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@Phil—
Using Live Copy is a terrific way of quickly making variations on a tile that is set up properly, and thanks for suggesting this, Phil!
Here's an example; you have to be careful about using the Shape Builder and the Ersaer on a Live Copy that has a shadow, and I don't see where you can specify that the Live Copy lands precisely on top of the original, but none of this is a deal-breaker. All you do after Arrange>Live Copy, is select the two of them, Ctrl+Shift+L, align centrally, and you're good to go.
Try experimenting with the attached Xara file. You need the Pro version.
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My Best,
Gary
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@ Gare: At last I had an opportunity to follow your destructions. Once I got hold of the idea of the transparent bitmap copy resized as a repeating tile over the cheese & tomato it was easy. Thanks, Gary.
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@ Bob...Tastefully done, Sir! (my destructions?!)
I created a 1961 counter top pattern, as long as we are on a kitchen theme here.
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@Frances—the tapestry is BEAUTIFUL. Continue along these lines, I recommend. It's by far the m ost elegant and multi-purpose tile you have going on this thread!
My Best,
Gary
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I made these repeating mosaic seamless tiles by using Spray for Xara, nothing to techy but they work fine as seamless tiles, not sure to what use though :D
Stygg
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Hi Sygg—
No bitmap is an island. I can think of a use for your tile right away, just not in Xara.
It would make a great bump map for a snakeskin texture!
Hey, try thin with a decent sized copy and Xara's Live Effects bump filter.
-g-
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I once rented a flat in Cheltenham and the kitchen wallpaper was a bit like the attached, only more garish, think primary yellow orange and purple (this was the 1970s). Needless to say we ate in the dining room. Inspired by Gare's interlocked circles, I made a variation of my own for this. The .xar file is attached.
Bob.
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Hi Gary,
not to sure what you mean with "thin" anyhow I tried the bump map and the result I got was rather snake like, although I doubt the colour. I've uploaded the xar. file in case anyone wants to adapt this or find use for it.
Stygg
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@stygg...
My mistyping. Try this with...
It looks very nice. Click here to watch "SnakeSkin:The Motion Picture"
Hey, there are a lot of uses for a seamless tile. Stygg's would also make nice panels for a leather-working brochure.
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Better late then never I've heard.
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Great tutorial, here are my efforts...
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Thanks Frances. It is loosely based on the shirt I was wearing yesterday. :D
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@Bill—
I've never known you to be a Fashion Risk. I learn something new every day! :)
@xtom—
Beautiful work, nice, large elements, asymmetry is very appealing. I'd like to include this one in a forthcoming Free Stuff on the Xara Xone, if you agree.
My Best,
Gary
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Thanks Gare, feel free to include them.
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That's really good short clip of colours on snake skin, how did you make that? I've tried but can't achieve it. :o
Stygg
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Oh, that took some doing, Stygg.
I painted your seamless texture onto a model I created with Luxology modo, using Photoshop Extended CS5, although there are $25 porgrams that let you paint along a 3 dimensional topology.
Then I animated it, and added some ambient sounds with the KORG WaveStation plug-in, a very Retro device.
The lesson, were I to teach one, it that there is plenty of different software you can use to build something with a convergence of programs. Your media doesn't have to end up in Xara, nor does other content need to stay in its native file format. Modeling programs, Xara, and image editors can all be used to create a "mixed media" piece.
Xara is my personal artistic "hub", from which other programs reach in and out.
Can I include this tile in the Free Stuff collection I'm trying to put together?
My Best,
Gary
@Everyone: if you post a tile and want to share it, write something like:
As the author of this media, I freely give permission for its use in a collection that is free for download at TalkGraphics. (with your name afterwards).
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@xtom—
I took the liberty or working your pattern into a layout.
Hey @everyone: in the spare time you don't have, it might be educational for others to show how you can work your pattern into a design; signage, menus, parts lists, magazine ads...
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My Best,
Gary
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@Bob, regarding your flat's wallpaper—
I like the colours you used, forgetting what your wallpaper inspiration might be.
And don't hesitate to overlap elements! Those circles and paperclippish-looking guys could be overlapped.
My Best,
Gary
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By all means please feel free to include the skin tile in the Free stuff collection.
As the author of this media, I freely give permission for its use in a collection that is free for download at TalkGraphics. Stephen Whittle.
Stygg :)
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Here's an "Auto-Tiler" document using Live Copies.
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Phil
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That auto tiler is very interesting I'm going to have a play with it later, Thanks Phil
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What fun, Phil!
Here's a whack at modifying the design...
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Read Phil's instructions in the file, the file is version 8 specific so don't try working with it in 6 or something, and first, unlock all the layers before you have fun.
Thanks, Phil!
Gary
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the file is version 8 specific
Seems to be fine in DP7, Gary. Live copies were introduced in that version.
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Thanks for pointing that out, Steve.
It's hard to keep track of what versions introduced which new features.
My Best,
Gary
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Here's a slightly revised version. Everything's technically the same but I've corrected the text and improved the pattern.
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This is a bit like a simplified/stylised William Morris wallpaper pattern...
Phil
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The idea of using Live Copies for patter-making is a fascinating one, Phil.
It got me to thinking this afternoon about textile work, so I began working on an argyle pattern. surely, variations on a single, well-designed argyle pattern would have a lot of commercial purposes.
I've attached it if anyone would like to play with it and improve upon it.
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I have an idea for that Argyle pattern Gary in the meantime here is another powerful long time Xara feature at work in a seamless tile... Named Colours :)
This tile took a lot of fiddling to get the look I was after. Again I recycled bits and pieces from drawings I already had, and the drawings were done with named colours so many elements in this tile are easily colour changeable. The .xar has two green rectangles with the noise filter applied. To create a new tile from this click between the rose canes to select the smaller one and create your bitmap copy or export from there. If you make any adjustments to the noise filter on one of the rectangles you must make the same adjustments on the other to avoid seams.
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I used Auto-Tiler2 to make an argyle pattern then experimented with drawing continuous lines on top of it.
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Brill Gary learn't something new, which is always nice!.
Attached a 'pretty' flutterby thingy. Knocked up the vector, converted to bitmap then changed the light contones to get the different colours. Added transparrency at 70%.
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Plus a banana man:
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Antspants—
Lovely work. Would you like one or both pieces included in a Giveaway bundle I'm going to assemble?
BTW, "knocked up" means something different than you intended here in the U.S. The gentler euphemism for "knocked up" here is "in a family way". :)
My Best,
Gary
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Sorry Gary I should have said, yes of course anything you see fit. The butterfly one looks quite nice (if I may boldly suggest prehaps slightly 'girly' oh how sexist!) as a background to a web page. As with both of these the vectors have been done from scratch so no problems with ownership etc.
Here are a couple more I did yesterday but probably not suitable (and not that good!):
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I did the 'bertie' vector from scrat but probably breaching a load of stuff with 'Bassets'
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Was meant to be a sort of 'Mods' target but didn't get the effect right!
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One more, old TUT from Xhris on using bump map live effect to create a slight 3d look for spheres. Made a bitmap of one and just adjusted the contone to suit. Bit tricky but all lines up and does look quite bold. Think this one would be an 'aquired taste' and won't be to everyones liking!.
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I just thought I could give it a try with some bubbles.
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Well your try turned out really good guyke :D
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Just made a seamless tile but this time with the rectangle turned on to its corner so to speak, made the bitmap alpha, got a good effect, and can anyone tell me why when I try to add noise to a rectangle and create a bitmap, it shows all the lines when repeating tile is selected ?
Stygg.
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Hi Stygg—
Noise by its very nature won't tile seamlessly, because there's a randomness, an unpredictability to noise, whereas a perfectly tiling pattern has completely predictable elements. IOW, you have control over your tile's elements, you have none with noise.
That's not to say there's no such thing as seamless tiling noise; see and use the attached png in your work. You just have to define your tile size as 512 × 512 pixels. What I did was render a piece of noise, and then offset it so see any edgework, and when the edges were located at the center of the tile, I cloned the edges away.
Also, fractal noise (they should be simply called "fractals") come in two kinds, depending on the math used to create them. There are terminating, and non-terminating fractal graphics. Not to promote Photoshop on this forum, but the Filters>Render>Clouds uses a self-terminating fractal recipe that will tile perfectly if you define a file that's 256 square, or a multiple of 256 pixels.
@Phil—on my wish list would be fractal recipes in addition to what we have now. I'm not certain all of these names mean anything, or if they are all classic fractal patterns, but they do self-terminate, and I copied the names out of Cinema 4D. And I'm figuring MAXON is a Germany company, and MAGIX is a Germany company, so perhaps the names mean something:
Box Noise
Cell Noise
Dents
Displaced Turbulence
Electric
Gaseous
Hama
Luka
Naki
Nutous
Ober
Cell Voronol
Sema
Here's a few examples:
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My Best,
Gary
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I have found a trick to create textures with Xara's add noise plug in. I apply the noise filter and then clone my rectangle then hold down the minus key on the number pad and make the clone bigger. Send the clone to the back and select the original rectangle and make your tile.
Here is a tile I created using noise and embossing (yes embossing!) to create the sand. There is another trick for embossing and you need the new eraser tool to do it. It works like the noise trick except I use a large very soft eraser to erase the lines that show up when you emboss. Then create your true colour bitmap copy or export and the transparent areas of the tile that you masked out with the eraser will show the same background of the larger underneath rectangle. The rocks were done with layers of fractal transparencies.
Here is the tile and the zipped png.
Gary: if you would like to include this in the collection I give my permission.
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Thanks for the noise Png Gary, it works good. I made a rect. gave it a green fill sent it to the back of the drawing then gave the noise Png a transparency for the amount of noise I wanted to show through. I know I can't alter the actual amount of noise as the Live effects tool but this method is ok, plus you can give the Png Trans. any colour. All I want now is a folder full of various noise Png's :D
Stygg
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Yeah, from your lips to Xara's ears, Stygg.
It's much, much more efficient to have a fractal generator within a program, like Fractal Clouds, than it is to generate a billion bitmaps of a result.
Let me see what I can do to generate a few different fractal noise patterns.
We got a holiday weekend here in the States.
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If you can accept that:
1.) The more visually complex the pattern, the more interesting it can be, and
2.) Filters (Live Effects, specifically 3rd party ones) can add detail, then...
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I messed around with the Shape Builder and Eraser, progressively making bitmap copies and offsetting them, and then cloning over the seams, then finally I used Alien Skin's Snap Art filter, Pastels, and this required another offset and clone work.
But I think it's abstract and muted and therefore can be used on fancy book spines instead of "peacock paper" and other graphics needs.
My Best,
Gary