I am currently working on a brick texture, just an ordinary brick texture. But while working on it i realised that i use quite a few small tricks that beginners are not aware of so i deceided to keep track of my steps with screenshot and some explanation.
This tutorial will have the following steps:

-Straitening the texture and getting rid of the lens distortion.
-Making the texture tilable
-Creating a bumpmap

http://www.imageafter.com/temp/tristan/tutorials/tutorial2/

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That max trick is nice Got to try it next time I got distortion problems.
Thanks for this tutorial !

Actually, yes that would be easier! I used http://www.acmebrick.com/md/index.htm for this nowadays I did not yet know bricks 'n tiles Looks awesome. As soon as architectural visualization jobs start coming in again I will certainly try it!