Monday, 22 July 2019

Better Patterns with the Resynthesizer plug-in

Ever noticed how ugly Gimp's native patterns are ?

The resulting texture always looks very artifical and uniform.
This is because the tiles are very small (50-150px). In Gimp 2.8 a pattern can be up to 512x512px.



There is a simple fix that will make them look 200% more awesome with a mouseclick !

Like this:



To make use of this magic, you'll need the Resynthesizer plug-in.
This link should provide you with everything you need:


Once installed, you'll get new entries in different categories. Look here for an overview:


For this tutorial we are only interested in:

Edit → Fill with pattern seamless...


The result looks like this:


Much better !

Another example:

original 'Crack' pattern looks nothing like real stone:


resynthesized version looks way more natural:


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