The height map is a depth representation on a greyscale. Start by using the Black and White function in the Adjustments menu, then add a new layer for touch ups. Then flatten and save your Seamless texture. this will transparent the edges and help it blend nicer. Finally use the magic wand selection tool to select all the transparent areas, the INVERT your selection, and use the Effects-Selection-Feather Selection plugin. You can erase more or less, the trick is to find areas where the two layers will blend nicely. On the top layer we'll use the eraser tool around all the edges except in the middle where the cross is.but it leaves an ugly cross in the middle, this is what the top layer is for. What this does is swap the upper right quarter and the lower left quarter, and the upper left quarter to the lower right quarter. On the bottom layer I used the Seamless Texture Creator plugin from the Effects-Distortions menu, using the Seamless Texture Helper setting.Then I duplicated the Layer so I have two to work with. Your crop doesn't have to be exactly square, but try and get it close, so there's not too much stretching. I brought the image into Paint.NET and cropped it down to an area I like toward the upper right hand corner and resized to 512x512. The image I used is a free wallpaper found here.

I can't remember which plugin was in which pack so you'll need to get several ( You should get them all anyway, they're free and very useful). for this tutorial I'm using Paint.NET along with several of the plugins.This is by 'justanother1' and is being added by Chocolatepie33. This is best viewed on the forums, seeing how the wiki doesn't do images too well.Īnyways, on to the tutorial.

Paint.net normal map plugin