Where Do You Get Fabric Textures Whether Scanned or Digitally Created?
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For making your own textures for purchased content - for your own renders, not merchant resources. (other than at DAZ, Rendo, and RDNA)
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Thanks for the link, but they seem to only have 3 seamless patterned fabiric textures.
I have to admit I buy a lot of mine as Merchant resources, even to make my freebies, or scan in fabric myself.
Do you find it difficult to make scanned fabric into a seamless tile?
Filter Forge, it's awsome.
Yes, it is tedious and needs a fabric with a very small pattern and pattern repeat, tbh.
Does Filter Forge have fabric samples? Or is it an application to create your own seamless tiles?
It's an application, stand alone or within photoshop. It can create all sorts of wonderful things.
Another option is Genetica.
Gentetica looks good for seamless tiles, but it's not made for Mac.
Fabric is coverd by copyright laws. Fabric printed with a pattern is instantly recognizable. I wouldn't take a chance using an image of patterned fabric in a render for commercial purposes.
I second that... With Filter Forge you can create the particular fabric weave as a base layer, then create whatever textile pattern you need and combine them in Gimp or Photoshop. You can combine various nodes and filter elements to combine the pattern and weave at once within FF, but I preference to do it in an image editor unless it's a premade filter as that saves me time. There are a couple of pretty good weaves, patterns and combinations available at Filter Forge's library. Right now on Filter Forge's site they are still having an 80% off sale, but I don't know how long that will continue.
While I do like Genetica, it's also more expensive and does not have vast and continuously growing library Filter Forge does... Although it does have a library as far as I can tell, it's not been updated in a while and most of the (good) content available on their forums by Genetica users is more or less for "studying" or non commercial use... Reading the forums there over the years I've seen people get pretty pissy over their filters... But that's understandable because Genetica's business model is not set up the same as Filter Forge, which encourages community development and sharing of filters and gives rewards for very popular filters (but that's like super duper popular filters, and through usage stats, not downloads)... With Filter Forge you can use the filters however you wish... Though I will say many of the creators look down on people who just render out a tile and sell it without trying to alter or personalize it or credit the source.... But they are limited to not liking that because once you submit a filter it's out of the creator's control and up for community use... And then there is also the lack of a Mac version.
It's personal use and not being sold. Completely legal.
I also have Filter Forge and can vouch for it. It can also be done in Substance Designer, but if all you need it for is for fabric swatches, then Filter Forge would do.
There used to be a nifty little app called Seamless Studio; however, a certain version of Adobe AIR broke the app and it hasn't been fixed since. There is Seamless Lite, which is web based, and can be found here: http://www.colourlovers.com/seamless
Character/logo prints...yes. The rest, sort of...too many factors to go into.
Go to any fabric shop and look over the selection, you will find plenty that are not copyrighted in any way. Get samples/swatches of those and scan them.
What I like about Filter Forge is nearly all the textures can be generated in perfect tiling form, which saves a huge amount of effort compared to trying to scan stuff.
Here there is also more You must give Appropriate credit to the author:
https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=Fabric&license=4,5,9,10
morguefile.com has free photos of fabric. Not all are seamless tiles, but they can be made to work. I've used their stock for denim, flowers, stone, concrete, etc. Fancy textile patterns do make it harder to apply.
Are the images that are generated in perfectly tilin form also perfectly seamless? Can FilterForge make them seamless?
yes they make them seamless.
My most fav plugin is this one: Kaleidoscope and it's free too :-)
Get camera, take picture - even of a jumbled mess of nothing in particular, crop it "square", run it through the filter a few times, can make some amazing "cloth" textures.
Thanks for that link - it looks promising.