Bitmap textures are digital images representing a surface, a material, a pattern or even a picture, generated by an artist or designer using a bitmap editor software such as Adobe Photoshop or Gimp or simply by scanning an image and, if necessary, retouching it on a personal computer. A bitmap graphics editor is a computer program that allows users to paint and edit pictures interactively on the computer screen and save them in one of many popular bitmap or raster formats such as JPEG, PNG, GIF and TIFF. Usually an image viewer is preferred over a bitmap graphics... Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editor (with some text and vector graphics capabilities) developed and published by Adobe Systems. ... Look up gimp in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Textures can be built as a large image, larger than the final destination (such a page, for example) so as to fill the complete area without repeating the image (thus avoiding visible seams). Also bitmap textures can be created to be used as repetitive patterns to fill an infinite area. The borders of these patterns or small textures should be treated to give a seamless appearance when applied to an image, unless, of course, the seam is something to be shown. For the martial arts related meaning of Pattern see Tae Kwon Do and Kata (Karate). ...

When designed for print, textures should be created in high-resolution in order to achieve good results in the final print. The folder of newspaper web offset printing press Printing is an industrial process for production of texts and images, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. ...

On the other side, if these textures are meant to be used in multimedia, 3d animation or web design, they should be created in a maximum resolution that equals the one of the final display (Tv, computer monitor, movie projector, etc.). The rewrite of this article is being devised at Talk:3D computer graphics/Temp. ... Web design is the design of web pages, websites and web applications. ... Display standards comparison The display resolution of a digital television or computer display is the number of pixels (or maximal image resolution) that can be displayed on the screen, usually given as a product of the number of columns (horizontal, X), which is always stated first and the number or... Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. ... Nineteen inch (48 cm) CRT computer monitor A computer display, monitor or screen is a computer peripheral device capable of showing characters and/or still or moving images generated by a computer and processed by a graphics card. ... 35mm Zenith X4000H movie projector A movie projector is an opto-mechanical device for displaying moving pictures by projecting them on a projection screen. ...

If creating a texture with a computer is not an option, then textures can be obtained by purchasing stock images collections, which are expensive but often of a professional quality. A drawing of the everyday computer. ...

This article was taken from The Photoshop Roadmap with written permission.

Further reading

• Procedural textures

A procedural texture is a computer generated image created using an algorithm intended to create a realistic representation of natural elements such as wood, marble, granite, metal, stone, and others. ...

External links

• Photoshop textures and backgrounds tutorials