Then Change the Sinus Layer Mode to 'Grain Merge' and reduce the Opacity to 75%. Then Go Edit>Paste Into and click the Anchor at the bottom of your Layers Dialogue Window to anchor floating Layer. Select the Layer Named 'Mask' and Go Edit>Copy, Select the Layer Named 'Sinus' and Go Layer>Mask>Add Layer Mask, Leave it on the default settings and click Add. Then Go Filter>Blur>Gaussians Blur and with value still set to 5 click O.K. Still with the Layer Named 'Sinus' selected go Layer>Scale Layer and click on the Chain to unlink the two values and change Height to 1024 and click O.K. Use the settings below, the Hex codes for the two colours are 'bfbfbf' and '404040'.Ħ. Select the Layer Named 'Sinus', Go Filter>Render>Pattern>Sinus. Select the Layer Named 'Wood Grain', Go Filters>Render>Clouds>Solid Noise and use the settings below.ĥ. Then Go Filters Blur>Gaussians Blur set to 5 and Click O.K.Ĥ. Two Layers would have also been created in running this filter that we don't need called 'Blur' and 'Background 1' so just delete these layers.

Fill 'Mask' Layer with white, Go Filters>Alpha to Logo>Bovination use the settings as shown below and click O.K. Name layers 'Mask','Wood Grain' and 'Sinus'. Next create 3 new layers by either going Layers>New Layer or by clicking on the 'New Layer' Icon in the Layers Dialogue window. Open a new image in gimp 512px * 512px and fill with white, the image is 512px because I want to make it a tilable pattern, Anything larger than this and gimp will automatically crop it to 512px when used a pattern.Ģ. Couple of people have asked for the steps on how the effect was achieved, so here they are.ġ.

Gimp seamless wood texture