Topic awaiting preservation: Images for backgrounds

Hi..
I'm sure everyone noticed the current trend in css based layout :P
Also, many of them seem to have that wallpaper (i mean the real paper/textile wyou stick on room walls) type of background, usually floral/vegetal, that repeats flawlessly, something like a hotel hallway (i just think of paris hotels when i see it, somber, 19th century )
Something like : http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/135/135.css&page=0
or http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.deepsix.ca/csszengarden/sample.css
I'd like to know hwo to create something similar, or at least some samples i can study... I'm not looking for 'trendy designs' i just like them a lot, i plan to use them as backgrounds for desktop, when i get borred of current ones... PS has a few shapes resambling the second example's background...
I just don't know what to look on google for... Backgrounds like that seem to turn up everywhere and no tutorials are available or even a name for them

Thanks


Curiously yours, crip

What will probably help you the most is one of mahjqa's mini-tuts: snowflakes for dummies

That will give you an idea of one way to create interesting patterns. The same technique should give you some floral type patterns that should repeat.

Another way is to start creating shapes with the pen tool and bend, twist, and transform them until you get something you like.

Doc Ozone's tiled background tutorial is excellent and squidfingers has the pattern repository you'd be looking for

Wow... Thanks for the links guys... That pattern repository is great...And mahjqa's tut is ,as always,a suprinsingly simple solution


Curiously yours, crip

Kaliber 10000 too.

Plenty fun.