GIMP Stuff: Swirl-Tile
Mar
25
2010
I like using GIMP for creating and editing images. I was playing around with the auto-generation of images and just thought I’d share what I did, in case anyone else out there is wondering what the Swirl-Tile option does.
My goal was to generate some background for a website. I wanted the background to be interesting but not too distracting, and the seams between tiles shouldn’t be noticeable.
Setup: Find the option to generate swirl-tiles.
Step 1
It will have some defaults. These are the default settings:
And this is what the default settings will generate:
And here are a few of them put together. The seams aren’t too bad.
I’ll cut off the post here for the general blog readers who don’t care about web page background images. But those who are interested can click on the link below to continue reading.