I''m wondering how people make tileable images. starcraft for example. i don''t know how, but it has very smooth tiles that you can''t see where they begin and end. i''m stuck with a tile where you can see it begins and ends (same thing happened when you try to tile a circle, you get many circles). I played Photoshop for doing this thing with noise, distort, etc effects, but it''s just the same thing. Anybody knows how to make the tiles tileable???

There are a couple of ways.

The cloud filter is seamless if you apply is over an image that is a power of 2 in both dimensions eg. 16x16 256x256. Lighting effects will be seamless as well, as long as you use directional lights.

Or you can start with an image a few times the size you want and divide it into pieces that are the size of the image you want with a grid. Draw whatever you want in this area, and then copy each of the pieces and paste them into a new layer so that they are one on top of the other. This will then appear seamless.

Just this weekend I ran across a free graphics app designed specifically to make tiles, witha lot of focus on seamless ones.

It''s called sTile

And it''s pretty nifty.