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Tutorials: 15 Steps How to create Photoshop pattern.
Lot of you might be curious on how to define your own cool Photoshop pattern and use it to your own ease. Well don’t be bother because this is very easy and after knowing it you can create thousands of pattern of yours and share it to the community. Now let’s start.
1. Open your Photoshop (I’m using CS5.5 and it works perfectly on CS4 too).
2. Now, open the image you want to create a preset of your pattern. Use the keyboard shortcut “CTRL + O”.
3. Now select Rectangular Marquee tool. Use keyboard shortcut “CTRL + M”.
4. Define the part you will going to use as your pattern. If you want you can select it all
by just using the key shortcut “CTRL + A”.
5. After that, go to Image tab/option.
6. Now find for Define Pattern on the drop down. It must be between Define Brush Preset and Define Custom Shape (depends on PS version).
7. A new small rectangular window will pop out. Now you can name your pattern by just entering your desired one on the Name textbox. Now click Ok button.
8. Now you can close the image and you can now try your pattern.
9. Open up a new workspace. Define what ever name, width and height you want. Use the keyboard shortcut “CTRL + N”.
10. Try to type some words by using the Horizontal Type Tool. Define your own font type. Use the keyboard shortcut “CTRL + T”.
11. Now on the Layer panel, double click your Text layer to open up Layer Style. Or you can right click on it and choose Blending Options.
12. After that, you should be able to see different Styles. Now, browse for the Pattern Overlay, just right between Gradient Overlay and the last style, Stroke (depends on PS version).
13. If the Pattern Overlay is successfully check you can now able to define your own pattern. You can change the default pattern set to your text by just clicking on the inverted triangle on the Pattern box at the middle. You can see different pattern, now you need to choose your pattern you have created.
14. Try playing on it. Better add a Bevel and Emboss and Drop Shadow. Now click on Ok button if it is great for you. Now you can save your cool image to whatever image file type you want.
15. To navigate to your Pattern file, go to this address C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5.1\Presets\Patterns.
I'll start form the bottom and work my way up explaining the uses of all the Photoshop tools that I use.
Image Ready - button lets you edit the image in Adobe Image-ready.
Screen Modes - Standard lets you see all the images you're editing in separate windows, the next button maximizes all the windows of the images to the workspace, and the full screen mode maximizes the image to the whole screed over the task-bar.
Foreground and Background Colors - lets you see and change the colors you're editing an image with.
Hand Tool - if you know what it does, tell me.
Zoom Tool - Zoom in a particular part of the image.
Eyedropper - Using Alt you can copy a certain color form an image and draw with that color on the image or a separate image.
Objects Tools - There are Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Line, Polygon, and Custom Shape Tools, each of which can be draw on an image.
Text Tools - Let's you put text on an image.
Smudge Tool - Smears the image in the direction you choose.
Blur Tool - Blurs an image in areas you select.
Paint Bucket Tool - Fills a chosen color on to an image with the selected color.
Erase Tool - Erases an image to its background, either white, a selected color, or transparent.
Clone Stamp Tool - Using Alt you can select a part of an image and recopy that part to a different image or to a different area of the same image.
Brush Tool - Draws lines of a selected brush in a direction you choose.
Pencil Tool - Draws lines of a selected brush in a direction you choose, without anti-aliasing.
Crop Tool - Crops the image to the area selected.
Move Tool - Moves the objects or layers in the image, or the image itself.
Wand Tool - Selects a color and its shades so that only that part of an image can be modified or added effects to.
Lasso Tool - Lets you select a part of an image to be modified by itself.
Marquee Tools - Let's you select a defined object of an image or creat a defined object.
Photoshop Tools lets you create your own workspace that fits you the best.
You can move or get rid of any options and settings windows in your workspace so that it can be used to your best interest.
Adobe Photoshop is an image editing, or image creating application, with a lot of advanced and useful tools.
Photoshop Definitions and Terms:
- Image - picture, a visual representation of an object or scene or person or abstraction produced on a surface.
- Pixel - the information stored for a single grid point in the image. The complete image is a rectangular array of pixels. A pixel consists of a single color.
Difference between Canvas Size and Image Size
The image is an object that was drawn and when changing the size of it, it either shrinks or expands, canvas is the space provided to draw the image on, decreasing the size of the canvas doesn't shrink the image but cuts it off, when increasing the canvas size there is more space provided and you can draw out side of the image.
The image is an object that was drawn and when changing the size of it, it either shrinks or expands, canvas is the space provided to draw the image on, decreasing the size of the canvas doesn't shrink the image but cuts it off, when increasing the canvas size there is more space provided and you can draw out side of the image.
- Transparent - if an image is not transparent, the image is automatically a rectangular size, if the image is transparent, for instance a circle will always be a circle, the canvas is transparent so the pixels around the circle are non existent.
- Anti-aliasing - Smoothing or blending the transition of pixels in an image. Anti-aliasing the edges on a graphic image makes the edges appear smooth, not jagged.
- Layer - layers pile on top of each other, think of it as earth's layers of soil, crust and so on. You can change th order of layers, depending if you want an image under an image or the other way around.
- Filter - under Filter you will find numerous effects you can apply to a image or selected region of an image.
- Bitmap - A representation, consisting of rows and columns of dots, of a graphics image in computer memory. The value of each dot (whether it is filled in or not) is stored in one or more bits of data.
- Gray scale - An image representation in which each pixel is represented by a single sample value representing overall luminance (on a scale from black to white).
- RGB Color - The red, green, and blue (RGB) color system can represent a large portion of the color spectrum by mixing these three primary colors.
- Lab Color - a color model developed by the Center Internationale d´Eclair-age (CIE). These standards are internationally accepted standards for all colorimetric measurements. The Lab model, like other CIE color models, defines color values mathematically, in a device independent manner. Lab color is consistent color regardless of the device producing the color.
Fake Vector
Vectors are made using specific software's such as Illustrator (most used professionally), CorelDRAW (pretty easy to learn) or Ink scape (free software). The Photoshop works with raster images (bitmaps, that ones formed by pixels). When we finish our work we’ll save that as a bitmap (.jpg, .tif, .pgn, .gif). So that, we say that it’s a fake vector.
Take a look at this image i just made it in 10 seconds a sample fake Vector
How to Use Pen Tool
In this Photoshop tutorial we will explore how to use the pen tool.
First, we will look at the pen tool’s basic controls. We will examine creating paths, curvature modification and anchor point adjustments.
Next, on the following page, we will use our new pen tool skills to cut out an image. This skill is so essential to know when using Adobe Photoshop, and it really illustrates the power behind the pen tool.
Finally we will see how a path created with the pen tool can be used to create custom shapes. Custom shapes are vectors so they will never pix-elate or lose quality. Again this is such a handy skill, you’ll end up using it all the time!
BASIC CONTROLS OF THE PEN TOOL
- Photoshop’s pen tool you have three options: Create a new work path, Create a new shape layer, and Fill Pixels.
- We will use the Create a new work path option as this the most commonly used. You can find these options in the top left hand corner of the Photoshop window. See the image below.
- Just like selection tools, the pen tool has several different options for the resulting path. The most commonly used is “add to path area”. See image below.
- Take your pen tool and click on a blank canvas similar to what I have done below. Each time you click you create an anchor point.
- Hold down Shift, move the mouse and click again. Holding down shift while making an anchor point creates it in a straight line with the last anchor point.
- We can add and delete anchor points on the path we have created. Right click on the pen tool on the toolbar to reveal further tools. Use the Add and Delete Anchor Point Tool to do just that!
- I used the Delete Anchor Point Tool to remove the forth anchor point.
- Now, let’s look at the Convert Point Tool for curvature modification and moving anchor points.
- With the convert point tool click and drag on the second anchor point. Without letting go, move the mouse around and see how it affects the curve. The line that is created is called the Tangent Line. The tangent line controls the curvature of the curve.
- Holding down Ctrl click on the anchor point and move the mouse, see how this allows you to move the anchor point.
- Click on one end of the tangent line and drag.
- This breaks the tangent line in half and creates sharp path changes.
- Move the entire path by selecting the Path Component Selection Tool from the toolbar and drag the path to a new location.
- Delete your path by right clicking on the path and select Delete Path.
Finally I will briefly touch on another style of creating a path. With your pen tool create two anchor points however on the second click don’t let go, drag the click to create the tangent line. The tangent line will affect the next anchor point that you create. Try it out. I don’t use this technique because I find it slower but many do use the technique that feels right for you. Thanks for reading the Basics Photoshop Pen Tool.
