making backgrounds

[buddylee110]

How do you make your own background image? All I want it a gray background with the word "Bucs" on it. And I want it to be wallpapered, not just centered. Any suggestions?

[upuaut8]

so you want it to repeat bucs over and over again?

I have two programs that I use. Painter 6, and photoshop 6. I have not yet found a feature in Photoshop that will do patterning, but it may be there. Painter will allow you to "define" a pattern, offsetting it so that you can mesh the seams and make something repeat. I've found this to be very useful for backgrounds because I can make an image that is only 20-40 pixels. As such, it keeps the file size down. Since the seams can be edited easily to match up to each other, the repeated pattern looks good.

[ilyaslamasse]

Yes there is one in Photoshop, Upu. You draw something, select it and then choose 'Use as a motif' (I can't remember where it's located but it's there). Then you can fill you screen with whatever you want. I'll check that if you want.

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