PhotoSEAM

PhotoSEAM is a feature-rich and intuitive application designed to offer a simple method for creating seamless and impressive textures, tiles or drawings using a wide variety of painting and editing tools. It also lets you apply corrections and enhancements to digital pictures with the help of various filters and effects.

The program provides a user-friendly and intuitive layout with the drawing tools on the left part of the window, the editor pad, and colors, textures and brushes panels on the right. You don't need any editing knowledge to design your own tiled textures and images.

To get started, you can either open an existing photo from the computer or make a new project from scratch, selecting the desired dimension and background color. Depending on the canvas length, it is divided into multiple tile windows. The supported file formats are PNG, JPG, BMP, PCX, TGA and TIF.

For the loaded images, there are two important steps you have to do. The first one is to move the item within the panel to pick the desired area to generate the texture, or you can zoom out and frame the whole picture. The second step is to adjust the general and aspect ratio correction.

You can use different types of paint brushes, such as normal, difference, overlay, multiply, dark, light, which based on the two selected colors or textures creates interesting effects, as well as their size and transparency. The same elements are applied for the pencil and rubber stamp as well.

You can add a touch of personality to your work, by painting with numerous artistic and 3D brushes (aligator, hair dry, rope, star, 3D pipe), stamp with flowers, leaves, arrows or trees, and fill in the background with tones. Other features worth mentioning are correction filters (e.g. contrast, brightness, gamma, color levels, hue, saturation), special effects, like shift, old photo, glass, warp, neon, as well as photo rotation and auto stroke.

The bottom line is that PhotoSEAM is a reliable and accessible utility that can be used by both novices and professionals and offers an efficient method of designing textures and tiles using a broad range of effects, filters and brushes.