FREE PHOTOSHOP TUTORIALS

Welcome to Red Pixel Media! In todays tutorial I’ll be showing you how to create a repeating texture that will make great patterns!

1. Open up your texture and increase the canvas size just to make thing’s easier to work with.

2. Select the top of your texture.

Select top of texture & copy.

3. Paste it twice.

4. Drag one copy to the bottom with half overlapping the edge.

5. Create layer mask (found under the layer’s toolbar area).

6. Take soft brush (0% hardness) and fade the top edge.

Blend top edge.

7. Select your other copy. Make sure it has not shifted and is in it’s original position; if it has moved then match it to it’s original position EXACTLY. Now hold down “control” and click the thumbnail of that layer. This will select it. Now click your main texture layer and press “delete”. Also Delete this top copy.

8. You will be left with the top portion gone, and the bottom blended. Merge all visible layers (right click in layers area and select merge visible).

9. Repeat steps for Left or Right edge.

10. Crop down to the exact size of the image. Then go Edit –> Define Pattern

DONE

From this point you can now use this seamless repeating texture in any layer effects under you pattern option.

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