Getting started

How to begin working on textures

You now have this program in front of you and don't know what to do with it. How to create those nice textures which are seen all over the internet. TTM has a very complex and, on the first look, a confusing interface. That's because it is very powerful and has a really great amount of functions which have to be available in a quick way. All those buttons and you don't know which to press first. Don't worry. Test all the buttons and look what happens, you can't damage anything.
You will get familiar to the program and then find it easy to handle. Power takes time to be controlled.

First steps

Here are some steps which you can do first.

| -Choose a color by clicking on the CHOOSE COLOR button. -Press the PLASMA button to get a base for your texture.

| -Choose the circle function at the draw operations located in the TreeView on the right side and press the + button. -Choose the blending DROP and add it, too.

| -Run a horizontal wave at the distortion tools by clicking on the UP button after you have chosen it. -Also run a vertical wave the same way.

| -Click on the MAKE TEXTURE SEAMLESS button which is blinking after a operation.

Look, the raw texture was copied to the finished texture and TTM made it seamless.
There's a scroll bar on the multi-tile preview window (click on Previews). Move it to scale the finished texture. Now press the Expand button and maximize the window to see how it would look as a desktop background.
If you like the texture you can save it by pressing the save scaled texture button.

Congratulation, you created your first texture.

There are many function in TTM, which you can select in the TreeView. You will also get a picture of what the Operation does. Just press the i key next to this picture and you will get further information.