Advanced Floor Making

Tiling a Floor

I will freely admit that the tiles were a pain and made me dizzy!  I like the idea of a nice tile floor for something like a bathroom, so I gave the image assort22.jpg a try.  Well, as a pattern fill, I noticed that there was this black line and double black and tan squares in places.  So I opened up the image and cropped it carefully so that I got rid of the black edge line and the extra block of squares that was causing the doubling up.  Then I pattern filled again.  Well..........

It was ok, but it was just too big and had no perspective.  So, the hard work really began.  Using the same principle of mirroring, I created a blank new image twice the height and width of the tile jpg.  Then I carefully matched up the squares to keep the checkerboard design.  Then I merged visible layers and cropped the half square along the bottom and the repeating lead of brown on the right.

I tried a pattern fill with this version first.

Here is that piece I had carefully mirrored.

Now remember how I handled the linoleum?  Well, I did something on the same order.  I created a new image 800x600.  I pasted 4 layers of that piece above.  I matched them up carefully, then merged visible layers.  Then I clicked on the Deform Tool and created some persepective.  Then I pasted that on as a new layer in my room.  Finally, a tile floor I can live with!

Want to actually have the template for the final tile at the 800x600 size all perspected?  I have the template available for download, but I want to warn you that it's 1meg.


 
 

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