(10-01-2017, 09:51 AM)rich2005 Wrote: There is an interesting extension in Inkscape for creating seamless patterns. A very quick demoI have Inkscape on my computer, but I can never find the motivation to learn it
Looks like this when started: https://i.imgur.com/umKi6O2.jpg
Edit the 'pattern' and see the effect in real time in the 3x3 preview: https://i.imgur.com/aQuK3wp.jpg
Export from Inkscape as a png, and in Gimp as a pattern tile: https://i.imgur.com/nBNS1Ur.jpg
This tiling feature is so powerful and I can't believe that the Gimp community isn't in an excited frenzy about how awesome it is. Really, I did some searches, and there are very few posts about it, other than news sites just mentioning the feature.
This is so powerful, and PS users have been begging Adobe to include this feature for many years now.
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop...t_function
We get it here in Gimp as (in every way) free software and it seems like nobody notices.
I don't mean to hassle Adobe, because I really like PS, and I just wish PS was ahead of everyone in this area, not behind.
I do notice some issues. If I create an image, say 100x100 pixels, then the default tile size is 50%, or 50x50 pixels. That's fine, but it is only a 2x2, and there are seam issues around the edges. To make a truly seamless tile a 3x3 is required, so that there is a tile in the center, not the edges. Also, the 'Mandela' effect does not work so well with animated brushes. The colors are darker in the extra images brush strokes.
--Edit
And every painting tool works well (pencil, brush, eraser, dodge and burn, etc, EXCEPT the ink tool has issues).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ICGks0-InQ
Gimp can basically do this now.