From: Phyllis McGillicutty < jmac798%40yahoo.com">jmac798
yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:36:28 -0700 (PDT)
[a few typos corrected here]
> Hello, I have the Gimp Program for Windows.
> I have some images that i want to do the steps to
> make it a seamless tiled image.
GIMP has a "filters => map => make seamless"
function, but it almost certainly isn't what you
want, it seems to just blend the image with a copy
of itself wrapped half the image size vertically and
horizontally, and the results are pretty ugly.
> Then I want to take that seamless tiled image and
> make my 360 page background with this tile.
If that "360" was meant to be in that sentence, then
I have no clue what you meant to say here. Were you
looking to make the image a web page background, or
a stationary background, or a screen wallpaper, or
what?
> Would someone please either help me with
>; instructions, step by step, or tell me of a
> tuitorial that would explain each step for me to
> learn how to do this.
Making images seamless is pretty easy, _if_ the
image has easy border to tie to one another,
horribly difficult otherwise, so the first thing to
do is to pick a good candidate image.
Next, bring (a copy of) that image up in GIMP, and
type CONTROL-SHIFT-o. This brings up the image
displacement requestor. Choose the "offset by x/2
y/2" button and then click "OK". This puts the edges
of your image instead in the middle, abutted as a
"+" centered in the center of your image. Use
appropriate tools to fudge the border into
seamlessness, the "smudge" tool (looks like a
pointing finger) works fairly well, so does the
"clone" tool (looks like a camera). The clone tool
does a better job, it's just (much) harder to learn
to use, and to use well.
When you have smeared the image borders around
enough that they don't make a distinct "+" any more,
shift the image again by x/2, y/2 and save it as a
pattern using the script-fu => selection => pattern
menu item. This puts it into the "patterns"
sub-directory of your personal GIMP data directory.
That directory is hidden somewhere really obscure,
using Linux/Unix conventions that simply stink when
use for MS-Windows. On my system, where my user name
is "xanthian", that subdirectory would be found at:
c:documents and settingsxanthian.gimp-2.2patterns
Your installation may have put it elsewhere.
[I've made myself a private copy of that
"pattern" making script-fu that doesn't
embed the image window number into the
pattern's file name (a really obnoxious
behavior of the present version), but you
can always just strip that image window
number out of the file name by hand. I make
_hundreds_ of patterns for GIMP (from
proprietary images, so I can't share them),
so I had to fix the script-fu to stay sane.
[Taking stuff _out_ of a script-fu is pretty
easy, putting stuff in is for people who
know the callable GIMP command names and
their required parameters in Scheme, which I
do not.]]
> I desperately need help and would greatly
> appreciate any help someone could give me.
> thank you so Much....
> Jess
I'm not sure if all this text conveys readably the
really small amount you needed to know, I type a lot
faster than I cull excess words, but perhaps it will
help.
xanthian.
.
