How can you tile a single image into tiled multiple layers in a bigger image?
Let's say you have 30×32 image, the new image you would want to have 3×2 tile, thus the new image would be 90×64. However, there should still be 6 layers in this new image.
To give a more specific example, if you are Andy Warhol and have a single image of a Campbell's soup can, you would like to tile it into a bigger image with multiple soup cans. Afterwards, you want to do some adjustments to individual soup cans separately.
Currently, I am just copy pasting original image into new blank image with a grid and dragging each new layer into appropriate slot by hand. Very time consuming. 🙂
This is on Windows XP with Photoshop CS3 Extended, but will appreciate any solutions.
EDIT: What I am looking for is something similar to Create Tiled Clones ability in Inkscape
Best Answer
CS5 Extended has multi-layer fill. If you create a texture with your tile (probably want to run a 50% offset filter, too) you should be good to go. I don't know if you are running this revision, but it might help. If you're running an older version, I believe gIMP also has multi-layer fill for textures, you should be able to perform this step in gIMP and then pop it back into PS without any deprecation.