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Creating and applying custom pattern fill layers

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Creating and applying custom pattern fill layers

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- [Instructor] Pattern fill layers are an excellent way to fill areas with seamless tiled patterns. In this example, we're going to create our pattern from a photo of some peppers. Save it as a custom pattern and then fill the inside of this box cover with that pattern. Starting with the red peppers, you'll notice that in the layers panel, all of the layers have been converted to smart objects, and that's just because when we create our pattern fill, it's going to want to work with smart objects. I'll choose the view menu and then select pattern preview. We can see that it's telling us that it wants to work with smart objects. And then I'm going to use the command minus key to zoom out. So the square in the center, this blue square, is going to define the pattern, but we can select any of the different layers in order to reposition them. So with the move tool selected, all enable auto select, and then we can start…

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