Thursday,
January 8, 2015
Now that I have created my first simple pattern (it was simple to make, but it doesn't look simple), I would like to show you something you can do with it. Remember my patterned bird and fish pieces? (See my blog postings from November and December 2014.) I started with black and white line drawings, and I used the paint bucket tool in Photoshop Elements to fill, or 'color', the spaces with patterns. Since I am now creating my own patterns that I know will repeat seamlessly, I will be using them moving forward as I create new pieces.
Now that I have created my first simple pattern (it was simple to make, but it doesn't look simple), I would like to show you something you can do with it. Remember my patterned bird and fish pieces? (See my blog postings from November and December 2014.) I started with black and white line drawings, and I used the paint bucket tool in Photoshop Elements to fill, or 'color', the spaces with patterns. Since I am now creating my own patterns that I know will repeat seamlessly, I will be using them moving forward as I create new pieces.
The
image below is just a simple swirl design that I got from a Dover book of
ornaments. This image is 6" on its
smallest side. Since my pattern is
2", I want to use an image that is large enough to show some repeats, but
not so large that the pattern appears very tiny. So once again, I used the paint bucket tool
with the pattern box checked in the options bar, selected my new pattern, and
filled in the spaces. I like how this
looks!
If
I want to use this pattern in a piece where the green and blue don't go with my
overall colorway, I can always change the colors to something that works. For the next image, I simply adjusted the
hues: Enhance -> Adjust Color -> Adjust Hue/Saturation. I adjusted the slider bar to another color combination,
and I think I like this one just as well!
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