On Friday 01 October 2004 10:42, Nick Wilson wrote:

Hi all,

I've found a tutorial on making a tile (suitable for a web page background) but it talks about clicking the 'tileable' checkbox. The effect im using does not have this:

I want to make a seemless tile of about 100px wide buy 80px deep.

This is how i create the effect i want to tile

PythonFu -> Effects -> add fog

How can i make the left and right hand edges so that the image will tile nicely (horizontall) accross the screen?

I'd suggest that you would offset the layer by x/2 and y/2 (layer->transforms->offset), and retouch the "seans" that now will be in the middle of your image by hand using the clonetool, until it becomes "seamless".

Much thanks...

Not at all!
JS
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On Friday 01 October 2004 11:42, Nick Wilson wrote:

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Right, thanks. I've worked out how to offset (only need the x offset) but the clone tool has a cirle with a line through it? - looks like it wont work for some reason?

Sorry, just worked it out. Too hard for me i think, the 'fog' pattern is way to complex, i'll try find a way to do it with somthing that has 'make tileable'....

Eureka! - i think..
Is there a way that if i use the script-fu -> fog thing I can then make part of the layer fade away? - it's for a 80px deep 'header' so if i can make the right hand edge fade into the background it'd work?

Sorry to be a pain ;-) i just really like this effect and would love to use it..

Threw is a thread on how to fade a layer into transparency going on right now - see the messages with subject "Fade one edge of photo to trans.".
However, there are no secrets for those who have understood the way layer masks work:
Just add an opaque (white) mask to your layer, and paint on it with the blender tool, with "linear" and "no repeats" as options, make a gradient from white to black on the edge you want transparency.

It is also worth to note that the pyhon-fu "add fog" actually uses the filters->render->clouds->plasma plug-in in a mask. The "plasma" sibling on the same menu, "solid noise", does have a "tileable" option.

Regards,

JS
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Hi

A related tile effect can be applied through Filter/Map/Make Seamless.

Best

Asif

--- Nick Wilson wrote:

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Right, thanks. I've worked out how to offset

(only need the x offset)

but the clone tool has a cirle with a line

through it? - looks like it

wont work for some reason?

Sorry, just worked it out. Too hard for me i

think, the 'fog' pattern is

way to complex, i'll try find a way to do it with

somthing that has

'make tileable'....

Eureka! - i think..
Is there a way that if i use the script-fu -> fog thing I can then make
part of the layer fade away? - it's for a 80px deep 'header' so if i can
make the right hand edge fade into the background it'd work?

Sorry to be a pain ;-) i just really like this effect and would love to
use it..

Nick W wrote:

Right, thanks. I've worked out how to offset (only need the x offset) but the clone tool has a cirle with a line through it? - looks like it wont work for some reason?

If the clone tool cursor looks like that, it means you haven't set the source to clone from: it can't copy if you haven't told it what to copy. See http://docs.gimp.org/en/ch03s03s08.html for more information.

Best,
-- Bill

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