Seamless Tiling-Lesson2

Hello, lesson 2 already ;o)
As the title says, the theme is seamless tiling.
I started again by making a tag, I was going to use the same texture for my text background but found it was way too heavy. I picked these five colours from my image.

The patterned background tile was made from the darker blue and the reddish brown. I floodfilled a 200x200 square with the blue and sprayed the other colour on with the airbrush tool, after that I applied the filter dsb flux bubbles. I made the tile seamless with a program called 20/20, which you can download here

The tile I used as the text background was made with the paler blue. I again floodfilled a 200x200 square with the colour and then applied the filter Xero Fritillary, had to play around with the settings a bit until I deemed it suitable. Again the tile was made seamless with 20/20.

All I had left to do was a striptile using a gradient. As colours I used the purple and the darkest colour, which I also used as my text colour. I switched to Gradient, with the settings #1 Foreground-Background, linear, angle 0, repeat 1.

Finally I made some buttons, I used my original swatch, doubled the height, copied, flipped and mirrored the image. Then I merged them, and lowered the opacity to 84. Added the text in the same font as I used in my tag, but this time I used the colours of the text and the background just behind it.