{"id":29899,"date":"2019-04-23T19:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T02:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/?p=29899"},"modified":"2019-04-23T18:06:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T01:06:39","slug":"tutorial-tuesday-photoshop-elements-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/2019\/04\/tutorial-tuesday-photoshop-elements-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial Tuesday (Photoshop Elements)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Repeating Patterns – Basic<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Last week’s tutorial attracted some comments, as they usually do, and thanks to Karyn Concannon<\/strong> I have some topics to work with for the next couple of weeks. She’d like to know how to use repeating patterns to create her own paper – let’s take a look at that one now.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure this has been covered in a previous tutorial but when I went to look for it so I could link it, I couldn’t find it. So to recap… I think. To create repeating patterns you can use brushes, stamps, elements, shapes – whatever your heart desires. For my example I’m using a tribal-looking stamp from Connie Prince<\/strong><\/a>‘s Roar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The first step is to Define<\/strong> the stamp as a Pattern<\/strong>. Click on Edit>Define Pattern<\/strong>. This is the easy part.<\/p>\n

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The menu opens up this box, where I named my pattern Connie’s Roar Stamp.<\/p>\n

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Next I chose a background paper (from Aprilisa<\/strong><\/a>‘s All American<\/strong>): neutral, gray with a git of texture.<\/p>\n

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Next, I chose the Paint Bucket<\/strong> tool (W<\/strong><\/span>ork S<\/strong><\/span>mart N<\/strong><\/span>ot H<\/strong><\/span>ard shortcut is the K key<\/strong>); as you can see, I’ve added a blank layer on top of the paper layer. This is an important step, so don’t leave it out.<\/p>\n

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The Paint Bucket<\/strong> menu has two options. The one on the left is the colour fill<\/strong> setting, the one on the right is the pattern fill<\/strong> one.<\/p>\n

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When I click on the little triangle inside the frame for the pattern fill setting, the default patterns open up, and so does the one I just defined from the stamp!<\/p>\n

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I clicked on the stamp pattern and WHOA! That wasn’t what I was ready for…<\/p>\n

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It turns out I should have resized the original stamp png BEFORE I turned it into a pattern. That can be accomplished one of two ways: Image>Resize>Resize Image<\/strong> or CTRL\/CMD>ALT>I<\/strong>. Then decide how small to make it. Keep in mind your canvas size (3600×3600 pixels or 12×12 inches in my example). Once it’d been Resized<\/strong>, I went back and Defined Pattern<\/strong> with it, giving it a different name.<\/p>\n

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Then I used Pattern Fill<\/strong> and got what I was expecting the first time.<\/p>\n

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There are so many ways this can be jazzed up – Blend Modes<\/strong> have a lot of options, texture filters<\/strong> can make your paper look flocked or sponged, the colour can be changed in several ways. Give them all a whirl! For my example below, I changed the Blend Mode<\/strong> to Dissolve<\/strong> and made it look like I’d stencilled it on.<\/p>\n

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One way to change the colour is to add a Fill Layer<\/strong> using the Layer<\/strong> menu. Layer>New Fill Layer>Solid Color<\/strong><\/p>\n

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By ticking that box, you’re telling PSE to clip the new colour to the layer below it.<\/p>\n

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When the Color Picker<\/strong> opens up, you get to choose what colour you want to go with. I like this method because it’s much more reliable than using the Paint Bucket<\/strong> to fill the design – that usually ends up being a lot of work for a not-so-great result.<\/p>\n

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If you want to make further adjustments to the pattern layer, Merge<\/strong> the pattern layer and colour fill layer together. (CTRL\/CMD>E<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

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The merged layers will lose the Blend Mode<\/strong> so I hit it again with Dissolve<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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That’s how to make a simple repeating pattern. All the control is in your hands. Next week I’ll show you how to do a staggered repeating pattern. It takes a few more steps and some experimentation…<\/p>\n

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Repeating Patterns – Basic Last week’s tutorial attracted some comments, as they usually do, and thanks to Karyn Concannon I have some topics to work with for the next couple of weeks. She’d like to know how to use repeating patterns to create her own paper – let’s take a look at that one now. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[229,284,92,62],"tags":[373],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 03:36:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"private","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29918,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29899\/revisions\/29918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}