Repeat Pattern Workshop

Notes

Open Photoshop

File - New - Type in required measurements of the tile (5cm x 5cm)

Cmd - R - Turns the rulers on/off

Click and drag each guideline to the each of the frame:

Check guides are in place by checking the snap option is ticked - View - Snap

Image - Canvas size - Add 200 percent to height and width - More room to work with

View - Lock guides

Open an image with a transparent background - Drag on to frame

Click image - Hold alt and drag - Makes a duplicate of that layer

Arrange a design you are happy with - Within the middle square guidelines

Select the tile

Edit - Define pattern

Edit - Fill - Pattern

Voila!

Change colours

Can change the pattern - Go back to the tile and amend

Overlapping Patterns

New document - click the little circle icon at the bottom of the layers - Pattern

Change the scale of the pattern

Go back to the original tile - Select all layers

Right click - Group all layers - Make a folder for them to go in

Making a pattern which over laps:

Overlap the motif - then select the top section of the overlap

Hold shift - Drag down the to the other side edge

Take in to a new document - Good for wrapping paper

Corners:

Good for creating evenly spaced pattern - Simple

Put the motif in the corner first, then separate each one by holding shift - Dragging to the opposite corner

Repeat until all four corners are filled

Take in to new document - Ta Da!