Carbon Fibre look

[kev1e]

Hi am trying to create a carbon fibre pattern look for a website background there is many photoshop tutorials on this technique which i have tryed in xara however with not the same effect, can any one help

Here is a sample of what i am trying to create or something similar

[iamtheblues]

Attached is a quick and dirty attempt.
Draw rectangle, fill with black (default).
Select the fill tool and from the drop down menus select Three Colour and Repeating.
Fill each of the 3 fill handles with different shades of black, and adjust the fill tool until it resembles the example shown.
I've attached the .xar file so that you can play with the result, just select the rectangle with the fill tool and you are, as they say, good to go.
You can see another example of this if you look at my avatar.
Saludos,
Bob.

[steve.ledger]

There's some 'free for personal use' CF textures here

[Big Frank]

Here is a sample of what i am trying to create or something similar

The sample you attached isn't really a seamless tile. Look at how the shadow is repeated over and over again. You'd have to have one seamless using a solid colour that didn't have shadowing on any one side.

Here is the one you attached as a repeating tile:

[covoxer]

Here's the simple one created in Xtreme that I was using some time ago.
You can also rotate the fill to get appropriate look.

[Albacore]

I did a carbon fibre texture in Illy about 1 year ago you might want to have a look at it because I think you could make a brush out of the symbol and do it that way. However there are many carbon fibre wallpapers out there if it is just for a back ground for the web page which would work. Anyway here is the illy tile which I made and saved as PDF, imported in Xara and saved there do what you want with it.

[Dominique]

with Xfader, you can obtain a correct texture

[iamtheblues]

It looks as though the OP was for a Xara result.
I looked at the link in Steve's post and made a
fill of my own in Xara (see attached tutorial).
My result isn't seamless, but if it's big enough
to cover the area you want, that shouldn't
matter, and it then won't need to be a bitmap copy.
Unless someone tells me otherwise.
Saludos,
Bob.

[Big Frank]

I don't really know what carbon fibre looks like, so I'm only going on the OP's original

[Big Frank]

with Xfader, you can obtain a correct texture

Now, that's funny. I tried exactly the same procedure, but with the Redfield Seamless Workshop plug-in (the free one that comes with XXP4 and, maybe, others) and I could not get the result you did!

Nice one, top marks to Xfader, "could do better" to Redfield