Hey Guys! I know there are tutorials out there, (I've read most of them I think) but does anyone know an alternate way to make patterns that doesn't shrink the image down to 256x256? I love the castability of TS3, it's my favorite feature of the game, but the low resolution of the patterns KILLS ME! I have several stone/wood patterns that I would like to make, but I need to retain the color of them and would like to have them look... better. Any suggestions?

The only other thing I could think of would be to make walls/floors instead of patterns for the interior/exterior look I need, and then just use the patterns for furniture pieces and such. But that's doing everything three times over for the same material... *ponders life decisions*

An example of one of the stone pieces I'd like to make, so the post doesn't get lost.