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Photoshop: Rotatable pattern fills
Hello.I'm a 3D Artist in the games industry. I like to use patterns alot for texture overlays and such. I love the ability to pan the pattern, or just swap out the pattern for a new one and keep the same mask when somethings not working (I love masks too).One qwirk however, theres no ability to rotate them without collapsing the pattern fill to a layer and doing it manually. Breaking my non-destructive workflow and ruining what i love about patterns. I am sure it wouldn't be too hard a feature to add, seeing as the gradient fill layer already has an rotation/angle implemented. This would save time and also keep my PSD's nice and tidy.I made a handy little gif that switches between pattern fill currently, and what would be desireable.Thanks.Chevy McGoram 

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razmikm
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10 years ago
Is it possible to manage so we could rotate patterns? It comes in pretty handy sometimes.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Photoshop: let us rotate patterns.
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kimyoonmi
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9 years ago
Probably best if the rotation resets upon clicking a new one?
It's easier than making a new preset for every rotation.
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Pattern Rotation.
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razmikm
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9 years ago
Let's see...
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chris_cox_2148894
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9 years ago
But I need justification for management: why is this important, how much time does it really save, what market segments need this functionality, etc. ?
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christoph_pfaffenbichler
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razmikm
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9 years ago
Hey guys, this is the type of work that I do, I think it's a little more complex...
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peter_coe_3877337
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9 years ago
On the same topic, it would be great to be able to manually align Pattern Fills, at least in Layer Effects. Snap to Origin is too vague to be flexible.
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Pattern Fill Improvement.
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noel_perlado
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9 years ago
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Photoshop: Ability to rotate patterns by arbitrary angle in Pattern Overlay.
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giuseppe_franceschini
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9 years ago
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Pattern & on/off.
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annie_73331
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powalowski
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9 years ago
Is there any way of editing patterns added to photoshop? If yes, this would give a quick workaround for the problem.
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giuseppe_franceschini
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powalowski
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9 years ago
I think any screendesigner would benefit from that feature. I often use pattern fills for websites and UI in general.
It really would save me and hopefully dozens of designers out there a lot of precious time i think.
My Workaround: Filling a big shape with a fill of 0% with a pattern (100%, normal blending) -> converting it to a Smart Object -> Using Smart Object as Clipping mask on the Element I want to be filled with rotated pattern -> choosing angle and blendig mode for Smart Object
A mess, right?
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franck_payen
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9 years ago
Think about fashion garnments where you'd make selection, and rotate sleeves, collars, legs different angles, and may be try different patterns, so, not recreating them everytime, more dynamic !
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Rotating pattern layers.
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scott_w1
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9 years ago
For many things where a user wants a pattern fill layer style the only workaround is to create a new pattern at the desired angle.
For shapes it's easy enough to just dup a layer, apply the pattern fill, rotate the layer, then mask. But when applying a pattern fill to things like text (which will undoubtedly change later) multiple layers can be cumbersome to manage and re-mask should changes occur in the text.
The ability to simply set the angle of a pattern would not only cut down on the necessity to manage multiple layers with associated masks, but would also cut down on the amount of patterns needed to accomplish a given task. A user could have a straight, single pixel, vertical pattern then be able to use that one pattern tile for any single row pattern they wanted whether at 45°, 90°, 30° or whatever.
Since this is regarding pattern fills... I'd also love smart object patterns. Double click a pattern swatch and it opens in Illustrator for adjustment. I know, probably left field... but you never know until you say something ;)
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