#CREATE SEAMLESS WOOD TEXTURE FROM PHOTO SKIN#

After making the Seamless tile from the noise layer we need to make it such that it can be used to provide good bump maps for the wood texture. Image-6 Colour exchange dialog with settings. If you are dexterous this method will bring better results as mostly the image have very similar patterns near the seam.Īfter making, it seamless just reverse the offset by again inputting X and Y values in negative and again check for any visible seam and remove it again by using the ‘Smudge’ tool. Now you can use “Smudge” tool (S-key) and very smaller brush size to try to remove the seam in between. The image5 the noise layer has very subtle seam horizontally but very visible seam vertically (note image is zoomed). After changing the offset of the blurred noise layer, yo will get something like this. Just change the X and Y values to half or similar to what the size of an image you made. To make a seamless tile manually, select the blurred noise tile if not selected, press ‘Ctrl+Shift+O’ It will open the offset dialog box (see Image4). It is pretty straight forward but requires more work, again it will give better results. But for our work this will show visible patterns. You can do that by Filters>Map> Seamless. To remove seams there are two methods in GIMP first one is the filter which will make your tile seamless by using the image info at four corners and then overlapping them. To create a tileable image, it is necessary that we do not have seams in the image.

Now change the mode of the motion blurred noise layer to ‘Divide’ from Normal. To smoothen the motion blur again apply the ‘Motion blur’ filter but this time in opposite direction I.e. Go to Filters>Blur>Motion Blur a motion blur dialog box will pop-up. You can keep a duplicate of the noise layer if you want to experiment more.

#CREATE SEAMLESS WOOD TEXTURE FROM PHOTO SKIN#

Now we will create the wood skin pattern from the noise layer.

Then go to Filter> Noise> Scatter RGB and un-check independent there, and use 0.56 as the value. Those of you who are using Gimp2.2pre first you need to have a white layer instead of transparent. Rename the layer to ‘noise’ or something you favour. Un-check independent in the Noisify dialog box and increase the setting to 0.76. Create a new transparent layer and go to Filters> Noise> Noisify. Chose any colour you wish your texture to begin with or use colour dropper to pick the colour from the image below. This tutorial can be adapted in other similar graphics manipulation programs. Before you proceed you will need to have GIMP2, although this isn’t a requirement, but you might lose way if you have older versions. The aim of this tutorial is to create a tileable wooden texture, which can be used as a base for other modifications and is described with an example. This tutorial will be easy enough for a new user to GIMP as well as intermediate users of GIMP.

Create seamless wood texture from photo