Symmetry Painting

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Just found this, and it is awesome.

It makes it very easy to make seamless patterns or tiles.  I just create an image 3x3 times the tile size, using a grid as a guide.

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Then cut out the middle tile:

It is in Gimp 2.9.4 and up.  Krita has something similar, but now so does Gimp!

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The tab/window is called symmetry painting.  Just set up the tile size and paint away.  The tiles are instantly seamless.  When done, cut out a tile the size of the tile. I wonder what would happen if this is combined with other things, like bump mapping?

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This is something I would love to see in other programs.  Wow a great reason why Gimp stays on my computer.  I made pattern in less than 30 seconds, and it is totally seamless and I never did an offset.  Here's the brush I used https://chrisdesign.deviantart.com/art/G...-196683471

Pixel artists making tiles should love this feature.  Quite honestly, it is my favorite feature in Krita, and I can't think of another program that has it, although I'm often quite ignorant about things.

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The painting still work when I paint outside of the image!  Gimp still places it in the right place!

Anyway, I'm going wild with this thing.  It is never been this easy

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I'm getting a little carried away, but people should check out this feature

[rich2005]

There is an interesting extension in Inkscape for creating seamless patterns. A very quick demo

Looks like this when started: https://i.imgur.com/umKi6O2.jpg

Edit the 'pattern' and see the effect in real time in the 3x3 preview: https://i.imgur.com/aQuK3wp.jpg

Export from Inkscape as a png, and in Gimp as a pattern tile: https://i.imgur.com/nBNS1Ur.jpg

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(10-01-2017, 09:51 AM)rich2005 Wrote: There is an interesting extension in Inkscape for creating seamless patterns. A very quick demo

Looks like this when started: https://i.imgur.com/umKi6O2.jpg

Edit the 'pattern' and see the effect in real time in the 3x3  preview: https://i.imgur.com/aQuK3wp.jpg

Export from Inkscape as a png, and in Gimp as a pattern tile: https://i.imgur.com/nBNS1Ur.jpg

I have Inkscape on my computer, but I can never find the motivation to learn it

This tiling feature is so powerful and I can't believe that the Gimp community isn't in an excited frenzy about how awesome it is.  Really, I did some searches, and there are very few posts about it, other than news sites just mentioning the feature.

This is so powerful, and PS users have been begging Adobe to include this feature for many years now.
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop...t_function
We get it here in Gimp as (in every way) free software and it seems like nobody notices.

I don't mean to hassle Adobe, because I really like PS, and I just wish PS was ahead of everyone in this area, not behind.

I do notice some issues.  If I create an image, say 100x100 pixels, then the default tile size is 50%, or 50x50 pixels.  That's fine, but it is only a 2x2, and there are seam issues around the edges.  To make a truly seamless tile a 3x3 is required, so that there is a tile in the center, not the edges.  Also, the 'Mandela' effect does not work so well with animated brushes.  The colors are darker in the extra images brush strokes.

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And every painting tool works well (pencil, brush, eraser, dodge and burn, etc, EXCEPT the ink tool has issues).

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ICGks0-InQ
Gimp can basically do this now.

[Kevin]

Personally I've no use for symmetry painting, but I'm curious about what you mean by "Gimp community" and where you think it lives

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No use for symmetry painting?! How is that even possible?

"I'm curious about what you mean by "Gimp community" and where you think it lives"
Here and there, but what I mean is all the different message boards mainly. My buddy at the NSA has a difficult time telling me where everyone is, perhaps if we could get everyone on the latest Windows I could tell you . . .