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Photoshop Seamless textures & halftones to make and sell - A Graphic Design for Lunchâ„¢ Class

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    • 1.

      Photoshop Textures and Texture Halftones Introduction

      1:04

    • 2.

      Pt 1 Texture background

      9:19

    • 3.

      Pt 2 Texture background in use in a pattern

      3:33

    • 4.

      Pt 3 Texture to halftone pattern

      8:53

    • 5.

      Pt 4 Sharpen the halftone texture

      4:34

    • 6.

      Pt 5 Another halftone sharpened example

      2:03

    • 7.

      Pt 6 Halftone texture in use in a pattern

      5:42

    • 8.

      Pt 7 Halftone and Dots Layered Pattern

      10:23

    • 9.

      Photoshop Textures and Texture Halftones project and wrap up

      1:16

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Seamless textures & halftones in Photoshop to make and sell - A Graphic Design for Lunchâ„¢ Class

In this class you will learn how to make seamless textures and seamless halftone patterns in Adobe Photoshop. These patterns can be packaged for sale as digital resources themselves, they can be combined into other patterns, and they can be used as backgrounds for other creative work - the possibilities are varied. You can complete this class using practically any version of Photoshop except for the last lesson which relies on a feature only available in Photoshop CC 2021 and later.

This is the cover art that I created using one of these halftone repeat patterns and some free artwork (available for commercial purposes from from heritabetype.com

As you study this class you will learn not only how to make these patterns but also lots of handy tips and tricks for working in Adobe Photoshop every day.  I hope you enjoy this class!

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Helen teaches the popular Graphic Design for Lunch™ courses which focus on teaching Adobe® Photoshop®, Adobe® Illustrator®, Procreate®, and other graphic design and photo editing applications. Each course is short enough to take over a lunch break and is packed with useful and fun techniques. Class projects reinforce what is taught so they too can be easily completed over a lunch hour or two.

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1. Photoshop Textures and Texture Halftones Introduction: Hello and welcome to this class, textures and halftones seamless repeats in Adobe Photoshop. My name is Helen Bradley and I'm a Skillshare top teacher. I have over 270 courses here on Skillshare and over 168,000 student enrollments. Now, if you've ever struggled with patterns that are just too perfect and which needs some visual interest, then this class is for you. I'll show you how to create subtle yet really useful textures and textured halftones that are seamless repeat all using Photoshop. You can use these patterns inside other patterns and illustrations for additional visual interests and they're well-suited for sale and distribution as digital assets. In this course, I'll take you through creating each of these designs step-by-step, so that by the end of the class, you'll have made these patterns and be ready to package them for sale or to use yourself. It wouldn't be a graphic design for lunch class if you didn't also learn lots of handy Photoshop tips and techniques along the way. Without further ado, let's get started making patterns with textures and halftones in Adobe Photoshop. 2. Pt 1 Texture background: One of the most useful but often overlooked types of patterns that you can create in Photoshop are texture patterns. Now these can be used with other objects to make a pattern that has a texture background. But you could also for example sell them as textures that people can use in their art. We're going to see how to create those here. We're going to start with a new file. Now because we're going to be using this clouds filter, it's really important the starting size of your document. I'm going to start with something that is 1,024 by 1,024. The reason for this is that the clouds filter that we're going to apply to this document will be a seamless repeat if you make it in a document that is a multiple of two. If you multiply two by itself, often enough, you will get 1,024. That's one of those magic numbers, so I'm just creating mine at 1,024. Over here I'm going to click on this icon, or I could press the letter D to get what are called the default colors, black and white. Then we're going to Filter and then Render, and then Clouds. Now if you don't like your first set of clouds, you can go back and choose Filter and then Clouds and you'll get a different version, and you can keep doing that until you get a set of clouds that you like. But right now we don't really know what we're aiming for so clouds or clouds or clouds. I'm going to click here on the unlock icon in the last pallete, so make sure you have your layers palette visible. You can get to it, of course, by choosing Window and then Layers, or you can press the F7 function key. Now we need three copies of this layer and you can choose New layer via copy or you can learn the keystroke. In this case, I'm on a PC, it's Control and J on a Mac, it's Command J. You're just going to make three additional copies, so you have four in total. Now we're going to enlarge our canvas. You're going to Image and then Canvas size. It's really important to check that you've got canvas size. The other options don't work the same way, so it canvas size. We're going to make this double the size. If we multiply 1,024 by 2, it's gonna be 2,048 by 2,048. Then we're going to click down here to put all this artwork in the bottom corner. We just want it lined up neatly, so I'll click "Okay". Now over here in the Layers palette, I'm going to target this topmost layer, doesn't matter which one I targeted at this point. I'm going to the Move tool and up here with these three little icons, I'm going to set a Line 2 to canvas. Then I'm going to move this up to this corner. I'm going to click on this one to make sure it's left-aligned, and then click on the top one to make sure it's top-aligned. Let's go to this one. Let's send it over here. We want to send it to the right and we want to send it to the top. Then this one here is going to the bottom right. Let's send it to the right and let's double-check to make sure it's in the bottom by clicking the bottom line. Now at this point, when you look at your document, if you've done this correctly, you should not see it same. The place where you're going to see it same as in the middle because that's where all of these line up and so as I'm zooming in, I'm not saying any seams in this document, so that's a visual check that everything is working perfectly. We're going to make a single layer out of these four layers. You can just select over all four of these. Click on the first one shift, click on the last one, right-click and just merge them. That just merges them into a single layer. We've got everything all together on one layer. Now, for a texture pattern, this has got way too much detail in it. The first thing I'm going to do is blur it. I'm going to filter blur and I'm going to Gaussian blur. With Gaussian blur, you can blur things to make them less visible, less intense if you like. That's what we're doing here. You can take your blow wherever you like. I'm thinking that I want a fairly big blur, so I'm going up into maybe around the 80s here on this document. You can start to see the repeating pattern here. You can see this element here is a repeat of this element here is a repeat of this element here is that repeat this element here. That's the way it should be. Just select a blur that is blurring your stuff pretty intensely, so I'll click "Okay". Now the other thing that we want to do here is we want to make it flat up. The colors here are way too intense. If we make this as a pattern, that's going to be really obvious that there's a pattern going on here. I'm going to choose Image and then adjustments, and I'm going to use a levels adjustment, so just click on levels. Typically when you use a levels adjustment, you're going to be using these indicators here underneath the histogram, so you'll be using these three. But in this case, we're going to be using output levels because what we want to do is reduce the darkness in these dark areas. I'm going to leave mine a little bit more intense than you're going to, because it's going to be a bit easier for you to see what's going on. But just believe me, you want to take this quite a ways across. It's almost all white but not quite so you can just see some texture through it, just a little bit of texture. But as I said, I'm going to make mine a little bit more intense because I want you to be able to see what's happening here. This little bit of variation of color is going to be key to making a texture image that's going to be texture, but it's not going to be intense. It's not going to be really obvious what's going on, but it's going to be subtle and really attractive, so I'll click, "Okay". This is a potential seamless repeating pattern. We're going to add a rectangle to the documents. I'll go to the shapes collection, click on Rectangle, make sure you have shape selected up here. Make sure that you have the stroke set to none, at all and fill you can just make whatever color you like. You're going to click once in the document and you're going to make a rectangle of 1,024 by 1,024. In other words, they start in documents size, it's the document that we created first off and click "Okay". Then over here in the last palette, I like to drop down the opacity of this layer, so it's transparent. Want to be able to half-set. I'm going to turn off its visibility. At this point, I'm going to Control or Command click on this rectangle here, and that is a seamless pattern. We'll go to "Edit" and we'll go to "Define pattern". I'm going to call this texture. We're going to test it because we want to make sure that everything's working before we go and do too much with it. I'm going to create a document that is about three and a bit times the size of this starting document. 3,600 by 3,600, three of my patterns are going to fit in across the top and three down, nine in total virtually. Let's unlock this background layer and let's go to Window and then Patterns because I wanted to see our patterns, last pattern here is the one we just created, and I'm going to just click to add it to the document. Then I'm going to zoom in to around about this one or two four marks. I'm just going to look in this area and make sure that it's not obvious where these designs, where these pattern pieces all line up and it's not obvious at all. You can say this is a pretty intense pattern. I would not make mine anywhere near as dark as this, just wanted you to be able to see it. But this is a subtle texture that you can use, and of course, once you've created it, you can come back in here. Let me just turn off my selection with select de-select, could come in here and I could add some color to it. I'm going to choose Layer, New adjustment layer, and I'll choose Hue Saturation and click "Okay". Let's find our hue saturation adjustment, which has just disappeared on me. I'm going to click on "Colorize", and I'm going to start walking my colors around. You could create a texture that actually had some color in it. For example, if we wanted to make something with some blue dots later on like a polka dot pattern, then I might go for something that's a turquoise blue that I could use. You can also kill some of the color at this point by increasing the lightness. That will reduce the contrast here, and with saturation down, you're going to get more of a grayscale look with a bit of color rather than a really intense color. But again, it's entirely up to you what you want to do. I like this, so let's just go with something that we can see. Again, I'm going to control-click on the layer thumbnail here because this is just marking out our pattern paste. Just keep that rectangle in there, you're going to use it over and over again. Edit, Define pattern. I'll just click "Okay". For now, let's go back in here. Let's go to Patterns which I lost window and then Patterns, and then click to add it to the document. Again, this is another seamless repeating pattern. These are textures that you can use. In the next video, we're going to have a look and see how we could actually use this within a design so that it's a background rather than being the entire effect. 3. Pt 2 Texture background in use in a pattern: So having created our basic texture, let's have a look and see how we could use this texture as a background to a design. I'm going to start a brand new document with File New and I'm going back to that starting document size. Again, this is really critical stuff. I'm making it a 1,024 by 1,024. Then I'm going to fill it with my pattern. You can do this any one of a number of ways. I'm just going to unlock the background here and I'm just going to click on my pattern to add it to the document. Now the important thing at this stage is that you don't change the size of the pattern. If I double-click here, you'll see that's scaled at 100 percent. It has to be scaled at 100 percent. Or you could scale it at 50 percent. Whatever it is, you need to have a fixed number of your pattern pieces in your document. But seriously, just doing it at 100 percent in a document the same size as your starting size is the best idea. Now let's have a look and see how we might use this. I'm going to make this a polka dot pattern. I'm going to the Ellipse tool. I've got my fill as just a similar turquoise color. I'm just going to drag out holding the Shift key. A shape that has a fill and no stroke and that is the shape so that's made life a bit easier. I'm going to place it in the middle of the document. If I have trouble with that, I'm just going here, make sure that says canvas. I'm just going to align this to the center of the document. I'm going to make a duplicate of this, drag it onto the plus symbol, make a copy, doesn't really matter which option you use. In this case, I'm going to change the color, so I'm going back to one of my shape tools, doesn't matter which. Let's go and choose a pink color. Now, this one, I need to throw to the corners of the documents. I'm going to use a filter to do this. Filter, Other, and we'll use the offset filter. I'm going to convert this to a smart object or I could rasterize it, doesn't really matter too much. In this case, we want to set the horizontal and vertical offsets because our document is square, they're going to be the exact same value, but we want to set them to half of the document width and height. The document is a 1,024. Half of 1,024 is 512. We'll just type in here 512 and 512. That throws a quarter of the circle into each of the corners of this document. I'll click Okay. This is a seamless repeating pattern and it's got texture behind it. Let's choose Edit and then Define Pattern. Let's go and test it. As you can see, our texture is, as I said before, it's really obvious, way more obvious than I would want it to be, but I want you to be able to see what the effect is like. You've got a polka dot pattern, but in this case, it's got a little bit of texture behind it. Something that is a bit more interesting perhaps than a static background that is the same across the entire document. Combining these textures with a regular pattern, you can get a more interesting look to your document. But of course, it doesn't finish there. Let's go back to our original pattern. Let's turn off our selection and let's have a look and see what we can do in terms of, for example, making this a half tone and we're going to do that in the next video. 4. Pt 3 Texture to halftone pattern: Right now we've got our color layer here, and we've got our original pattern. I'm going to select both of these. I'm going to put them in a group, so I'm just going to click here on the Group icon. That's going to make things a little bit easier because we're about to apply some filters to this. With the group selected, I'm going to choose Filter, and then convert for smart filters and click ''Okay''. This is now a smart object. This will mean that the filters that we apply can be edited, removed, or that sort of thing. Just going to make development of this a whole lot easier. The first one I'm going to choose is a color halftone. I'll go to Filter and we'll go to Pixelate and Color Halftone. Now, the way that I've found that this works particularly well or reasonably well, is to make sure that the radius of your shape that you're going to create is going to be a multiple of two. In this case I'm using eight because that's going to be giving me a nice small dot and eight is a factor of two. Multiply two by itself three times, two by two by two and you get eight. Now with the channels, if you want the colors to be on top of each other, which you do, you want to make sure that these are all the exact same value. I've found that a good rotation for this is 45 degrees. Let's make them all 45 degrees. All the dots are going to be on top of each other and the arrangement is going to be a really pretty diamond shape instead of for example a grid shape. I think it's a nicer look, so I'll just click "Okay''. Let's have a look in here. We've got these little shapes here, these eight pixel shapes that we've created. They are arranged in a diamond shape rather than a grid shape. It's a prettier sort of arrangement, I think, and I've got texture in them. You can see the texture coming through here. This, again, can be made into a seamless repeating pattern. What we've got here is a seamless repeating halftone texture pattern. Control click on the rectangle here, we're going to choose Edit and obviously Define Pattern, click ''Okay'', and then we're going to test it because in a minute things are not going to work correctly and we need to test things so that we know when they don't work and so that we can fix them. Let's go back to this document, double-click on this, and go to the very last pattern, which is going to be the halftone that we just created. We're going to zoom in here because we need to make sure that there are no vertical lines in this design at all. You can see that they're not. That's why that pixel halftone pattern works particularly well. I haven't had any difficulty with this working. It's worked every single time. The halftone itself, although these dots when you're getting close, they all look the same, they're not. They are different levels of colors, so they're bringing in the texture with them. There's another way that you can use the halftone. Let's go back to this, and let's turn off this selection with select, deselect. Let's go back into the color halftone and we're actually going to delete that. We're going to this time use a different filter. We'll go to Filter and then Filter Gallery, because there is a halftone here in the filter gallery that has a different look to it. Here we are in the halftone. It's in the sketch group here. You'll open up the sketch group and go to Halftone. Now, you can get dot or line or circle, it's dot that you want and size, try it with different sizes and it's failing. It's not as easy to create as a pattern as the other one was, but it still works really well. Just need to work out how to make it work. I'm just going to adjust the contrast here. If you adjust the contrast really high, you get a really sharp pattern. I like to sharpen it later on, so I actually think it looks better at a lower contrast and we'll sharpen it by hand later on. So let's just click ''Okay''. Now at this stage you'll notice that our color halftone is black and white. The reason it's black and white is this color over here. Now we can re-color it if we want to later on by putting a color adjustment layer on top of it. Don't worry about that at this stage. However, had you done the halftone effect with a color instead of black, let me just show you what that's going to look like. Let's turn off our filter gallery and let's go back and do it again, Filter Gallery. This time when I go into halftone because I set my colors to that turquoise and white, that's the color I'm getting for my halftone, so I could just click ''Okay'', so I've got a couple of options here. I could do a black one or I can do the turquoise one. Just be aware that those are your options. In fact, I think I'm going to opt for the turquoise. Let's control click on this. This is our selection. I don't think it's going to work. We might be lucky, let's choose Edit and Define Pattern. We'll go and test it. It's not working. For some reason, we lose the size of the pattern at this point and we end up with something that's a little bit intense here. You can see that these are not lining up at this point. What we're going to do is ask ourselves by how much are they not lined up? It looks like it's not far off but just a little off. Let's go back to here. Let's deselect our selection with Select and then Deselect. Now I'm going to add another rectangle. So I'm going to the rectangle shape tool. Let's choose a different color this time, a sort of pink color. I don't want it to have any stroke. I'm going to click in the document. It's going to be 1,024 by 1,024. I think that this is the wrong size. That's fine because we're going to experiment with making it the right size. I'm just going to drag down on the opacity here. I'm going to zoom in and I'm going to place this in a known location. What I'm thinking of is the middle of this white box so that the middle corner of this shape is in the middle of the white box. That's pretty good here. I'm going to re-select the shape and I'm going to the properties panel because ultimately this shape has to be a whole number of pixels. I'm going to take it down to 1,022 by 1,022. My guess is that it needs to be a square because the pattern when we had it here was out on both dimensions. I think a square is still going to be a good value, but it needs to be smaller. I'm going to start with 1,020 and 1,022. To make this a pattern, I'm going to control click on this shape here, although I need to turn it off at this stage, I'll choose Edit and then Define Pattern and click ''Okay'', and then we'll test it. Double-click on the pattern here, and click the last most pattern. It seems like this has worked really well. Let's just drag it around. I only needed to drop that down to pixels in dimensions. In the past, I've had to drop others down by four pixels. It is a little bit hit or miss here. You won't be able to necessarily get it right the first time. But it's going to be a really small value that you're going to adjust by and you'll just drop your rectangle's size or your square size down by one or two or three pixels at a time until you get that sweet value that is giving you that seamless repeating pattern. Here I'm going to call this pattern for halftone. Whatever I do with this halftone, provided, I select this one, there's a really good chance it's going to be the right size. This one's going to be a pattern for not halftone. This one is the one that's set at the correct value, which should work in most cases. The halftone one is an adjustment because somehow that halftone filter that we use in the filter gallery throws off the dimensions and 1,024 and 1,024 is no longer something that gives us a seamless repeating pattern, but alter it a little bit, you should be able to find the sweet spot. I haven't missed a sweet spot yet, but it does tend to differ from design to design. 5. Pt 4 Sharpen the halftone texture: Now I mentioned to you when we actually applied this halftone to this shape, that we would not sharpen it up using that contrast setting in the filters. Instead, what we're going to do is we're going to apply a sharpening effect. I've just de-select the selection because otherwise, that would only sharpen part of the image. I'm going to the group that we're working with and I'll choose filter and then sharpen. I'm going to use Unsharp Mask. Now, Unsharp Mask sounds counterintuitive. It sounds like it's not going to sharpen, but in actual fact, it does sharpen. Your going to crank the amount up to a really high value. Experiment with it, but I like it taken up all away. Radius what I'm looking for is something in this box that is interesting. I don't want it to be too dark, although you can lighten it, of course later on. But I did want this second color to come in. You might be able to see it here in that we're getting aqua or turquoise and then we're getting a darker turquoise in there. By applying this sharpening, we can get a really interesting effect in here. That's what I'm looking for. Then you'll just adjust threshold to suit, which will give you a result that you like, or just adjust it to something else. I'm actually liking this effect. All you're looking for is something in here that you like. Of course, you can always dial this down by applying an adjustment layer to it. So we'll go to layer, new adjustment layer and we'll go back to levels. Because we know that with the levels adjustment if I can find it here it is. If we drag in on this slide, here we're going to lighten the effect. We're going to reduce the effect to practically not very much, but here's a really nice little somewhat sharpened color halftone here. There's the before and after on the color and let's have a look at the before and after on the sharpening. You can say this is the before and this is the more sharpened version. My guess is that because we haven't changed the halftone pattern, we've just changed it by sharpening it and applying a different lightning effect to it. But we haven't actually changed the placement of it, that this pattern for halftone is going to be the right rectangle to use. I'm going to Control-click on its thumbnail and go to Edit Define Pattern. Well, I can't do that right now. Let me just see what's happening here. Let's select, de-select. Let's control. Click on that, that's better. I've got the actual group selected here. I think that's going to work better. Of course, it does. I'll click " Okay" go back to our design, double-click on this and go and get the last pattern, which is this lighter version and sharper version of our halftone. Again, we're going to look at any here very closely to make sure we can't see any lines. But that was the value in keeping that rectangle that was sized slightly differently because it is actually the correct size for this halftone pattern. There's another pattern to make and sell or give away, and it's got some texture behind it. Very subtle, but enough to be more than just a very strict halftone pattern. There's some lightness and darkness in there that somebody could use for adding a background to a design of some sort. Of course, once you've got this design, you can start working with it. You can change its colors, you can do all things with it. I would also encourage you to play around in the filter gallery. Just go into the filter gallery and experiment with things that you can use in the filter gallery to add effect to your artwork. Not all of these are going to work. Some of these will add some lightning effects to your image that aren't going to work. But some of them might give you an interesting effect. You might just want to play around with them. Let me cancel out of here. Also, be aware that the starting colors that you use are going to affect some of the filters. Some of the filters use the foreground and background color as elements when they're actually applying the filter. If you choose different colors, you might get different effects there too. 6. Pt 5 Another halftone sharpened example: Now, I went back and did some editing to the original document that we were working with. What we were working with earlier was this filter gallery and this unsharp mask. What I did was I chose pink and yellow. I turned off the filter gallery options, and I went back in and I applied the halftone filter, this time using pink and yellow. You can see that the effect is to get pink and yellow background rather than that aqua and white. Then because I still had the unsharp mask that I had applied previously, I applied it, but it didn't give me really the effect that I wanted, so I applied it a second time. This is my second unsharp mask. You can see that it's actually ended up with a dot in the middle, so I really like this design a lot. It looks like a regular halftone, but when you get right into it, it's got some really interesting dimension in it. Of course, it's still got that texture behind it. There are some darker areas and some lighter areas here. I saved that also as a pattern, and here it is at work again. It's got that slightly, I'm not perfect look about it. It's hard to pick out because it's only just a subtle texture through that clouds filter, but it's enough to give it something that feels a little bit more grunge, a little bit more retro perhaps, a little bit more textured, a little less perfect, so it's a really nice pattern. Personally, I'm really pleased with this one. I like it a lot. Of course, that was the combination of the pink and yellow, just trying to not give it such a light background. Let's have a look at the previous version, which was that turquoise version, that's what we had there, and here is the pink and yellow version. Just another interesting variety here in these halftone patterns all derived, of course, from this Cloud's filter, which allows us to create seamless repeating patterns from them. 7. Pt 6 Halftone texture in use in a pattern: Now that we've got these lovely halftone patterns, let's have a look and see how we might use them. I'm going to create a new document this time. Let's just create something that's 1000 by 1000 because this is not going to be a seamless repeating pattern. It's just an example as to how you might use one of these seamless repeating patterns. I'm going to my Custom Shape Tool and I have added back into Photoshop the shapes that were in Photoshop for many years and are now no longer in Photoshop. If you need to get those go to Window and then Shapes to open up the Shapes panel, go to the Flyout menu here and choose Legacy Shapes and More, that will give you the legacy shapes. Now, I've popped them all in one group, which took me a little while to do. Let's just go and say, I've got this shape that I'm using here, this floral shape, which is from the Legacy Default Shape and here it is here. All I did was select that. I'm going to add it to my document. I'm just going to hold the Shift key as I drag down to fill it. At the moment, the fill color is a solid pink fill, but if I select one of the Shape tools and go up to fill and click here on patterns, I'll get access to my patterns, and of course, the last pattern here is the pattern that we created earlier this halftone pattern and I can scale it at this point, so I'm going to bring it down to about 30 percent in terms of size. Now, in the background, I like to use this yellow color, so I'm just going to flip these around and go to the background and just drop this color in this yellow color. At this point, you can say that the pattern is being lost a little bit so this is what I'm going to do a couple of things. Firstly, I'm going to drag to make a duplicate of this floral ornaments. That's not working, let's just see if I can get it where it's supposed to be. What I'm going to do with this one is I'm going to flip it so it doesn't have any fill at all, and so its stroke is the pink color we've been working with. But I don't want it to have a very wide stroke, so let's take it down to about four pixels. Then I'm going to move it. I'm going to just grab it with the move tool and just shift it so it is slightly away from the original. There is an offset, if you like, between the outline and the actual pattern fill. Let me go to the other pattern fill layer and I'm going to choose New Adjustment Layer Levels and click, "Okay" because levels is a nice easy adjustment to use here and what we're going to do is move this along, and take it so that it's darkening everything up. But at the moment, I'm just concentrating on the pink and not on the fact that it's affecting the yellow as well. If we want to limit it so it only affects the pink layer and not the yellow layer, we're going to click here on this option, which is a clipping mask. This levels adjustment, which is darkening the pattern that we created is actually only impacting the layer directly below, which is the one that actually contains the filled shapes. Let's say here it's only affecting that layer and not the yellow layer. This is an interesting effect, you could even change the color here. You may want to go for a blue color, for example, on your stroke, which would be perfectly possible. Let's go and get a not really blue, but almost blue color here and let me just click away. These halftone effects can be used to fill shapes in Photoshop and effects like this are cute to make. Now, of course, this could be made into a seamless repeating pattern because we're not actually using the halftone filter to fill the entire document. The fact that it's not a repeat size is not going to matter. Let me just take all of these three pieces that are together making up this shape, and let me just size them down a little bit. I'm going to hold the Alt+K, but that's all just to size them so that they're a bit smaller in the document. At this point, I would make a smart object out of these three, so I select all three layers and Convert to Smart Objects. We've got the offset lines, the halftone fill, and also that levels adjustment are all inside this one Smart Objects, so I'm going to make a duplicate of it, and then I'm just going to send the duplicate to the corners Filter, Other, Offset. This document was 1000 by 1000 pixels. I'm going to make the offset 500 and 500. Just don't get caught up with the fact that it looks almost okay. It's about to be a disaster if you don't get the right values here. I've just thrown it, to each corner using 500 and 500 and I'll click, "Okay." This is a seamless repeating pattern. Let's go back to our document that has our patterns in it. Let's go and get this new pattern and here is a seamless repeat that inside these shapes has got our little halftone pattern inside it. Again, so much that you can do with these textures once you've created them. Lots of creative possibilities. 8. Pt 7 Halftone and Dots Layered Pattern: For this pattern, we're going to make the half tone itself, the hero, and we're going to soften it with some polka dots. Now, this is going to be a layered pattern. Again, dimensions are going to be really important here, but we're going to start with a smaller file than we've been using, going to new file and it's going to be 512 by 512 pixels in size. That's one of those magic multiplied by two numbers. I have the black and white color set here. If they're not, just click there to select them. Then we'll go to Filter and then Render and Clouds. This is our starting point. Here I'm going to unlock the background layer so that we can do something with it. We need another three copies of this so I'm just pressing Control J on a PC, Command J on the Mac. Now, we're going to adjust the canvas size using image and then canvas size. We're taking this to double the size, which is 1024 by 1024. Just make sure to place your content in one of the corners, just makes life a little bit easier. I'm going to the Move tool here go and make sure it's set to Canvas. I'm going to move these around. This one's going to the top-left. This one here is going to the top right. Then this one here can come down to the bottom-right, making sure that it all looks fine and there are no visible seams. Select everything, right-click, and choose Merge Layers. I'm going to make this a smart object. Right-click and choose Convert to Smart Object. That's going to let me make edits to it later on a little bit more easily. I'm going to apply a Gaussian blur filter to this with filter and then blur and Gaussian blur. This time, the blue is not going to be nearly so high. I want it to be a much smaller blue. I want to actually be able to see the cloud detail here. I'll click, "Okay." Then we're going to apply our half tone filter with filter and then Pixelate Color Halftone. I'm using eight as my value here again, and 45 for every single one of the channels. Because I'm working with a black and white image, I end up with a black halftone. I want it to be gray though, less than black. What I'm going to do is go into this Smart Object layer and just double-click on it. Because here, I can adjust the initial clouds filter and I'm going to do this by adding a layer. I'm going to layer new adjustment layer, and I'm going to use levels. Levels is an adjustment layer that allows us to flatten color, to lighten things, if you like. Now, I'm not going to use these sliders immediately under the histogram because that's not going to achieve what we want to do. We're going to take this slider down here. This is typically not a slider you'll use. I'm just going to drag in from the left-hand side because I want grays rather than blacks. Now, I'm finished with this image. It is a PSB file that tells you that it is an embedded smart object. You're just going to close it and you're going to say, "Yes, I do want to save it." That's going to tone down the impact of your halftone. It's going to make sure that the dots are a little bit more like dots and less jammed together. Just I think gives it a better look. Now, I also want this pattern to be a little more gray scale, so I'm going to come in here and do a new adjustment layer this time in the document itself. It's also going to be a levels adjustment, exactly the same thing. I'm going to walk in on this slider here to make it more gray than black. I want the halftone to be the hero here, but I don't want it to be black, I want it to be gray. Now, this can be made into a seamless repeating pattern. We just have to do as we've been doing all along, create a new shape, so I'm on the Shape tool here. Let's go and choose a color to use for this. We can say click once in the document. In this case we're making our rectangle 512 by 512, which was as you will recall, the starting size of our document before we doubled it. I'm just dragging down with the opacity. We can have a quick look at this and see if it looks like it's going to be a perfect repeat. I'm really confident with this one. I can move this around if I want to, but I'm confident that it's going to work just fine. Control click on the layer thumbnail, make sure to turn that color off because we don't want the color in our pattern and then choose Edit and Define Pattern. This is going to be big halftone. Now, in checking this particular pattern, we're going to create a document that is a multiple of the pattern size. The reason for this is twofold. First, we need to check that the pattern works, but also because I want to add some dots to it, I want the actual final pattern piece to be much, much bigger, but I want the dots to be bigger as well. By creating this at a small size, this halftone, and then using multiples of it in the actual pattern, I'm going to get a really interesting results. I'm going to choose File New, and I'm going to use a value that is some multiple of 512. So 512 by 10 would be 5,120. I don't think I'll go quite so big. I also don't have to go square at this point. What I'm going to do is create a rectangular document. As I said at this point it doesn't have to be squared, but it does have to be on each side a multiple of 512. I'm choosing for the width 2,048, which is 512 multiplied by 4. If I multiply 512 by 3, I get 1,536. I'll click, "Create." I need to fill this with my pattern and it absolutely has to be in at 100 percent. I'm just choosing Edit Fill. I've got this set to pattern. I'm going to select the last pattern in my pattern collection, which should be the pattern that we just created. I'll click, "Okay," and there, it's looking really good. Now we can zoom in and just double-check to make sure that the pattern's perfect and it is. Now, because of the size of this document, this too is a seamless repeating pattern, so this will repeat. When I save, I'm going to save the whole document and it's going to be a repeat. But to make the pattern that I'm going to use, I'm actually going to use the new pattern preview in Photoshop. I'm going to View, and I'm going to choose Pattern Preview. I'll be warned that it works best with smart objects. That's just fine. Not really interested in that right now. I'll click to add a new layer. Then I'm going to the Paintbrush tool. With the paintbrush tool, I'm going to select a hard round brush, just any hard round brush. I'm going to size it down. I'm using the open and closed square brackets. But you could also go up here in the brush panel and just increase or decrease the size of it. I just find the open and closed square brackets a little bit easier. Going to the Swatches panel because I want to use some of these light swatches. I'm just going to choose orange here, and I'm going to add a couple of orange dots. As soon as I go over the border here you'll say that it's repeating and that's the feature of this particular tool in Photoshop. This new pattern preview means that it's creating the pattern for us as we progress. I'm just going to put in a few dots of different colors here and different sizes. I think the sizing is also important that we use some different sized dots too. I'm going to call this good. When you're in this new pattern view to create a pattern, you're going to open up your pattern's panel. Of course, you can get to that by choosing window and then patterns. In the pattern's panel down the bottom here, you'll see a plus sign. You're going to click on that. That will be this new pattern. I'm going to click, "Okay," and that is one pattern. But I'd also like to get something a little bit more subtle than this. Let me just close down these panels and let's go to this layer here. We can still see the layers panel. We can have it visible when we're working in this pattern view. What I'm going to do is blend these dots in. I'm going to choose a different blend mode to use. I'm just running down the blend modes here to see if anything is going to give me what I want. Typically, color might work, but that's actually coloring these dots and that's not what I want. I'm just going to choose an option here. I'm going to choose dark and I'm going to dial down the opacity of these dots at the same time. I want something a little bit more subtle as well as a pattern. Let's just go for that opacity change. Now the opacity change here is only affecting this set of dots. It's not affecting the pattern underneath. The pattern underneath the half tone is not changing, just the dots are changing. I think that's a really nice pattern there. Let's go back to our pattern's panel and let's add this as another pattern. Now, let's test the pattern. To do this, we need a new document and it needs to be considerably bigger than the one we're working in. Remember, the one I'm working in 2048 by 1536, so a document that is for example 3600 by 3600 is going to take 1 plus times this pattern. This is going to give us a good test for it. Let's unlock this. Let's try the lighter one. Here is our seamless repeating pattern in our document. You'll see that there are no seam lines here. But we do have a very interesting design here. Here is the one that has the dots that are fully opaque, not transparent as these are because of the blend mode that we used. 9. Photoshop Textures and Texture Halftones project and wrap up: We've now completed the video training portion of this course, so it's over to you. Your project for this class is to create one or more of these textured patterns in Adobe Photoshop. Post an image of your completed pattern as your class project. Now you can show the pattern itself or the pattern in use in another pattern or illustration. I'm so looking forward to seeing your class projects and I also hope that you've enjoyed this course and that you've learned lots about creating seamless textures in Photoshop. If you did enjoy this course and when you see a prompt that asks you to recommend this class to others, would you please do two things for me? Firstly, answer yes, that you do recommend the class, and secondly, write even in just a few words why you enjoyed it. Your recommendations will help other students to say that this is a course that they might like to take. If you see the "Follow" link on the screen, click it and you'll be alerted when a new class is released. If you'd like to leave me a comment or a question, please do so. I read and respond to all of your questions and comments, and I look at and review all of your class projects. My name's Helen Bradley. Thank you so much for joining me for this episode of Graphic Design for Lunch, and I'll look forward to seeing you in another class here on Skillshare very soon.