{"id":29979,"date":"2019-04-30T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/?p=29979"},"modified":"2019-04-29T18:47:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T01:47:31","slug":"tutorial-tuesday-photoshop-elements-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/2019\/04\/tutorial-tuesday-photoshop-elements-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial Tuesday (Photoshop Elements)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Repeating Patterns – Part Deux<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As promised, here’s the second installment of creating your own patterned papers. (I hope our lovely designers aren’t mad we’re doing an end-run around them… but sometimes the overall design cries out for a paper they didn’t give us.) Today I’ll show you how to create a staggered pattern repeat the quick and easy way. Refresh your memory if you need to… I’ll still be here when you’re done!<\/p>\n

If you remember, my first effort was really odd because I hadn’t made the original stamp image small enough to give it a good repeat. So here’s the Resized<\/strong> stamp. I went with (almost) 2 inches square for a six-time repeat across the page, but you can go with whatever makes you happy. After I Resized<\/strong> my stamp I just pushed the bottom of the canvas up to make it a perfect 2 inch square to calm my OCD.<\/p>\n

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Then I actually shrank the stamp down a bunch more so the staggered repeat would look better. And I filled the background with a solid colour by adding a new layer BELOW the stamp layer then flooding it with white using my Paint Bucket<\/strong> tool for it’s more usual purpose. And I Merged<\/strong> the layers into one.<\/p>\n

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This step is something we’ve only rarely done, and that’s to Resize<\/strong> the Canvas<\/strong>. What does that mean? (Yes, I heard that!) The stamp is an IMAGE<\/strong>. The workspace behind it is the CANVAS<\/strong>. The keyboard shortcuts are almost identical. CTRL\/CMD>ALT>I<\/strong> for the Image<\/strong> and CTRL\/CMD>ALT>C<\/strong> for the Canvas<\/strong>. Easy enough to remember, right?<\/p>\n

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I doubled the WIDTH<\/strong> but left the HEIGHT<\/strong> unchanged. I also moved the Anchor point<\/strong> over to left-centre by clicking on it in the diagram. This is the most important part of this step. So many new things we’re trying here!<\/p>\n

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And it’s time for another new thing! We’ve looked at the Blur filter<\/strong>, and the High Pass filter<\/strong> and we’ve played with some of the others but we’ve never talked about the Offset filter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Isn’t it awesome that all you have to do is choose it from the drop-down menu and Elements runs with it? Now that there are some terrific staggered stamps here, I’m going to Define<\/strong> the Pattern<\/strong> in the same way we did it last week. Edit>Define Pattern<\/strong>… super simple.<\/p>\n

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I gave it a name that is different from my other defined patterns so Elements wouldn’t mix them up.<\/p>\n

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Then I went back into the Paint Bucket<\/strong> and chose the Fill Pattern<\/strong> mode. A single click on my gray paper and voil\u00e0! A staggered pattern all over my paper. (Of course, the gray paper is completely hidden by the white fill layer from way back in step 2…)<\/p>\n

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But that doesn’t matter because if I choose the correct Blend Mode<\/strong>, it’ll show back up with just one click. I went with Linear Burn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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And there’s the gray paper! Now to save my paper for future use. I used the Save As<\/strong> (CTRL\/CMD>SHIFT>S<\/strong>) method, which lets me decide what kind of file I want it to be. Papers are always .jpg<\/strong> files, so that’s what I’ll do.<\/p>\n

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I have a folder on my laptop for “my” papers and that’s where I’m putting this one.<\/p>\n

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And we’re done!! I’m going to experiment before next week to make papers with more than one pattern. Wish me luck!<\/p>\n

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Repeating Patterns – Part Deux As promised, here’s the second installment of creating your own patterned papers. (I hope our lovely designers aren’t mad we’re doing an end-run around them… but sometimes the overall design cries out for a paper they didn’t give us.) Today I’ll show you how to create a staggered pattern repeat […]<\/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":"2026-04-26 03:32:22","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\/29979"}],"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=29979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30028,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29979\/revisions\/30028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}