Archive for March 25th, 2010

GIMP Stuff: Swirl-Tile

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.

GIMP menu for swirly-tile

Step 1

It will have some defaults. These are the default settings:

GIMP menu for swirly-tile

And this is what the default settings will generate:

GIMP swirly-tile

And here are a few of them put together. The seams aren’t too bad.

GIMP swirly-tile put together

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.

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