I have been cutting out some figures out of some photos. I was wonder if there was a way to make the figures I cut out, and paste on a new image, FIT the image, transformed to fit the entire image canvas. I have a background layer, and the layer of my selection on top.

I am trying to make a texture out of a piece of glass I have a photo of. I need the layer and its content to fit and fill the entire image canvas.

How do I achieve this? (I did it once by accident, but I can't remember how I did it)

Going off memory

Edit -> Paste Into

Layers-> Fit layer to canvas or something.

I tried it, its not working. Thats why I came.

That's what she pleaded.

Umm... excuse me?

That's what she said.

You should probably just go find a tutorial.

Either way, trying to use pictures of brick walls you found on the internet as textures looks horrible.

You should consider aquiring a professional level product and actually learning how to use it.

Yeah go get photoshop.

Why not just scale it?

Actually, gimp really is just about at the level of photoshop. Minues a few features, of course, but it has almost the same functionality. Really; don't knock gimp.

I recommend just scaling the layer and entering the size of the canvas for its new dimensions. If you don't want it to get distorted, only enter the smallest dimension of the canvas.

I have made some awesome textures using random pictures of walls from famous cities here and there. Soon to post some of these.



I would but you see, I cut this thing out and its diagonal. I need it to FILL the image. I had an idea of shearing it and then making it fit the layer, but it doesn't seem to be working. I must be doing something wrong.

Well then you didn't make anything. You took pictures off of google image search, probably without permission, cut the wall piece out of them, used a filter to make them seamless, then called it a texture. Same crap you've been pulling.




You don't even know what they're talking about.

Thats called photorealistic textures. I have used a couple sources from mayang to make textures. Mayang is free, and I can even use them commercially inside a product(I sent them an e-mail A LONG time ago).

I have also made textures from pictures I have tooken from the house being built infront of mine, my walls, my floors, etc. It takes skill to make things seamless and realistic. A skill you claim to be pathetic, yet you self don't show any signs of possesing and dominating it.



Umm yes I do, but YOU don't know what I am talking about.

EDIT: Got it working.

Yeah, like Photoshop 5. Without a good interface.

GIMP is great for being free, but pretending that it is on the level of Photoshop is delusional.

It's called lazyness, lack of talent, and full of suck.



Yeah, because it's REALLY hard to use a make seamless filter, and blur hard edges.

Actually modern textures are almost always made from source photographs, albeit ones that aren't stolen. Mayang is an excellent source for stock texture photographs. Making them tile isn't usually very easy, unless you're using something like imageSynth.

Full of suck.

As entertaining as it may be to mock Gold, in this case, Rob, he's right.

Yeah, but I mean seriously.

All he does is use one or two filters to make them seamless.

:/ Can you really call anything he "makes" by a name other than crap?

I have doubts that the quality of his textures are very good, as I would with any amateur. But he isn't stealing anything or being a douche so I don't see what the problem is.

Thats what she said.

(You win, but only because Team Fortress 2 finished loading)

actually, he doubly wins because you failed at loading tf2