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September 30, 2011
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P: Mirror Paint/Symmetric/Seamless Tile Paint Function

  • September 30, 2011
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Photoshop could use a interactive Mirror Paint and Seamless edge/border painting function. Painter has had this feature for about 10 years now.

165 replies

Inspiring
December 3, 2011
Basically this would shave off about 30-40% of the time spent on creating tillable textures. Especially when there's allot of details that needs to be tossed around. You can't work non-destuctebly at the moment as you always need to merge layers down to tile them correctly. It's also a huge hustle managing all the layers every time you want stuff to tile together.

Even though there's not that many voting for this, i can't say ONE texturer/artist that would explode out of relief and happiness for a function like this. Both game-art and 3D community are HUGE. We are a very big consumer of photoshop. Don't foreget us please! :)

This is, from a 3d artist's point of view, THE biggest feature that's currently not in photoshop.

As a P.S, i'm coming from the gameart forum Polycount and when Iloyd posted his mocup image the board literary exploded when interest and joy (they, we, thought that he'd actually scripted it). http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpo...

Please, PLEASE give us 3D dudes some love! Photoshop is such a powerful and important tool for us, make it THE tool for us!
Inspiring
December 3, 2011
Hey, yeah. I want tiling images, or document sizes that can be manipulated easier. It would be a great idea. Please do.
Inspiring
December 3, 2011
YES, this is EXACTLY how a tile wrapping tool should behave. Two thumbs up!
Participating Frequently
December 3, 2011
Thanks for coming James!
Yeah it does suck but the sign up wasn't as bad as I was expecting.
Inspiring
December 3, 2011
There are lots of us that want this feature, just that signing up just to tick a little +1 button with no guarantee of a result sounds a lot more effort than it's worth.

Also, I didn't know this place existed until Lloyd pushed us here.
Participating Frequently
December 3, 2011
Well of course we want this.
Inspiring
December 3, 2011
Then guide more of them this way. (just make sure to search for existing requests before adding duplicates)
Inspiring
December 3, 2011
This really does need to be a feature in Photoshop. A tiling tool would benefit anyone in the games industry. And that is a huge user base. I work at a small company and we still have ~25 copies of Photoshop. I have to tiles textures, complex ones, every day. This tool would allow me to make stuff at a much faster pace.

Lloyd has the right idea on this one!

Chris Cox: This is a very big issue for the 3D industry. I know a lot of people that would use the tool. Honestly I think the reason no one is supporting it is no one knows about the feature request section at all.
Participating Frequently
December 2, 2011
Yeah that feature is still too limiting and not what were looking for.

Thanks for the reply. hopefully we can get more votes up in here.
Inspiring
December 2, 2011
Having the ideas merged makes it easier to count the people supporting it, keep the conversations in one area, and combine interesting variations in the requests. We've heard this request from a variety of sources, but there never seems to be a large number of people supporting it - so product management always has higher priorities.

BTW - you do have a tiling paint feature in Photoshop Extended using the 3D functionality.