Is there a good way to make tileable textures in photoshop?

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April 3, 2018
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I have heard people say about the offset modifier but that only moves the whole image. I am looking for a way to have a preview on all sides of the image if that makes sense.

P P P

P actual image P

P p p

Like this, with P standing for preview. So you can edit the image and it will update in real time on the previews. Does something like that exist? It would make painting textures a lot easier.

3d-texturing

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Semaphoric

Community Expert

Sounds like the 3D > New Tiled Painting From Layer menu item. I find you need to set your doc size to 9x larger, since only one-ninth of the pixels are really "active".

leeg85389400Author

Participant

Right, this seems to have got me somewhere. Buut... I see what you mean about sizing the image by 9x. I have a 1024 x 1024 image so I had to make it 9126 x 9216 which works fine at first but once I make it into a tiled painting and draw something photoshop crashes.

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dannyg34842029

Inspiring

I do not know of a way in photoshop to have a truly "live" preview but this may help you.

One thing you can do is turn your layer that is being tiled into a smart object.

Then, drag that smart object into a new file, and duplicate the smart object layer and arrange the duplicates however you want the image to tile.

Then, if you double click one of those objects in the Layers window, it will open the smart object. Make any changes you want to that object, Save, and go back to the window with your tiled pattern. All the objects will have updated with any changes you made.