PATTERNS

DIAMOND

HALF DROP 

MIRROR

OGEE

SPOT REPEAT

STRIPE 

TOSSED

BRICK 

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HOW TO MAKE A REPEATING STRIP PATTERN

1. Select the Rectangular Marquee tool and draw the line you desire.
2. Select the paint bucket tool (underneath the gradient tool) and fill the lines with the color you desire (you can do this through the picker or the color libraries)
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 until you have the variation of lines that you want (for this one I drew 1 thick blue line, 1 thin white line and 1 thin red line) 
4. Now go up into Edit --> Define pattern and define the pattern area
5. Open up a new document to desired size 
6. Select the paint bucket tool. On the options tool bar you can choose between either foreground or pattern. It will probably be set to foreground so open up the drop down menu and select pattern, then select the pattern that you just created and fill the page. It will repeat automatically. 

Select from the drop down menu your pattern 

SYMMETRICALLY REPEATING

HOW TO MAKE A SYMMETRICALLY REPEATING PATTERN

1. Go to Brushezzy.com and download any set of brushes that you want.
2. After downloading, open up a new photoshop document. 
3. Unlock the background layer and fill it with any chose color
4. Stamp the brushes on to the page, playing with them so that different visual effects are created. You can do this by Rotating, Reflecting, Using different colors, Layering and filters. 
5. When you have a graphic that you are satisfied with, Reflect it on the X and Y axis so that essentially it fulfills the page 4 times (i.e. has a mirror line on all sides of the original image) 
6. Then go up to the Edit --> define pattern and define your pattern edges. You may want to do this in a couple of different places to see how they turn out, as each one will probably be different. 
7. Open up a new document and fill the page with your pattern using the paint bucket tool. If the pattern look slightly wrong and is making your eyes go funny then it probably has track marks. In which case keep redefining the pattern until you get it right and the track marks disappear. 

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