Yeah, contrast can help a lot. You just have to be careful with textures such as the one you have there which has a multicolored pattern created by the clouds filter. The contrast will really bring out subtle variations in color like that, sometimes too much, which can kill the tileability of a texture and /or make it look too splotchy.
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I've found a really handy (albeit Gimp-only) plugin which can help combat stuff like that - <a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pfh/resynthesizer/" target="_blank">Homogenizer</a>. It's not perfect, but it's a lot quicker than messing around with blurred, colour-inverted layers and so on.
Or just use the Highpass filter in Photoshop to even out the contrasting areas, and then apply a Sharpen filter right after. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
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I've found a really handy (albeit Gimp-only) plugin which can help combat stuff like that - <a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pfh/resynthesizer/" target="_blank">Homogenizer</a>. It's not perfect, but it's a lot quicker than messing around with blurred, colour-inverted layers and so on.