Help with seamless leaf background

[AshleyQuick]

Ugh! I cannot seem to get this image to look right as a continuous, or seamless, background. Would someone be willing to help?

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/maxpixel/leaf_bg.jpg

[-LEVI-]

can you show us what you're trying to do? I don't quite undertand what you mean by continuous background -- repeat the image side by side?

[AshleyQuick]

I'd just like the edges blended in some fashion so that it will look nice as a background image. Simply tiling it looks hideous. =/

[-LEVI-]

mmm this is what i could get out of it -- if i think of something better ill let u know

[Black_phoenix]

I would nt go there, the file size will be big and also there is a subtlety to tiles for backgrounds, if the back is loud then people wont look at the site, mb use small leaves and over lay them.


bp

[headspin]

The trick is to make it not so repetitive, what I did was make a copy of the leaf and place it next to it and flip it veritcally. Then I used Photoshop's Inner Glow to both leaves to add a thick black fading border. Then I merged down, and decreased contrast to make it fade to black alot more. Then just compress it highly using jpeg and you only get a 20k background tile which is generally acceptable. It's not the greatest, but used right it could look ok.