doesn't tile yet, go to filters > other > offset and tell it to offset vertically and horizontally. Then go to the areas where the seams are and fix those areas. Since the borders are now what used to be the center, they're already tiled properly, so if you make the now center seamless, it will tile without seams. Not quite the same thing, but it works.

There is also a "pattern maker" filter since about version 7... but it just kind of makes... weird patterns. You don't have a lot of control over how it tiles, so you can't really do complex tiling and have it look right... it's more of a kaleidoscope effect.

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