A wood texture with a cartoon coloring effect.

In the glory days of Windows v3.1, seamlessly tiling textures were definitely the way forward in desktop wallpapers. They consumed very little memory, were visually appealing, and caused negligible system slowdown. Of course, much has changed since then, with high-resolution wallpapers now the standard for nearly everyone. That does not mean, of course, that seamless textures have been consigned to the junk pile. They are now more useful than ever, valuable for webpage backgrounds, 3D texture mapping, and many other professional applications. Luckily for designers, they are also easy to make, providing you have the required patience and know the techniques necessary to make them

A cheetah pattern generated by several filters to create a realistic cheetah texture.

Create a brushed metal texture in less than five steps.

Randomly generated 3D pipes with a neon glow. 1 Create a new document and add a Clouds filter (Filter> Render> Clouds).

Create a realistic rug with a highly detailed pattern.

Create a brushed steel texture in a few simple steps.

This tutorial shows you how to make a brushed stainless steel texture that actually looks like real brushed stainless steel. There are many tutorials for ‘brushed metal’, but none of them come close to what real brushed steel actually looks like.

Wood and rock textures are undoubtedly very popular on the internet today, and you don't have to go very far to find vast libraries full of outstanding natural beauty. Man's creations, however, enjoy far less popularity and some artists have found it rather difficult to find appropriate resources for city scenes. One particular texture that is hard to find is that of asphalt, and recreating an asphalt texture (complete with road markings) is the subject of this remarkably simple tutorial.

An abstract formed by lines pointing towards the distance.