Nice tutorial...if I can follow it, anyone can! am I supposed to have a transparent border around it? I assume that is from the drop shadow. Is this seamless or...how can I make it seamless.

Esper - Thanks
Molly - I type the text I'm after, then autocrop and finally use the align tool to centre.
Fluffy - Nice design, liking the cubes.
2-Ton - The border comes from the fact the shadow layer is bigger than the image, hence why you unchecked the resize option. As to making it tileable, you could either crop the metal part into a tileable size then create a new tileable background or play around with the settings in the mosiac filter.

This is definitely something i can use. Will get on it tomorrow. Thank you for the tut

Decided to have a look at the g'mic polka dot filter, Below are the settings I tried and my results.

he4rty: i like that gimp chat text! and the effect looks good with the polka dot pattern too .
fluffybunny: cool cubes!
akros: "erase every other row and run" actually that is my favourite distortion filter, i've used it a lot.

this was a very simple and fun tut to follow and i can see so many fun ways to tweak it! i'm sure graechan's script will give me even more ideas too, they usually do.

for this i used the pack sprites filter in g'mic and after making the grid i ran tileable wind on it. i had to offset the pattern layer and work on the metallic mesh by hand to make it seamless and i am not entirely happy with the metallic look - next time i'll probably use another gradient and chrome curve - but all in all i like the resulting pattern a lot.

Lovely

AnMal - Thats really nice and I'm impressed its not paisley.

sallyanne: thank you sister
he4rty: hehe, thank you - i've made some paisley ones as well but this was the first one that looked good enough to post.

Sallyanne - All very nice images, I like the hearts and the Octogan pattern, the bottom pattern looks almost like one of them pin picture thingies.

sallyanne: wow, nice stuff! you'll never be short of good looking backgrounds now!

Thanks. I found your tutorial quite easy (if not frustrating until I was helped). Now I might not feel so overwhelmed by others.

Thank u for the tutorial.

I love my result. Of course please provide feedback.

Nice results, I'm liking the flattened look of the hexagon mesh.

I tried this tutorial several times but did not end up with a 'see through' grill!!

So I went very carefully through it once again and when I got to the Pattern Layer "colour to alpha" instruction, I noticed that the black background did not disappear nor the grill become see through - I repeated the instruction but again nothing changed.. Yes black was the selected colour.

So I then used the 'select by colour tool' and deleted the selection, i.e. all the black inserts and hey presto I got a see throught grill. Then I continued and ended up with the same image as everybody else.

But I do not understand why the 'colour to alpha' did not work - any ideas?

Are you positive that you turned off the visibility of the bump map layer? Even better, once it's used delete it from the image, because it's no longer needed, i.e., the Pattern Bump Layer.

Oh dear Oh dear Oh dear ...to quote others in this forum, it must have been a seniors moment!

I have just tried the tutorial again and suddenly realised what the problem was - I really thought I had chosen black for the colour to alpha step, but it was not really black (wrong HTML code!).

Wallace - thanks again for trying to help this old guy; by the way I am impressed that you say you do not have to change your clock! Its a bit like Queensland her in OZ, they do not observe 'summer time', so all the guys in the New South Wales border towns pop over to Queensland pubs to get an extra hour drinking!!