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Heart
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 Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:28 am Post subject: Make Your Own Patterns |
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Patterns are useful especially for spanning designs, this tutorial will enable you to make your own patterns in next to no time 
1. Open Photoshop. You need to open an image from which you will be a creating pattern.
2. Filter > Pattern Maker
3. This will open the Pattern Maker dialogue box with the Rectangular Marqee Tool selected by default.
4. Drag Rectangular Marqee Tool on the portion of the image from which you want to create the pattern. (marked with white circle)
5. Click Generate.
6. This will create the pattern which has to be saved.
7. At the right bottom of the dialogue box you will find "Tile History".
8. Select "Saves Preset Pattern" (marked with green circle)
9. Click Cancel to close the window.
10. We will use the pattern now.
File > New
Go for any size of the file with RGB mode on.
11. Edit > Fill > Use (Pattern)
Open newly created pattern from the custom pattern flyout menu. Click OK.
This will fill canvas with the pattern. |
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GEORGIEBOY26
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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good stuff Heart... 
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bobflemming
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| Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:11 am Post subject: |
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That's rearly gonna come in usefull, thanks Heart
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Blackstar
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| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 5:32 am Post subject: |
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| Somehow I've never used this option...Thanks! |
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Boneapart
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| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 5:45 am Post subject: |
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Nice little tip... I'll give it a try...
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1Bullet
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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| great tip to bad it took me so long to try it. |
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