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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