I created this effect using Image Magick, a white tile (optainable here ) and a background tile from here. These are my own copywrite-free creations for your own personal use so feel free. I used marble10.jpg. Choose one and ccp the addy and paste it into your find box. Then ccp the addy to the white tile.

First take the white tile to Image Magick (i am assumng you have that on an f-key...if not, shame on you...lol) and enter it into the front page textarea (if you ccped my addy remove the http:// in the textarea) and click the view button. On the next screen click the resize tab and in the text area type in 150X150 and click the radio button for sample. Now click the resize button.

Two points of explanation here.

First, I choose 150 because I wanted the image to tile evenly across our screen top-the width is approximatly 560 px so I divided that by 4 and got 140 then added ten pixels which I will crop off later-we will be using emboss and that creates a five pixel border around the image that will need to be removed for seamless tiling...so add ten pixels to whatever width you decide to use.

Second, I choose sample since this does not increase the colors in the image to 16 million as zoom does...it saves in the optimizing steps later.

Now back on the view screen, click the annotate tab and on the annotate screen fill in the areas...I used davys dingbats and the letter k, north +0+135, fill-red, stroke- white, size 125(if I remember correctly...lol), density-90 stroke width-1. The sizes will vary with the dingbat you choose...the end result you want is a centered image with a 5 px or so border around it. Hit annotate.

From the view screen click the effects tab and enter 100 in the text area and click the radio button next to effects. The number changes the light source so feel free to play with that...the end results will vary from mine but thats the point in personalization

Now click the composite tab and on that screen you will need the marble tile you have in your find box-ccp it and paste it into the top textarea remembering to remove their http:// the location and gravity are fine so go down below and check the box next to tile down and across and in the drop down list choose bumpmap-I used a blend 1000% although I have my doubts that this function works for us. Others will argue they see a difference, and I'm willingto concede their eyesight might just be better than mine...lol...This will produce a dark image. Modulate also works great...and frankly didn't need to be negated...it created a great looking pressed stamp on the tile...Hit the composite button

Next click the enhance tab and click the radio button next to negate...click the enhance button.If you don't like the coloring of the end result you can play with the gamma, hue, saturation, and lightness but write down what you do...you will need to repeat it when you create your pages background tile so you whole page blends seamlessly together.

Now cllck the annotate tab and if IM and you lbb are behaving today as well as your mercury aligning with your jupiter...lol...all the info you used before to annotate should still be there...you want to change two things: place none in the fill color and increase your density by 2...Hit annotate.

Now hit the transform tab and lets remove the border. I placed in the text area 140X140+5+5 and clicked the radio button next to crop...if you are using a different size than I am, replace the 140's with the proper width and height and click the transform button.

Now click the output tab and on the output screen choose jpg and single file and output (In this case using the optional fields arn't going to make that big a difference but my selections for this were true color, zip, quality 50). You can now beam, transload or otherwise save you creation to you file manager.

This next one was done using a wood tile...I used multiply for the composite type and re-annotated with no fill color but all the rest of the info left the same...I also did not negate.

As always, I'll be looking to see how you use this and expand upon it...have fun and get creative...your only limitations are your own creativity.