sickest tiles to be created ^^

Bad. So i decided to remake it, removing the emboss on the way.
http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/9...shdefined2.png
Hows it now? i followed the picture dusty showed, theres now no clear line where the border was before.

Thing is, your's has an outline. There are no single leaves sticking out or anything like that. Which makes it look boring and undefined. And I don't think the color works well either.

Now It really does look like a sofa.

Whipped this up as an example of how I would go about it.
I started with black as my background color and added layers on top of that.
Each lighter color starts further up.

The top half of the hedge is just the bottom half flipped upwards and lightened a bit, mostly because I'm lazy.
Notice the 'w' and 'm' shapes circled in red. Ideally things that stand out like that would need to be touched up, because they're going to stand out even more when you tile the image.

Also notice how the back edge is rigged instead of being a straight line? Ideally the sides would have the same sort of shape but I didn't bother to make the sides. As for the bottom edge you could add some tufts of color there that match your server's grass tiles so that it blends in better.

http://i34.tinypic.com/11v193s.png

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/1633/edgebush.png
K update!

looks better. still looks too "plasticy" if you get my drift.

Still too much filtering for me. The image is maxed out in colors xD

edit: Quick color reduction/tweaking (6 colors, compared to full 256 used by OP)
Attachment 51478

Contrast is a little high, it's whatever. I think the problem is you're using filters to create detail causing it to have that 'plastic' effect mention in above post. Not even sure if this is intended for Graal/supposed to be pixel art (dunno if you mentioned so) but filters are a bad choice if you're trying to pixel.

Thanks for the spot. :)
Reduced the amount of colours without overdoing the contrast. (I dont want too much contrast, since i might be doing this for a modern server.)

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/6071/lesscolours.png

All of them have around 9 colours now.

I like it, and the Autumn color looks lovely. <3

looks better, but unless you're brave enough to use layers (which have close to zero support), these won't work as tiles.

Sure they will.

They look like brackets.

ever since this thread starter i kept thinking of this, i have to get it off my mind.
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...jpg?1281521326