cjmcguinness Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it This is a very simple, straightforward use of a Distort plugin that produces a nice curved tile effect that can be used as a background as, when finished, it will tile perfectly. Moderator note: For the result shown by the author, use only the diamond gradient and finish off using the Rotate/Zoom Plugin with the tile box ticked. To create these curved tiles you will need the Waves plugin. (The Distortion and Ed-Harvry Effects plugins are optional.) - You need to start with a 1000 x 1000 square canvas (I've tried other sizes and this one produces the best results) - Make any design you wish on the canvas; not too intricate as most of the detail will be lost when we do the tiles - I put a very simple diamond gradient - Then EFFECTS > DISTORT > Dents: Scale 50, Amount 100, Turbulence 10. - Now, select EFFECTS > DISTORT > Waves: Radius 1000, X-effect 400, Y-effect 400. - Press CTRL+F to repeat the Waves - you should repeat somewhere between 10 and 20 times to achieve your desired level of detail. 10 x Waves 20 x Waves - Recolour your image by EFFECTS > ED-FECTS > Colour Tint. - You could also use ADJUSTMENTS > Curves and play with the RGB values to colour your image if you prefer. - You can now shrink your image to a size that will tile nicely across a background (Desktop or Webpage). - IMAGE > Resize: I made mine 150 x 150 This is what it looks like tiled across my desktop: You can also view this tutorial on my Googlepages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GangstaCrab Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Nice! It looks M.C. Escher-esque. Maybe I could make a ninja star out of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkbark00 Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 I love M.C. Escher! This pretty neat... Quote Take responsibility for your own intelligence. 😉 -Rick Brewster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Awesome. Quote •♪♫♥♫♪• |- The Rules -|- çobblestones -|- CaMo -|- MeTaL -| ╠═╧╨»Φ«╨╤═╣ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_King Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 cool tutorial Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GangstaCrab Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Nice one, Dark_King Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharky Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 I made a wierd one :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Lionhearted Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 Very nice. Quote My Gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yata Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 Very smooth, nice work. Quote "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" [ dA Paint.NET Chat :: Yata on dA ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JELP Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 cool tutorial Heh, reminds me of the Windows logo. Quote [img]http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i284/JELP/PDN/StuddedSig.png[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nesk Posted April 29, 2007 Share Posted April 29, 2007 Nice tut, here's my go at it: Btw, I added a new layer with a black and white gradient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkbark00 Posted April 29, 2007 Share Posted April 29, 2007 I made this kinda using your tut. Quote Take responsibility for your own intelligence. 😉 -Rick Brewster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlet14 Posted April 29, 2007 Share Posted April 29, 2007 v nice heres my go 13x waves hue 186, sat 33 v nice tut btw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blurb23 Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 Awesome tutorial! cool tutorial I was aiming for a similar effect (actually, what I'm trying to do is basically this ). I've got to the same stage as this picture, but is there any way to have the different color quadrants "smoothly" blend? I've tried gradients (color/transparent, from the outside towards the center), but then that leaves the center of the image black and white. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usedHONDA Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 This is a neat tut. I wonder why I never saw it before. Quote "The greatest thing about the Internet is that you can write anything you want and give it a false source." ~Ezra Pound twtr | dA | tmblr | yt | fb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjmcguinness Posted April 30, 2007 Author Share Posted April 30, 2007 Here's a blended 4-colour one. Once you have your first set of tiles done leave them mono. Start a new imge with a canvas that is twice the size of your original then copy and paste your original in 4 times, tiling to fill the canvas. Create a new layer and divide it into a 4x4 grid, colured as follows: EFFECTS > Blurs > Motion Blur at 90 degrees EFFECTS > Blurs > Motion Blur at 180 degrees This will blend all the colours together. Move your colour layer below the tiles, then set the blending mode on the tile layer to Multiply. Then IMAGE > Canvas Size, by Percentage to 50%, ensuring the Anchor is set to middle. You now have a coloured, blended set of tiles that will also tile seamlessly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 Here's a blended 4-colour one. looks nice but the greys and browns in between the more colorful ones are ... ugh. yeah. Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 The bottom one gives off a nice O.I. when you scroll up and down fast, Flashy! Good job. Edit: Spelling. Quote •♪♫♥♫♪• |- The Rules -|- çobblestones -|- CaMo -|- MeTaL -| ╠═╧╨»Φ«╨╤═╣ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usedHONDA Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 I was thinking the same thing! It should be an animated gif! Quote "The greatest thing about the Internet is that you can write anything you want and give it a false source." ~Ezra Pound twtr | dA | tmblr | yt | fb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blurb23 Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Great tutorial. I really like the effect. One of the ones I ended up with: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yata Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 That's great! Would you care to elaborate on how you made that? Quote "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" [ dA Paint.NET Chat :: Yata on dA ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nesk Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Yeah, I agree with Yata. That result of yours is great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blurb23 Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 That's great!Would you care to elaborate on how you made that? If you're talking about mine, I'm not quite sure What I THINK I did though was follow cjmcguinness's steps above for creating a a 4x4 grid...ish. I used 4 colors, and made a grid that somewhat came close to the size of my tiles, while not having half squares hanging off the sides. I then followed his motion blurring directions. After that, I think I simply duplicated that layer, merged the two "Color Grid" layers down, and then finally set the composite layer's blend mode to Color Burn. ... I think. But thanks for the compliments! That really made my day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surgency Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 awesome effect., oh wow i jus realized. the end result reminds me of the windows logo: http://yourdolphin.com/XStandard/windows_flag.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike 121 Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Quote "No. Dreaming is illegal."~Pyrochild Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.