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SOME PHOTOSHOP INSPIRATION EDIT FILL PATTERN SCRIPTS By Andrew Haysom
It constantly surprises me how often I find things in Photoshop that I didn’t know were there. This article documents one such I found just last week. In the Edit Fill dialog there is an option to fill with a custom pattern, first let’s remind ourselves how to create a custom pattern. Load the image or element you want to use on a transparent background, then create a selection around the object. Choose Edit / Define Pattern. In Figure 1 I have used a skull postage stamp found on Pixabay. Type a name for your pattern and press OK.
[Figure 1 – Define Pattern dialog]
Now to use this to fill, create a new document with a transparent background and choose Edit / Fill from the menu. The Edit Fill dialog (shown in Figure 2) is presented. Choose Pattern from the Contents drop-down list, then choose the custom pattern you just created (or the one you want to use) from the Custom Pattern drop-down list. When Pattern is chosen a check-box labelled Script is activated, which when checked activates another drop-down list to choose from a number of scripts that allow a number of ways to fill your image with the chosen pattern.
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