{"id":30320,"date":"2019-05-14T19:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T02:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/?p=30320"},"modified":"2019-05-13T20:55:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T03:55:21","slug":"tutorial-tuesday-photoshop-elements-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/2019\/05\/tutorial-tuesday-photoshop-elements-97\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial Tuesday (Photoshop Elements)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Repeating Patterns, Part Three<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In Part One, we built a repeating pattern essentially on a grid. In Part Two, we went a little further and created a repeating, staggered pattern. And now, in Part Three we’re taking all that we’ve learned to create a repeating pattern with multiple options. Ready?<\/p>\n

Open up a new canvas 2 inches square with a resolution of 300 pixels per inch.<\/p>\n

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Then duplicate your blank layer. The reason for this will explain itself.<\/p>\n

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Now take a look through your brushes or stamps and choose the one you’ll use first. I used a dragonfly from a free set of butterfly brushes (sorry, can’t find a ling to them). Resize it so it fits into a fraction of your square.<\/p>\n

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You can see that I’ve duplicated<\/strong> the dragonfly and positioned them in opposing corners.<\/p>\n

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Then I changed my foreground colour and chose a butterfly stamp, adding it to one of the vacant corners.<\/p>\n

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And duplicated<\/strong> THAT layer then I Merged<\/strong> all the layers.<\/p>\n

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I think you might remember this part. Edit>Define Pattern<\/strong> will let you save your creation as a pattern for use with the Pattern Fill<\/strong> tool.<\/p>\n

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You don’t HAVE to give it a name, but it might make it easier to find later.<\/p>\n

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Now you need a solid paper for your background. It can be textured, or not.<\/p>\n

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Then select the Paint Bucket<\/strong> tool, but instead of the Color Fill<\/strong>, go with Pattern Fill<\/strong>. Then go find your new creation.<\/p>\n

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One click on the paper and BINGO!<\/p>\n

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But wait! There’s more!!<\/p>\n

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This time I added some glitter to my brush layer.<\/p>\n

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And then some hearts…<\/p>\n

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… and some MORE glitter.<\/p>\n

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I missed a screenshot where I added in the silhouette of a girl jumping for joy, but you can see the result here.<\/p>\n

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Look at how amazing it looks with the glitter, which is still there.<\/p>\n

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Let’s try that one in a staggered pattern. I opened a new 2 inch tall, 4 inch wide canvas and applied the pattern to it. Then I deleted the second repeat so I’d have somewhere to put the offset. Filter>Other>Offset<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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I used the same settings I had for the first staggered pattern we did back in Part Two. Then I Edit>Defined Pattern<\/strong> with a different name.<\/p>\n

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Yes, the same steps as before.<\/p>\n

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And there’s my new staggered-pattern paper! I could learn to love this technique!!<\/p>\n

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Have you tried any of the parts of this tutorial? I’d love to see yours!<\/p>\n

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Repeating Patterns, Part Three In Part One, we built a repeating pattern essentially on a grid. In Part Two, we went a little further and created a repeating, staggered pattern. And now, in Part Three we’re taking all that we’ve learned to create a repeating pattern with multiple options. Ready? Open up a new canvas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[229,102,284,92,62],"tags":[373],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 00:41:46","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\/30320"}],"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=30320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30344,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30320\/revisions\/30344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}