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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 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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CYRIL said on — March 28, 2008 @ 10:31 am
I am inspired. Thanks
thug_life said on — March 30, 2008 @ 11:43 pm
wow great job thx for the tuto
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!
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!
Alexander said on — July 4, 2008 @ 6:36 pm
And what about text?
Didn’t get it 