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Patterns, patterns, patterns.
If you're interested in painting tiled patterns
or you create patterns for projects
then this demo is for you.
It's a little known secret
inside of Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended.
So this is for Extended users only.
This is a great capability for instantly making patterns.
And of course since this is the Russell Brown Show
you'll want to be placing those patterns
on a dinosaur.
That's right.
We want to paint a pattern on a dinosaur.
Whatever!
You know, how many times do you paint
a pattern on a dinosaur?
I do, at least once a day.
But, of course, my pattern that I'm going to create
is more than just a pattern for dinosaurs.
It's a pattern for tiling on web pages
or any project you're working on.
Okay, let's get started.
Here I have a blank page.
That's a good way to start a project.
A blank page.
It's a normal page.
Check it out, it's just a background.
Here's the secret.
Don't tell anyone. (whispering)
Under the 3D menu, go down to
New Tiled Painting.
You select it, here under the 3D menu
in Adobe Photoshop SC4 Extended
and nothing happens!
Of course it does.
It turned it into a 3D object.
And when you're working on 3D objects
many times you want to have tiled painting
over the surface, like a spaceship.
You may want to paint over the 3D spaceship
with rust and tarnish over the spaceship
or laser blasts that you want to have repeat
over the ship.
So many times you'll need 3D painting capabilities.
So here I'm going to bring in a green brush
notice I have my Brush tool selected
I've turned it into a 3D pattern.
I'm going to click once.
Check it out.
I click once and it instantly makes a pattern.
And I can paint in this pattern.
I can change my brush size
and start to paint different shapes and sizes
and in this case I'm going to have sort of a
Dalmatian-looking dinosaur.
So I'm going to go through here and paint.
I can continue to paint all these different shapes
and patterns, just like this.
I can clone into this space.
I can use different brush types.
I can use airbrush.
I can paste things in as well to create a pattern.
But just for this project
I'm just going to paint one just like this.
Then, let's do a Select All
Command A on the Macintosh
or Control A on the PC
and then from the Edit menu
of course we can define the pattern.
Now in the past you'd have to
do all sorts of crazy things to create a tiling pattern
but this tiles it automatically for you.
Let's click OK.
We have a tile pattern.
We go to the dinosaur.
Oh what better?
And now we can paint on the dinosaur
of course with the tiled pattern.
I'm clicking my Clone Pattern, excuse me
my Pattern Stamp tool here
by clicking and holding on this tool
in the tool panel.
And then I can increase my brush size
with my, in this case
my closed bracket on my keyboard
is another great tip and technique
for increasing the size of this brush.
And I need to fill this brush with the pattern
that I just created.
Going here to the Fly Out menu
from the Options bar
I can click on that pattern.
You see that right there?
I want it to align with the image 100%.
But do you know what?
I'm going to do this as a multiply.
I'm going to multiply this pattern
over the surface.
Because remember, I painted the pattern
against white and I don't want to paint with white.
I want to paint with the dots.
So multiply will sandwich the two together.
It will make white transparent
and just give me my green spots on my dinosaur.
But here's another superuser tip and technique.
Before you start painting
under the 3D menu
down here to Paint Falloff
You've been wondering what this is all about, too.
Under Paint Falloff, Paint Falloff determines
how the paint will fall off around a 3D object.
Let's say you have a sphere.
And you're painting.
How will the paint bend around the 3D sphere?
In this case there's going to be a cut off point
at forty-five degrees around the sphere.
But I don't want that.
Because there're so many different crevices
and different areas of this dinosaur
I want to adjust this.
Watch this carefully.
I'm adjusting my maximum angle to 90
and I'm adjusting my minimum angle to 90.
So I want a full radius.
I want to go all the way around to the edges
of that imaginary sphere.
Imagine that.
It's going to go all the way around and paint
around the sphere.
We click OK, and now I can start to paint
on my dinosaur.
Check it out.
There's my pattern coming in on my dinosaur
as I'm painting on a 3D object
here in CS4 Extended.
I paint that in and of course you can use
your 3D tools.
In this case I'm going to use my 3D Rotate tool.
I can rotate my dinosaur around.
Isn't that cool or what?
Get my Pattern tool and continue painting
the pattern on the other side.
Wow.
I can do that with a spaceship, too. (speaking in high-pitched voice)
But wait, just to finish this one all off
notice over here in my textures
in any 3D object you can double click on a texture
and you can actually see the pattern
that I'm painting here on the dinosaur's skin here.
And you can continue to paint right here
on the dinosaur's skin
and of course this is the image
which is being laid over the skeleton
of the 3D object
and if I paint on this
I close this down
then I save it.
It saves that back onto the 3D object.
So fantastic.
You've just seen a simple and easy way
to create tiling patterns.
In fact paint them and then apply them to your web page
or your 3D dinosaur
because this is the Russell Brown Show.
Until next time, keep on painting those patterns.
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