Tuesday, 1 July 2008

PixPlant, an application for the creation of seamless textures

For those of you that like me have spent ages struggling to create seamless tectures in PhotoShop, here's an interesting new proposition. PixPlant is a smart texturing tool that creates high quality seamless textures from plain photos. Based on ubiquitous photos, PixPlant will add an unlimited choice of realistic textures for your projects: just pick an interesting photo, run PixPlant and get a perfect seamless texture.

Benefits for 3D visualization, architecture and games:
- Quickly create unique seamless textures, horizontally and/or vertically tiled.
- Based on real-life photos, PixPlant generates realistic textures without the complication of procedural texture generation tools.
- Avoid repeated texture surfaces by creating larger textures with less repetition.

For graphics and multimedia design:
- A creative "image alchemy" tool: create high resolution, high quality images with the same characteristics as the photo sources.
- Easily create unique images that can be used as backgrounds, patterns or brushes.
- Expand or complete existing images by adding detail from themselves or from other images.

PixPlant includes the following features:
- Create textures from almost any photo, thanks to advanced straightening and seed pattern controls.
- Highly automated with most textures created in 1-4 clicks. And high performance with usually a few seconds per texture.
- Generate complete images or refine and expand existing ones. Out-select parts of the seed image for fine grain control.
- Carefully designed easy-to-use interface with interactive help and fullscreen tiling preview.
- Available as a standalone application and as a plug-in for Photoshop and compatible applications.

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