giraffe's skin

this is the nearly finished giraffe. to add the texture i found an image on google of the giraffe fur, but when i went to add it as a material in 3d max you could see the seam, i then had to make the image i had found in to a tile so that there would be no seam. I did this by importing the image into photoshop . by cutting the image in half so i knew that the top half would match up to the bottom half i used the clone tool to blend both half's together. i then repeated this for the sides. then adding a layer mask which was used to add more detail