![]() PPS: There are some mild spoilers for Carrion Crown because that's the map I used to do the tutorial. A friend of mine asked for some tips on printing them out so I put together a little tutorial, hope you enjoy. It's particularly effective for complex maps which are difficult to draw, but often it's just nicer to have a printed map. Surface you are working upon in any way.) You can use soft tack to adhere yourĭigital graffiti.I often take maps from PDFs and turn them into printed maps. In a room, a hallway, a forgotten place somewhere. In a particular place which dialogs with your design in some way. Pattern out of it and then print it out using at least 4 x 4 x 4, 8.5” tiling prints (16 total) and install it Start by creating an image (it can be either realistic or abstract). The edge of the sheet by automating the necessary overlap needed when They also compensate for the fact that most printers don't print to Take the Photoshop document into one of those toĭo the job. Should appear in the PrinterĪnd even Illustrator have the ability to "tile" the printed outputĮxactly in the way you need. * Check to see if your printer has a Poster or Tileįunction. Also use Bicubic (best for smooth gradients) interpolation.įor more info on interpolation please see: When ready to print: go to cmyk (Image>Mode>cmyk)Īt 300 dpi (Image>Image size>300ppi) (make sure Scale Styles, Constrain Proportions and Resample Printing There are a number of ways to do this: see which of the following work Layer options, and select flatten) and save it as your file of choice.Ī Turn a Texture into a Seamlessly Tiled Background If you are finished at this point, flatten your image ( choose Or clear (whichever you prefer for your pattern)Įdit > Fill ( Select "Fill with Pattern " )īack and work on the tile image until I've reduced as much of the obvious Size>8.5 x 11”) make sure your background is white With everything selected (itĭoesn't matter what layer is active, only what's visible), go to Editĭocument or you can simply increase your canvass size That you will see in many patterns across the web.įirst go to Select > Select All. This helps eliminate those annoying horizontal and vertical lines Image, I create a very rough cross shape, trying not to make the cross shape The rubberstamp tool to paint back in areas. Out any seams that are visible, by erasing to the image below. Other > Offset, choosing offset values 50% of my texture'sĭimensions (in this case 256 X 256). Preset of Sandstone, playing with the settings there. Then chose Filter > Texture > Texturizer and chose the > Render > Clouds, which renders a fractal image using theįoreground and background colors on top of whatever color may already be Style and a color that you are comfortable with.Įdit > Fill, choosing the foreground color.ĭefault of black and white (select "D" on the keyboard), and chose Filter Maybe a subdivision of 2, to show where the center of the tile is. Taking ourĢ56 by 256 pixel example, we would set up a gridline every 256 pixels, and The edges of your tile are when repeated in on our checking file. This will repeat the tile six times across and six timesĭown, and will give you a good idea of what the resulting pattern will look Pixels might have a "checking" file of 1536īy 1536 pixels. Work in RGB color spaceĪnother image, using all of the same settings except for size. ![]() Measurement, and that your image resolution is 72 dpi. Make sure that you're using pixels as a unit of New images: one that will tile, and one that we will use to check the work. Select Edit> Fill and select Pattern from the Contents menu and You can fill an area with this pattern if you Otherwise you can create a pattern to be used in PS by selectingĮdit> Define Pattern. You should repeat this same procedure several times until your image is tilingĪt this point you can save your image as a high quality jpeg or gif image. Other> Offset command and fix the visible edges with the stamp and Markings as a whole or as constituting a particular group: Not much graffiti appears around here these days. Sidewalk, wall of a building or public restroom, or the like: These graffiti are evidence of the neighborhood's decline. As initials, slogans, or drawings, written, spray-painted, or sketched on a
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