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10th Sep 2009 at 10:39 PM
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When you have a rectangular pattern that you want to convert to square, you have to squish it, or crop it, or some combination... for instance, tile it till you get something close to a square and then squish it. What works best depends on the pattern. Squares and circles don't look good squished, for instance... it's usually very obvious if you've done that.
For 450x260, I would probably copy it once to get 450x520, and then squish, if it is not a pattern that would look right cropped.
Be aware that almost all the Pattern Cooler patterns have been uploaded here before, some multiple times... in particular, Gangreless has uploaded dozens of them. Which is not to say you can't use them as a basis for a pattern, but definitely look at the patterns we have and make your upload different in terms of scale, texture, number of channels, or other features.
Or better yet, use another source
There are lots of great tiling pattern sources on the web, and also tutorials on how to make your own. IMO the Pattern Cooler type patterns are pretty limited in their usefulness... a certain style of retro "mod" wallpaper or textile, mostly... and we have a LOT of that sort of thing already, because, let's face it, they're easy to separate.