Sunday, September 11, 2011

Photoshop- Intro to patterns



Patterns can be a fundamental part of any design. The best part is that they're not very hard to create.

To best teach how to create a pattern I'm going to create possibly the easiest one, the diagonal stripe.


1. Create a new document measuring 4*4 and make its background transparent.
2. now zoom in all the way and grab your pencil tool and set it at 1px black
3. draw a diagonal line like the one below.



4. Now grab the rectangular marquee tool and select the entire document.
5. Click edit then define pattern, and your done.

6 comments:

  1. Awesome little patterns to use right here.

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  2. yeah, very nice post :) good blog :)

    follow : )

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  3. This is really helpful to create halftone dots, like the ones they use to shade manga drawings.

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  4. Nice, A while ago I was looking for this, but then I gave up, is good to know how to do patterns from now on

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  5. this is really helpful! I always had photoshop, but I never knew how to use it hahaha

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