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| Download a preset. You will need my Impressionist Dabs brush preset, unzip and extract it to your Presets directory. |
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| Start a new image. File ->New. Make the image much larger than you want the finished tile, there will be quite a bit of cropping during the course of creating it. Here, I've started with a 500x500 image. Background color doesn't matter, you'll cover the canvas in the next step. |
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Add some variation to the color. Click on the  Brush tool. Click on the preset drop down and choose the amc_ImpressionistDabs2 brush. Open the Brush Variance Palette. If this is not visible, turn it on, View ->Palettes ->Brush Variance. Change the Color Blend variant from 100 to 0. Change the Hue variant from 5 to 1. Change the Rotation variant to None. On the Brush tool ribbon, change the size of the brush to about 125. Change the Rotation to 90. Set your foreground color swatch to a basket-y color, here I've used #9D3E19. Cover the image completely using this brush. |
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Make the texture. Adjust ->Blur ->Gaussian Blur. Set the radius to 7. Adjust ->Add/Remove Noise ->Add Noise. Set it to Gaussian, 40% and Monochrome. Adjust ->Blur ->Motion Blur. Set it to 90 degrees and 50%. Run the Motion Blur again with the same settings. Adjust ->Sharpness ->Sharpen More. Run this filter two more times. Click on the  Crop tool, drag out a crop to get rid of the junk that the motion blur puts on the left side of the image. Double click inside the crop rectangle to apply. |
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Make the weave. Effects ->Texture Effects ->Weave. Set the Gap Size to 10. Set the Width to 23. Set the Opacity to 100. The two color swatches need to be darker versions of your foreground color. Here I've used #501C0E for the Weave Color and #48190E for the Gap Color. Click OK to apply. |
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Correct the vertical strips. You'll notice that when the weave filter applies, it does not account for the direction of the strips in the weave. We'll have to fix this "by hand". Layers ->Duplicate. Image ->Rotate ->Free Rotate. Tick off Right and 90 degrees, All Layers unchecked. Unless your image was perfectly square, you've got "extra" transparent canvas on the top layer. Use the crop tool to crop this off. Lower the Opacity of the top layer to about 50% by dragging the Opacity slider in the layer control palette. Unless you got very lucky, this layer does not "line up" with the bottom layer. Zoom in on the image so that you can see what you're doing. Click on the  Mover tool. Drag on the top layer until you can see that it lines up with the bottom layer, as you move it at some point the dark "gap" squares will suddenly look sharp. You also need to ensure that you've got the over and under of the strips right. If you can't see it well enough to decide if it's lined up, use the eraser to erase a portion of the top layer to check it. If the weave doesn't look right, you probably need to move the top layer up one more "row" and/or over one more "column". Undo the erasing before proceeding. After this is done, return the Opacity of the top layer back to 100%, again, you'll probably have extra canvas to crop off. |
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Preparing the pattern. You'll make the pattern seamless by cropping again. Drag out a crop rectangle. Make the top of the crop sit directly on top of the first full row of horizontal strips. Make the left crop sit directly to the left edge of the first full column of vertical strips. The right crop needs to go on the left edge of a column that matches the left side of the cropped image. The bottom crop needs to go on the top edge of a row that matches the top of the cropped image. This is harder to describe than it is to do. If you find that you can't get it right, make a crop, right click on the top layer in the layer control palette, choose Merge Down then Effects ->Image Effects ->Seamless Tiling. Checkmark the Show Tiling Preview Box. When this comes up checkmark the Show Original box. Do not apply this filter. If your crop is correct just hit cancel. If it's not, hit cancel then Undo the merge and try again. |
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Finish correcting the strips. This part is rather tedious, you will have to remove the incorrect strips (which are now the horizontal strips). Zoom in on the image so that you can see what you're doing. Click on the  Eraser tool (not the Background Eraser). Start with the second piece of horizontal strip (the first piece may not be a "full" piece). Set the Eraser to defaults. Change the shape to square, Hardness to 100 and Rotation to 90. Move the cursor over your image and adjust the Size and Thickness until you get an outline that is the same shape as one of the pieces of strip. If brush outlines are not turned on, you can find this option in File ->Preferences ->General Program Preferences. Click once on an incorrect bit to erase it and allow the correct bit underneath to show through. Continue to do this for all of the horizontal bits. |
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Make the pattern seamless. Right click on the top layer in the layer control palette and choose Merge Down. Effects ->Image Effects ->Offset. Click the radio buttons for Center and Wrap. Hit OK. Because we made the tile with variations in color for realism, we have a seam in the center of the image both horizontally and vertically. We'll use the  Clone tool to fix this. In the Clone tool ribbon, set the Shape to square and Hardness to 100. Set the Rotation to either 0 or 90 depending upon which direction you're working on. Set the Size and Thickness as you did above for the Eraser tool. Using the Clone tool, right click on a piece of strip away from the center of the image. Left click on top of a piece of "damaged" strip. Continue doing this to "cover up" the remaining damaged areas. Choose different areas of source to right click on for each strip so that the pattern remains natural looking. Optional: Adjust ->Sharpness ->Unsharp Mask. Use the default settings. |
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