Ok, Im trying to fade from one tile to another in a gradient style way. One tile is Grass, the other one is Dirt. They were both made the same way: base color, noise a bit, blur a bit. If a I have them both side by side, How do I make them seem to blend together?

I haven''t used Gimp, but maybe you can translate this into Gimp''s toolset:

in Photoshop I can think of two ways to do this:
1. If you want a smooth gradient effect, put tiles side by side, and blend them in the middle using the clone tool set to a large brush size, with the grass tile as the source, and set to fade in 10 or so steps. then simply paint away from the grass and into the dirt.

2. this will probably work in Gimp. Use some sort of smudge tool to smudge the grass tile into the dirt tile with long strokes. This will actually look more like a real life grass-dirt transition, since it will make the edges uneven.

if you can get number 1 to work, combine the two techniques and you''ll make some nice transition tiles

hope that helps
>>plectrum

do this. (if you have photoshop(adobe) or photopaint(corel))

1. Open the grass tile
2. open the dirt tile
3. make a new image the size of 1 tiles
4. Fill your new tile with a gradient between black and white, make sure about 25% of the tile is completely black, and about 25% is completely white, with a gradient between the 2.
5. Save that new tile.
6. Go to your dirt tile
7. Select "create mask from file", and select your saved gradient.
8. Hit Copy
9. Select your Grass Tile
10. Hit Paste
11. Save your grass->dirt gradient
12. yer dun!