There Must Be A Better Way

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Possibly The Most Annoying And Time Consuming Parts Of Skinning For Me Is Making The MDI Background, Dialog Bg, And Explorer Background Images. I Literally Spend Hours Upon Hours, Trying To Line Up The Images Just Right, So They Tile Seamlessly. And Eventually I Get Frustrated And Just Use Sort Of A "Blow-off" Image Per Say. Currently To Make Tile Images Such As These I'm Using A Quake Texture Editor, And As Great And Easy As It May Make The Chore The Lack Of Colors The Editor Supports Is Quite Disgusting... Anyhow To The Point... Does Anyone Know Of A GOOD Editor That Has A Tile Editing Mode?

-MindlessPuppet
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think PSP has a "make image tileable" function. You can also just reverse the image all four ways to get it to tile. CorelDraw comes with a texture editor that will generate seamless tiles.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yep. The GIMP also has a lot of useful image filters for this sort of thing. It's a thing artists have to do quite often, so the tools are well-developed.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Reptile is a seamless tile editor- I thinks I found it on download.com
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yes PSP can do it. Painter Classic will also.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
In Photoshop:
Filter/Other/Offset
Then select a horizontal and vertical value that corresponds approximately to half the width and height of your image and you'll see the seams. Then you can use the clone tool to smudge and fade the seems. It's really effortless once you get used to it, depending on the texture of course.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Picture Publisher from Micrografx has a feature for creating tiled images that works really well. It is under the 'Effects - Wizards - Tile Creator' menu options. I am currently using Version 8.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i tried to find Picture Publisher from Micrografx but i can't well i did find version 10 at download.com but when i tried to get it the page could not be desplayed the program is no longer available.