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Pattern Maker

 

Here are some interesting ways to use Photoshop’s Pattern Maker feature to create background effects for your image and text designs.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

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13 Comments

  1. CYRIL said on — March 28, 2008 @ 10:31 am

    I am inspired. Thanks

  2. thug_life said on — March 30, 2008 @ 11:43 pm

    wow great job thx for the tuto

  3. MasterMind77 said on — June 8, 2008 @ 7:43 pm

    I’m just learning photoshop and this tutorial was awesome! thanx, now I’m gonna make my own patterns!

  4. mitzs said on — June 8, 2008 @ 11:52 pm

    That was another great one Corey. I liked both of them, but the first one would be great for people who do scrapbooking. They could take the persons name and scatter it like that and set the picture of the person on top of it. I am gonna go do that for my neice right now. Thanks Corey!

  5. Alexander said on — July 4, 2008 @ 6:36 pm

    And what about text? :) Didn’t get it :P

  6. Marcio said on — October 14, 2008 @ 4:50 pm

    Hey you are great! wonder if you can make a tutorial on how to make scary scenery! i saw a vid that showed how to transform your face to a zombie look…wonder if u wanna try something out

  7. Werner Pavlovich said on — February 14, 2009 @ 6:46 pm

    “Words can not express what words can not express”!….But your visuals and words tell alot.
    Thanks,
    Werner

  8. Paulina said on — April 1, 2009 @ 4:42 am

    Corey this tutorial is extremely cool, esey to follow,easy tu understand. Good on ya mate! as somebody would say here.

  9. How can i create a wallpaper using adobe photoshop cs2? Pingback on — April 1, 2009 @ 11:36 am

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  10. Where’s My PatternMaker? | Blog | Planet Photoshop Pingback on — April 29, 2009 @ 10:26 am

    [...] me. I try and look at these things very differently and see what use it might have. For instance, here is one way I used the Pattern Maker for an interesting background effect. However, like the Extract [...]

  11. Márcio Guerra said on — April 30, 2009 @ 6:42 am

    Hi! I came back here from the first page, from your post, well… So the new version of Photoshop doesn’t have this feature… I must say that I feel that usually they should wait some versions, not just one, to see what people really think of the app, not just the feedback sent to them, but people «with power» like you (you can begin a lobby with Scott Kelby and other people you guys know) can send them the feedback needed so that they don’t end up with features like this… Although, I must say, from the pattern itself, I don’t see much of a point in keeping it… But, that is like most stuff… After seeing the tutorial by itself I seen a nice stuff YOU can do with almost everything from Photoshop… This is why I said… If you feel it is useful… Go for it! Do a poll here at Planet Photopshop and ask people what they think, to keep, to return, to dump, whatever!
    Mate, keep your tutorials like this, they are really nice and good!

    Márcio Guerra

    P.s.- I will just copy/paste this comment to the post itself!

  12. 1luv1faith said on — May 13, 2009 @ 10:42 pm

    This definitely works for me! After trying to create an image to appear as if it was crumpling (for hours end), I was able to use the pattern maker. Thank you Corey, you’re the best! I only wish I started using adobe in 1997 … when I first started out. Man would I be advanced! oh well

  13. dee said on — July 23, 2009 @ 11:58 pm

    always inspired and awed at your artistic abilities and very cool instinct imagination
    kudos
    diana

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