Making Texture Tiles for use as patterns and backgrounds

This tutorial is designed to bring out the creativity in you to design a variety of textures for your patterns, and your background library. Read over the basic instructions, and use the following links to produce these textures.

• Brick
• Burlap
• Canvas
• Cracked Concrete
• CrossHatch
• Mosaic Tiles
• Ripples
• Sandstone
• Sand
• Tiles

Basic Instructions

1. Open a new image

1. Call it Texture
2. 200 wide
3. 200 high
4. 72 pixels per inch
5. RGB
6. White background

2. Save the file as texture.psd.

3. You must first create a new layer to work on.

4. Each tutorial will have recommended colors to use. You can vary from these colors if you want- be creative! The recommended colors are in Hex Values for easy matching to your webpage. To set the hex value of the foreground color, double click the foreground color. Uncheck web safe colors and add the hex value to the box labeled #.

5. Follow the tutorial on the treatment of your canvas.

6. After you make the texture you will need to apply techniques to make your texture a Seamless tiles. Use the Seamless tiles to help you unless there are other specific instructions for doing this. Offset your canvas by clicking Filter=>other=>offset.  Set at 100 horizontal 100 vertical. wrap around.  Then follow the tutorial

7. Save your PSD for additional textures. Save your file in Gif or jpg also for the web.

8. Adjust your colors using hue/saturations. save again.