This collection focuses on pattern, including how to create pattern and techniques of using pattern. How to create halftone patterns, wrap patterns around your favorite car, add a circular, polka-dot pattern to any work in Photoshop, or create complex background patterns? All of these will be addressed in this collection. Patterns are everywhere. Look around and you’ll probably find one suitable for your works.
1. How To Make A Polka Dot Pattern In Photoshop
Patterns are an easy way to add creativity to an image or design in Photoshop. As simple as they are, polka-dot patterns are very effective. Here is an easy way to add a circular, polka-dot pattern to any work in Photoshop.
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2. Create amazing patterns with letters
An introduction to experimental typography – break away from structure or meaning and create art with letters.
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3. 6 Techniques to Compose Your Work Using Repeating Shapes and Flexible Patterns
Let’s take a look at some digital illustration techniques that you can use in your artwork. Try analyzing artist’s work to discover not only how they do something, but also why they might use a certain technique. Pick a vantage point and look at the work from that particular view. In this article, we have an analytical lens we’ll be looking through. We’ll consider the use of repeating shapes and flexible patterns being used by artists today.
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4. Create a Cool Halftone Effect
In this tutorial, we’re going to go a bit retro. You’ll learn how to create halftone patterns and creatively cut up an image of a model holding a boombox. You’ll then use those cut elements to make your design. We use some layer styles to get everything to come together cohesively. The effects are fun, and you can apply these methods to other designs as well.
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5. Best Pattern Resources on the Web
Know of any more good ones? Please leave a comment below and I’ll add it!
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Patterns are everywhere. Look around and you’ll probably see one right now. It might be a pattern on a tie, pants, a shirt… the list goes on and on.
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7. Design stunning skate deck art using patterns
Ben Beach of ilovedust reveals how to use Illustrator to create chaotic, repeating vector patterns ideal for skatedeck art.
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8. Easy Star Light in Photoshop
I’ve been writing tutorials inspired by skateboard deck designs for a few weeks and today it’s not going to be different. I’m very addicted to that, I love the ideas some of the designers have and for this tutorial I will recreate a really nice effect with lines forming a star. However I will go a little bit further and I will transform it in a light effect and add a nice pattern overlay. Everything using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
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9. How to Create a Copper Photoshop Text Effect
This is a strong and eye-catching text effect, though relatively simple to create. We’ll be using bevel and emboss styles, pattern overlays, and combining different techniques to mock-up the text into a related background. For PLUS Members, the main layer style is ready to copy and paste into your designs as well.
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10. How a Simple Layout Can Be Mixed ‘n’ Matched with Patterns, Photos and Backgrounds
It’s pretty amazing how much colour and background can change the look and feel of a website. In this tutorial we’re going to put together a quick, simple but effective layout and then create variations using backgrounds, photos and patterns. We’ll also look at how to make seamless tiled backgrounds out of a photo, methods for ending a single photo and simple ways to create pixel patterns. In short it’s a jam packed tutorial!
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11. Create a Glowing Surreal Planet Design
This time I’ll show you how to create a glowing planet design. You’ll learn how to create a planet from a panoramic picture, use the Lens Correction Filter, create complex background patterns, and more.
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12. Create a Wavy Blackberry Style Wallpaper Design
In this tutorial I will show you how to create an abstract background image using Photoshop only. The design has a cool wavy pattern with interesting lighting effects, like the Blackberry 9000 wallpaper. This is a tutorial you can sit down and complete in less than an hour. Let’s get started.
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13. Creating A Cool Vintage Collage Design In Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a retro-style design or vintage collage style. We will use images from old ads, handwritten texts, patterns, and other things to give to our design a vintage look.
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14. Creating an Unique Profile Image
This tutorial will show simple ways to create an interesting ID or profile image for yourself that you can use in design portals or forums. It mainly covers how to define patterns and masking layers.
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15. Decorate Your Own Hello Kitty Car
Inspired by a car I saw on my way to work. This simple tutorial will focus on using Warp Transform tool to wrap patterns around your favorite car.
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