How To Use Photoshop To Draw Weave Tie Dye

In this earlier mail service I showed how to create a tartan plaid pattern in Photoshop. That method simulates the weave feature of a real tartan plaid, with the singled-out diagonal twill pattern, similar the one shown here.

As an culling, here's a really quick way to create a seamless plaid in Photoshop Elements. This technique doesn't create the issue of the diagonal twill weave, merely does create a prissy repeating plaid pattern. The same method works for creating seamless plaids in Adobe Illustrator (details below).

Here are the steps for creating the plaid in Photoshop Elements

Footstep i. To start, I'll create the vertical stripes which stand for to the warp if this were a woven plaid. In Photoshop Elements, create a new file of the size you desire for your repeating design. This should be a square file. In this example I'm using a 5 inch by five inch file size. So, using the rectangle tool, depict a vertical rectangle and make full information technology with the color of your pick.

Step 2. Go along drawing rectangles until you've filled the space. Ordinarily each stripe volition finish upward on its own layer. When you're done drawing the stripes, put them all together in one layer with the command: Layer ==> Flatten Prototype.

Stride iii. In the layers window (shown beneath on the lower right of the screen), right click on the layer and select "Duplicate layer" from the menu.

Step iv. This brings up a small window (shown here). Click the OK button to create the duplicate layer.

Step 5. Now at that place are 2 layers in your file. Making sure that the tiptop layer is active in the layer window (run into picture below), go to the menu and select: Image ==> Rotate ==> Layer 90 Left.

Step six. Now the stripes in the top layer are horizontal. With the top layer still agile, change its opacity to 50%. You can do this either by typing in 50, or using the slider from the drop-down (come across the picture below). Now you tin can come across what your plaid design will look like.

Step 7. To save your plaid as a seamless fill you can employ in other projects, first combine the two layers past selecting: Layer ==> Merge Visible from the menu. Finally, salvage the pattern by selecting: Edit ==> Define Pattern from the carte du jour and so giving the pattern a proper noun in the pop-upwards box.

This plaid pattern is now a seamless pattern that you tin can utilize to fill objects or layers in any Photoshop project.

Here is a comparison of the ii different methods for creating plaids, starting with the exact same stripes.

An example of using the plaid blueprint as a fill up:

Here are the steps for creating the plaid in Illustrator

Step 1. Showtime past creating a new foursquare document in Illustrator. The size isn't important, but the length and width should be the aforementioned.

Step 2. Using the rectangle tool, create vertical stripes, filling the artboard space.

Step iii. Select all the objects (Select ==> All) and group them (Object ==> Grouping). Then brand a indistinguishable (Edit ==> Re-create so Edit ==> Paste.)

Pace iv. Select the new group of stripes and rotate information technology 90 degrees to get horizontal stripes (Object ==> Transform ==> Rotate, and set the angle to ninety). Make sure the horizontal stripes fully cover the artboard.

Stride 5. In the Layers window (see below) make sure the top group is agile and so fix its opacity to 50 percentage. The plaid pattern appears.

Pace half-dozen. To make this a echo swatch, draw a square (with no fill) that is the aforementioned size as your artboard. Move the square to the bottom of the layer (Object ==> Suit ==> Transport to Back). Select all the items — horizontal and vertical stripes and the foursquare — and from the menu cull Edit ==> Define Design and then give it a proper noun in the pop-up box. Information technology volition now be in your swatches, set for apply (every bit shown on the right).