Weave

Weave simulates four woven patterns: plain, basket, satin and twill. You can convert photos into woven textures and create solid or tileable textures.

## Control Descriptions

### Basic Tab

Pattern

Selects one of the following three weave patterns:

• Plain-

• Basket

• Twill

• Satin

Explore the Settings tab to quickly familiarize yourself with the different weave patterns.

Texture Orientation

Rotates the texture. Use the circular slider or enter a value between 0 and 360 degrees.

Ribbon Width

Controls the breadth of the ribbons in the woven texture. Higher values yield wider ribbons.

Solid Colors

Select this option to choose your ribbon colors.

Vertical Ribbon Color

Selects the vertical ribbon color. You can select a color using the eye dropper, the default color palette, or choose the foreground or background color. You can also choose one of the six most recently sampled colors.

Horizontal Ribbon Color

Selects the horizontal ribbon color.

Colors from Original

Tints the woven texture using color details in your selection.

Above: Colors from Original.

Gap Width

Increases the size of the holes between ribbons. Larger values create bigger holes.

Fill with Solid Color

Selects the color which shows through gaps in the ribbons.

Keep Original Image

Select this option to color the gaps using original image details.

Make Gaps Transparent

Makes the gaps between ribbons transparent, revealing the underlying layers.

Shadow Strength

Specifies the darkness of the shadows falling on ribbons woven beneath other ribbons. Higher values yield darker shadows.

Seamless Tile

Check this box to create a repeatable pattern with no seams.

Random Seed

Controls the random elements of this filter. Click it until you get a result you like.

### Advanced Tab

Thread Detail

Controls the appearance of threadlike streaks in ribbons. Higher values yield more threads.

Thread Smear Length

Controls the length of the threads running along ribbons. Low values make ribbons appear grainy. High values create the appearance of unbroken streaks running the length of each ribbon.

Smear Original Image

Select this box to create threads which smear underlying image details.

Left: The original Image is smeared.

Distortion

Controls the waviness of each ribbon. A zero value produces straight ribbons. Higher values result in increasingly wavy ribbons.

Left to right: Increasing distortion.

Edge Roughness

Controls the jaggedness of the ribbon edges. Higher values yield increasingly jagged edges.