How to Create Tile Backgrounds

Open Photoshop. From the File menu choose New.

From the Filter menu select Noise --> Add Noise (apply once or twice)

From the Filter menu select Blur

From the Image menu select Adjust --> Hue/Saturation

From the Filter menu select Noise -->Add Noise

Let's Test the tile as a background

With the tiled graphic active, go to the Select menu and choose All
From the Edit menu slect Define Pattern. Create a new file, from the File menu --> New

Then select the new file and from the Edit menu select Fill

You now have a seamless pattern, perfect for a background that looks like this.

Save your tile and you have completed your first custom made background.
You can repeat this steps with different values in the Hue/Saturation selection and with different Noise levels.

Now Continue on to the second page to create different tiles.
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