Where to find patterns in photoshop

Define an image as a preset pattern. Use the Rectangle Marquee tool on any open image to select an area to use as a pattern. Feather must be set to 0 pixels. Note that large images may become unwieldy. Enter a name for the pattern in the Pattern Name dialog box. More like this Create repeating patterns with Pattern Preview Create and use tool presets Manage pattern libraries and presets.

Sign in to your account. In fact, only a few of Photoshop's new patterns and shapes are available to us by default. Most are hidden, including hundreds of new shapes just waiting to be found.

I'll show you where to find them and how to load them so you'll have access to every gradient, pattern and shape that's included with Photoshop! To follow along, you'll need Photoshop or later. I'm using Photoshop and these steps will most likely apply to future versions as well.

Download this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! To load more gradients, patterns or shapes into Photoshop, you don't need to have an image or a document open.

But you do need to be in Photoshop's main interface rather than on the Home Screen. If you have opened Photoshop without opening an image, or you have closed your document and have no other documents open, you'll be taken to the Home Screen as we see here:. To switch from the Home Screen to the main interface, click the Photoshop icon in the top left corner:. And now we're in the main workspace with the panels along the right.

We'll need some of these panels to load our gradients, patterns and shapes:. Let's start by loading Photoshop's missing gradients. All of the new gradients that were added back in Photoshop are available to us by default. But the classic or legacy gradients from previous versions are hidden. So here's how to load them. First, open the Gradients panel. You'll find it in the same panel group as the Color, Swatches and Patterns panels:.

If you are not seeing the Gradients panel, you can open it by going up to the Window menu in the Menu Bar and choosing Gradients. But if a checkmark appears next to its name, it means that the panel is already open and selecting it from the menu will close it:. In the Gradients panel, the gradients are divided into groups based on theme Basics, Blues, Purples, and so on. And all of these groups are new as of Photoshop To open a group and view the gradients inside it, click the arrow next to its folder icon:.

Return to the default library of patterns. Choose Restore Default Patterns from the pop-up menu in the Patterns panel. Rename a preset pattern. Select the pattern you want to rename, and choose Rename Pattern from the Patterns panel menu. Enter a new name for the pattern, and click OK. Delete a preset pattern. Select the pattern you want to delete, and choose Delete Pattern from the Patterns panel menu.

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