Plaid Lite

Plaid Lite is a Photoshop plugin for creating seamless plaids and tiling tartan patterns. Spin the plaid to any angle, zoom in and out, change the pattern and modify the colors. Create unique web page backgrounds and attractive framed digital photos.

Screenshot of the Plaid Lite user interface
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The easiest way to make seamless plaid patterns.

With Plaid Lite, you can create plaids in seconds. Just load an image, click Randomize, click Make Seamless and you're done. Instant plaid, no 20 step tutorials to follow. And if it's not quite what you want, you can tweak the settings until it's perfect. Plaid Lite gives you control without needing to know about difficult warp & weft settings. Easy as can be.

An example plaid created with Plaid Lite

Create scrapbook backgrounds and plaid stationary.

Plaid Lite is especially useful for digital scrapbooking. Use it to create seamless plaid backgrounds for your scrapbook pages, plaid borders, or online scrapbooking web pages. Many of our customers use Plaid Lite to create plaid stationary, including email stationary for programs like Incredimail.

Another example plaid

Be creative. Be abstract.

It's designed to make plaids, but it can also generate unusual geometric patterns. A slight tweak of the settings can give you unique seamless patterns - and with millions of possible combinations, you'll soon find yourself hooked on creating "just one more" seamless tile to share with your friends.

Yet another example plaid

Create and sell your own royalty free plaids.

Every seamless plaid that you create with Plaid Lite is your own creation. You can do with them whatever you want - share them with friends, put free plaids for download on your website, you can even sell them. We won't charge you any royalties, any money you make is yours to keep. Plaid Lite is so affordable, it won't take long to earn back the cost of the plugin.

... and so much more.

Our customers use Plaid Lite to create desktop wallpapers, seamless website backgrounds, digital scrapbook backgrounds, seamless textures, color-coordinated plaid photo frames, plaid email stationary, backgrounds for signature tags, and so much more. Take a look at the tutorial list on the right to see how others use it. Spark your creativity, get inspired. Play with Plaid Lite today.

Features

  • Synthesizes plaid patterns from existing digital images, so it's easy to generate color co-ordinated patterns
  • Rotation control allows you to spin plaids to any angle you like
  • Zoom control to get up close to the plaid pattern, or zoom out to increase the plaid density
  • 4 different quality settings, from Draft Quality for slower computers, up to Insane Quality for super-crisp images
  • Easy to use installer program gets you started quickly and easily
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System Requirements:

  • Windows 2000/XP/Vista
  • or Windows 95/98/ME
  • 32MB RAM
  • 3MB hard disk space
  • Adobe Photoshop or other Photoshop compatible plugin program (see below for details)

Compatible Programs

  • Adobe Photoshop v3.04+
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements
  • Computerinsel PhotoLine 32
  • Corel Paint Shop Pro X or newer
  • Corel Photopaint v8+
  • IrfanView
  • Jasc Paint Shop Pro v4.12+
  • Jasc Paint Shop Pro Studio
  • Megalux Ultimate FX
  • Ulead PhotoImpact v4+
  • ... and many others.

Quotes About Plaid Lite

"I love the program and it saves me a lot of time from having to do it on my own.... I will keep checking on your site to see what you come up with next!!" - Sheila

"I use this thing every single day....A LOT. I'm a fanatic for matching colors in graphics and your filter has given me so much more variety as far as having different places to start from!" - Roberta

"There is a plug-in available called Plaid Lite that will work with DIP, the reviews are great on it..." - NStreicher

Plaid Lite Tutorials