Making a seamless paper texture pattern using Gimp

It is nice to apply a paper texture to an image created using digital painting software like Photoshop, MyPaint, Gimp, or Corel Painter. The texture makes the image look more realistic somehow. In Gimp, there are built in filters that can automatically adjust scan images of paper textures so that the textures appear seamless when placed as pattern tiles. The following steps show how to make a seamless paper texture pattern using Gimp.

  1. Start Gimp. Load in a scanned paper texture image file e.g. watercolor.jpg.


  2. Select Colors | Desaturate.

    The Desaturate dialog box appears.

  3. Choose Lightness. Click OK.

    The image is desaturated.


    Note: there are alternative ways to convert the image to a grayscale RGB.
  4. Select Filters | Map | Make Seamless.

    The image is adjusted so that the images edges match when tiled.

  5. Select File | Export.

    The Export Image dialog box appears.

  6. In the name field, type in the pattern file name (with a pat extension) e.g. mypaper.pat.
  7. Browse to the location of the Gimp pattern folder e.g. C:\Program Files\Gimp 2\share\gimp\2.0\patterns\.
  8. Click Export.

    The Export Image as Pattern dialog box appears.

  9. In the Description field, type in meaningful text e.g. My watercolor paper Pattern.
  10. Click Export.

    The seamless paper texture pattern file is created.

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