The Pattern Maker filter is an advanced tool that provides even more ways to customize your patterns. An easy-to-use dialog box, shown in Figure 3-9, helps you build a pattern that will fill an entire layer of your choice. The cool part is that you can create a whole series of different patterns and review them to find the one you like best.
As with creating a pattern from a selection, you must use a rectangular shape to build your new pattern. If your selection is irregular or feathered when you enter the Pattern maker dialog box, Photoshop will force a rectangular selection around your irregular or feathered selection.
The most valuable feature of the Pattern Maker is that it creates patterns that tile smoothly. That is, you can repeat the pattern as many times as you need to fill an area, and the boundaries between sections blend together smoothly.
The filter’s dialog box has lots of features. Here’s a quick description of them:
- Tools palette: In the upper-left corner is a small tools palette, containing a Rectangular Marquee tool you can use to select the area to derive the pattern from, a Zoom tool to magnify or reduce the image, and a Hand tool to move the image around in the viewing window. Note that you can also press the Shift+Alt (Shift+Option on the Mac) and Shift+Ctrl (Shift+Ô on the Mac) shortcuts to zoom in and out.
- Status bar: Along the bottom edge is a status bar that shows the following bits of information:
* Magnification of the preview
* Width and height of the whole image in pixels
* Tile grid, the number of copies of the image that will be needed to fill the entire selected layer
* Sample, the width and height in pixels of the current image area selected by the Marquee tool
* Preview, the number of different patterns you’ve generated so far from the current sample (more on this in a bit)
- Tile Generation: This area shows the size of the tiled image that Photoshop creates, the type of offset used (horizontal, vertical, or none), and the amount of smoothness and detail in the sample picture.
- Preview: This area governs whether the preview window shows the original image or the patterns you generate, and whether a boundary separates the patterns.
- Tile History: This area provides a slide show of all the patterns you generate.
As with creating a pattern from a selection, you must use a rectangular shape to build your new pattern. If your selection is irregular or feathered when you enter the Pattern maker dialog box, Photoshop will force a rectangular selection around your irregular or feathered selection.
The most valuable feature of the Pattern Maker is that it creates patterns that tile smoothly. That is, you can repeat the pattern as many times as you need to fill an area, and the boundaries between sections blend together smoothly.
The filter’s dialog box has lots of features. Here’s a quick description of them:
- Tools palette: In the upper-left corner is a small tools palette, containing a Rectangular Marquee tool you can use to select the area to derive the pattern from, a Zoom tool to magnify or reduce the image, and a Hand tool to move the image around in the viewing window. Note that you can also press the Shift+Alt (Shift+Option on the Mac) and Shift+Ctrl (Shift+Ô on the Mac) shortcuts to zoom in and out.
- Status bar: Along the bottom edge is a status bar that shows the following bits of information:
* Magnification of the preview
* Width and height of the whole image in pixels
* Tile grid, the number of copies of the image that will be needed to fill the entire selected layer
* Sample, the width and height in pixels of the current image area selected by the Marquee tool
* Preview, the number of different patterns you’ve generated so far from the current sample (more on this in a bit)
- Tile Generation: This area shows the size of the tiled image that Photoshop creates, the type of offset used (horizontal, vertical, or none), and the amount of smoothness and detail in the sample picture.
- Preview: This area governs whether the preview window shows the original image or the patterns you generate, and whether a boundary separates the patterns.
- Tile History: This area provides a slide show of all the patterns you generate.
Using the Pattern Maker Filter in Photoshop
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