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Zoltan Erdokovy Posts: 147 Filters: 23	SeamlessTiling by Zoltan Erdokovy http://www.filterforge.com/filters/9908.html
	Posted: August 30, 2011 5:15 am	Details E-Mail
Zoltan Erdokovy Posts: 147 Filters: 23	I'm about to write a tutorial for this filter but until then here are a few random examples: Original: Seam: Tiling: Seam: Tiling: Seam: Tiling: It's no substitution for manual retouching but can give you a head start.
	Posted: August 30, 2011 5:27 am	Details E-Mail
CorvusCroax Posts: 1175 Filters: 17	Wow Zoltan, this is seriously clever! And useful!
	Posted: August 31, 2011 12:53 am	Details E-Mail
CFandM ForgeSmith Posts: 3563 Filters: 204	Nice work Zoltan... Stupid things happen to computers for stupid reasons at stupid times!
	Posted: August 31, 2011 9:20 am	Details E-Mail
Zoltan Erdokovy Posts: 147 Filters: 23	Thanks guys!
	Posted: August 31, 2011 9:30 am	Details E-Mail
lipebianc FFF = Filter Forge Fan Posts: 555 Filters: 12	Very useful, Zoltan! I'm a huge fan of your filters! Congratulations! "From the moment we are born, we start being filtered..."
	Posted: August 31, 2011 9:51 pm	Details E-Mail
Totte Übernerd Posts: 1333 Filters: 97	This one works extremely well for certain kind of tilings where other approaches works less good. Very nice filter. - I never expected the Spanish inquisition
	Posted: September 1, 2011 5:44 am	Details E-Mail
Kraellin Kraellin Posts: 12533 Filters: 97	ok, i dont get it. you seem to be doing the seamless on internal edges (which is usually called 'stitching', not 'seamless'). where are the four images coming from that need this stitching? are you putting those together in photoshop? or am i missing something here (which is probably the case. lol)? or does the filter make four copies of an imported image and then somehow make them seamless? cause if it's the latter, i'm not having any luck/skill in getting this to work. If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up! Craig
	Posted: September 1, 2011 10:14 am	Details E-Mail
Zoltan Erdokovy Posts: 147 Filters: 23	The original image is offset so the edges go to the center where they're more apparent. Take the first image: that is a photo I took. The filter offsets it (also does fade correction) so the seams are obvious, that's the second picture. The next step is laying over the original image to cover up the seams, using a mask created one way or another. (Third pic.) Is that what you wanted to know? I hope I can whip up the tutorial next week because yeah, the controls are kinda many and not very straightforward... EDIT: Clarification.
	Posted: September 1, 2011 10:30 am	Details E-Mail
Kraellin Kraellin Posts: 12533 Filters: 97	hi zoltan, i think i understand your explanation, but in practice when i use a square image, the offsets get pushed to the four corners, so there's actually 5 images, not 4 like you're showing above. try it on the life preserver. i think it shows that way there, too. If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up! Craig
	Posted: September 2, 2011 2:02 pm	Details E-Mail
Zoltan Erdokovy Posts: 147 Filters: 23	Hmmm I'm not sure what's going on... Seam preview (Display = 5): Seamless render (Display = 1): Tiling preview (Display = 4): Any of these look similar what you have? Oh btw I'm still on FF2, haven't yet had the time to install v3.
	Posted: September 2, 2011 2:24 pm	Details E-Mail
Kraellin Kraellin Posts: 12533 Filters: 97	the second one is very similar to what i was getting, four images in the corners and one strong one in the center. If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up! Craig
	Posted: September 3, 2011 7:15 am	Details E-Mail
Zoltan Erdokovy Posts: 147 Filters: 23	Alright then, that's how it's supposed to work. All the "Tiling" images above are like that only it's harder to distinguish the two layers. (Which is kind of the point. Could you post the image you tried?
	Posted: September 3, 2011 9:10 am	Details E-Mail
Kraellin Kraellin Posts: 12533 Filters: 97	i believe it was this one, but maybe the higher resolution one of this, which i cant post due to file size. If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up! Craig
	Posted: September 3, 2011 1:39 pm	Details E-Mail
Zoltan Erdokovy Posts: 147 Filters: 23	Well, that's not an ideal test image because it's already seamlessly tiling and a big part of the picture has no features at all. Try the filter on images which you actually want to use as tiling textures.
	Posted: September 4, 2011 2:46 am	Details E-Mail
Kraellin Kraellin Posts: 12533 Filters: 97	rokily dokily If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up! Craig
	Posted: September 4, 2011 8:32 am	Details E-Mail
Zoltan Erdokovy Posts: 147 Filters: 23	Here is the reference article for the filter controls: The seamless tiling filter Please post your further questions and suggestions.
	Posted: September 7, 2011 3:03 am	Details E-Mail
Lucie Posts: 45 Filters: 5	This filter is going to be so useful! Thank you so much!! Lucie
	Posted: September 8, 2011 8:53 am	Details E-Mail