Hi Guys,

I have created a tileable image/texture in krita but I want to actually tile that image in another krita file for the background.

But I cannot seem to find a way to do this. I tried turning the tileable image into a pattern (krita complains the image is too big for a pattern so shrinks it) and then use the fill tool/layer option but due to the resizing of the pattern, I cannot get it to match the layout of my image which I originally designed it for.

The tileable texture I am making is wallpaper or wall patterns - the tileable texture contains the skirting boards and also the conving at the top and bottom of the image.

I will keep having a play around with the different options but if anyone has any suggetions, that would be awesome.

No, there's no automatic way of doing this that I know of...

Thanks for the reply.

I might have to do a combination of illustrator and krita to do it.
Or break the image up into smaller part and make those individual parts a pattern, then you the fill tool with a premade selection.

I will find out some way to do it.

So the solution I came up with is the following:

Break your coving, wallpaper, skirting board designs/patterns into separate krita files. This will help make sure your design stays the right dimension/size when you turn it into a pattern without shrinkage happening.

The next step, to get it to tile correctly, is to create a new krita file with the dimensions you want for the coving, wallpaper, skirting board.

For example, you might have your coving design as 15mm x 15mm but the coving for the artwork you are making is 15mm x 200mm.
Using the fill tool with the use pattern option will allow you to create your tiled image in the format you want.

Then do the same for the rest of your patterns. Note: that your wallpaper pattern might be 20mm x 20mm, but the wall you want to apply it to is 200mm x 400mm. That is fine, the tiling will take care of it. I also noticed that designs that look average or not so good by themselves, turn into amazing pieces of art when tiled. I think it has to do with the symmetry of it. Just pleasing to the eyes, as your no longer looking at the individual details but the pattern that is created.

The last stage is to then assemble everything back into the main krita file you are using. File Layer is good in this regard as it allows you to update the image files separate to the main file you are working on. So it can quickly allow you to create variations of the artwork you are making. The hardest part is the initial setup and the folder structure you want to use.

Hope this helps anyone trying to do something similar in the future.

Note: If you are having problems with alignment and when things to be perfect. I find that Illustrator does a good job as it allows you to change the type of grid snapping you can do. Currently Krita seems to only support pixel alignment. Illustrator does have something similar to the File Layer in Krita, called links. If you change or update the artwork that the link is attached to, it can then be updated in the main illustrator file you are using.