Cool Pattern
1.) Basic TV lines:
Create a new image 2px high and 1px
wide with transparent background.
Zoom it to 1600% (the highest zoom point in
PhotoShop) and with the Rectangular Selection
Tool select the upper pixel. Fill it with black,
then deselect (Ctrl+D).
Then from the menu select Edit -> Define
Pattern and name this texture TV line.
You are done and you can now always do the cool TV
like effect on your image !
2.) Square texture (grid):
Create a new image 5px by 5px with
Transparent background. Zoom to 1600% and
select the upper 5 horizontal pixels with the
Rectangular Selection Tool.
Fill them with black.
Than do the same with the first 5 vertical
pixels.
You should get it like this:
Than deselect (Ctrl+D) and Edit
-> Define Pattern.
Name it Grid. Easy isn't it ?
3.) Cool 10px lines:
This one is very cool and I personally use it a lot.
Now create a new image 1px wide and 10
pixels long with transparent background.
Zoom it to 1600% and select the upper pixel.
Fill it with black, deselect (Ctrl+D)
and Edit -> Define Pattern.
You may name it TV Wide or something.
4.) Octagon texture (8 sided
rectangle):
Now this is a little bit tougher, but I will try to
explain it as clearly as I can.
First create a new image 19px by 19px
with transparent background.
Now it will be very useful if you toggle the rulers
on (it's done by Ctrl+R and with this
combination you switch them off) because we will
have to select some hard pixels.
Now zoom it to 1600% and use the Rectangle
Selection Tool to get the pixels from 6
vertical (0 horizontal) to 14 vertical(1
horizontal) and fill it with black:
Now press Ctrl+Alt and Drag a
little bit the selection. You will notice it is
copied.
Hit Ctrl+T (to Free transform it),
then press Shift and rotate it 45
degrees. Do it on eye, but keep in mind that after
we position it, it should fill from 1px
horizontal (6px vertical) to 5px
horizontal(2px vertical).
It should look like this:
Now select what you have made so far (should be the
whole thing on the image up) and move it a bit while
holding Ctrl+Alt to copy it. Then
Edit -> Transform -> Rotate 90 CCW.
It should go like this:
Now select the upper left thin line (1px
horiz.-5px vert.; 5px horiz.-1px
vert.) and Ctrl + Alt move it to the
right side of the bottom. Do the same thing with the
other thin line untill you achieve this:
At last Edit -> Define Pattern and
name it Octagon. Now you can easily make hive
clusters or for example footballs :)).
This is all for today. If I think of another one I
will write it here. Hope they are usefull to you all
people. Have a nice time with PhotoShop- that's the
most important, also be creative and imaginative!!!
