Creating a seamless background

Hi!
I have migrated over to a mac computer and am at a bit of loss. On my PC I used simple filters to create a lovely seamless background tile... but on the Mac I can't find an equivalent filter/plugin that will do the same thing.
Can someone help me out on the steps that would be require to do this and/or a plugin that would work? I'd like to use these for web backgrounds.
I did try searching the forum but couldn't really find anything.
Thanks!

Barbara thanks for the reply. I was/am using Elements V6 with Simple Filter Quick Tile installed (Love that filter) but with the new computer I am using Elements but the filter is Windows only. I was just trying to see if anyone new of any other filter/plugin available for Elements/Mac that did the same thing.
Thank you also for the list...I did browse through that the other day. I have googled (is that a word?) but I wasn't finding anything, so thought I'd stop in here and see if someone knew something that I wasn't finding while googling! :)

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