Adobe 65045315 - Photoshop Elements Use Manual page 254

USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10
Painting
Use the Pattern Stamp tool
The Pattern Stamp tool paints with a pattern defined from your image, another image, or a preset pattern.
In the Edit workspace, select the Pattern Stamp tool from the toolbox. (If you don't see it in the toolbox, select the
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Clone Stamp tool , and then click the Pattern Stamp tool icon in the options bar.)
Choose a pattern from the Pattern pop-up panel in the options bar. To load additional pattern libraries, select a
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library name from the panel menu, or choose Load Patterns and navigate to the folder where the library is stored.
You can also define your own pattern.
3 Set Pattern Stamp tool options in the options bar, as desired, and then drag within the image to paint.
You can specify any of the following Pattern Stamp tool options:
Sets the brush tip. Click the arrow next to the brush sample, choose a brush category from the Brushes pop-up
Brushes
menu, and then select a brush thumbnail.
Sets the size of the brush in pixels. Drag the Size pop-up slider or enter a size in the text box.
Size
Specifies how the paint that you apply blends with the existing pixels in the image. (See
Mode
on page 227.)
Sets the opacity of the pattern you apply. A low opacity setting allows pixels under a pattern stroke to show
Opacity
through. Drag the pop-up slider or enter an opacity value.
Repeats the pattern as a contiguous, uniform design. The pattern is aligned from one paint stroke to the next.
Aligned
If Aligned is deselected, the pattern is centered on the pointer each time you stop and resume painting.
Paints the pattern using paint daubs to create an impressionist effect.
Impressionist
More Help topics
"Fill a layer with a color or pattern" on page 246
Add a custom pattern to the pattern picker
Do one of the following:
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• To create a pattern from part of the image, make a rectangular selection with Feather set to 0 pixels.
• To create a pattern from the entire image, deselect everything.
Choose Edit > Define Pattern From Selection.
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Enter a name for the pattern in the Pattern Name dialog box.
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4 To deselect the original selection, choose Select > Deselect.
More Help topics
"About selections" on page 93
Use a preset pattern from the PostScript Patterns folder
Each preset file in the PostScript Patterns folder contains a single pattern in the Adobe Illustrator format. You can scale
these patterns at any resolution.
Choose File > Open.
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2 Navigate to Photoshop Elements 10.0/Presets/Patterns/PostScript Patterns.
Select the pattern file you want to use, and click Open.
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"About blending modes"