April 2014 Giveaway - Ten Free Textures and a Tutorial on how to Use Them

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That is a very bizarre composition, Frances, and I LOVE it!

By the way, you can use some of the textures, past and present, to make spheres with textures that conform to the curvature of the sphere by:

1. Use the Mould tool in Encelope mode and use the Circular setting.

2. Then use the Live Effect>Deformation>Fisheye lens.



It seems to take two applications of distortion to actually get a pattern to bulge at the centre and recede at the edges.. File's attached.

My Best,

Gary



P.S. I didn't bother to make the check pattern into a bitmap, the but steps will work with a group of vectors or bitmaps images.