I use to do quite a bit of work with 3D models and texturing was something that I did on just about all my projects. The biggest problem most people have with creating seamless tiles in Photoshop is getting rid of the seam, especially with small file sizes. Today, I will demonstrate a technique that will get rid of the seam every time. Let’s get started!

Step 1

To begin, open up the texture you’d like to create a tile from. Any texture will do, for this example I chose a wooden background.

Step 2

Create a new document 400 x 400 pixels.

Step 3

Crop the background layer down, if necessary and double click the background layer to unlock it and turn it into a regular layer.

Step 4

With the Marquee Tool, grab the entire right-hand side of the canvas.

Step 5

Cmd/Ctrl + X to Cut the selection away. You’ll be left with the left side of the image, on your "Layer 0".

Step 6

Cmd/Ctrl + V to Paste the selection that you just cut out back onto the canvas. It’ll be its own layer now, "Layer 1". You’ll want to drag it right over to where "Layer 0" is with the Move tool, snap it tight with the left-hand side of your canvas.

Step 7

Now select "Layer 0", and Move its contents over to where the right-hand side used to be.