Hello, I'm Helen Bradley.
Welcome to this video tutorial.
In this tutorial we're going to have a look at advanced pattern fills and this is Part
3 of a series on scripted pattern fills in Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop CC.
Now you might be coming to this video from Parts 1 and 2 or you may be coming afresh
to Part 3.
If you're coming afresh this is the kind of effect that we're looking for here.
These are patterns that are created and applied using the new tool in Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop
CC.
But this is a tool that has been written by another user that allows you to customize
the basic patterns that are available inside Photoshop so it's a script that you download
and use.
So the first thing that you're going to need to do is to go to this website and I'll give
you the URL of the website in the description for this video.
So you're going to go down here and download the scripted fill UI.
And that just downloads a zip file that you will then open.
So let's have a lot at what we're going to get.
When we open the zip file there's a Read Me PDF and a JSX file.
You'll want to extract all those files.
And then you'll obviously want to open the Read Me.
You'll want to grab this JSX file and copy it.
And you're going to take it to your Photoshop Presets folder.
So for my machine, it's a Windows machine and I'm using Photoshop CS6 64 bit.
So I'm going into Program Files, Adobe, Adobe Photoshop CS6 64 bit and then I'm going to
my Presets and I'm going to Scripts.
And I'm going to drop it in here.
Here it is already, Scripted Fill.
So I've just already added that.
This is all that this tool needs is just one script and then you can open and read the
PDF file.
I'm just going to show that to you briefly.
It is a PDF file with a number of pages and the person who wrote it is just describing
what the tool is going to do.
And essentially what it does is that it gives you customizable features for the built in
scripts that come with Photoshop such as the Spiral, the Cross Weave, the Brick, the Random
and the Random Border.
So there's Random and here's Random Border.
It also gives you another one, a Symmetry one which has all the sorts of symmetries
that we looked at in Part 2 of this video series.
The problem is I haven't been able to get this to run because it crashes every time
with a line problem in the script file so you may have better luck than I have had with
that.
But I haven't had any luck at all.
That said the others seemed to work just fine.
So let's see how we would actually use this.
I'm going to start by creating a brand new file that we're going to use to fill it with
our pattern.
If you haven't previously created any patterns then let's go and see how we would do this.
Now I'm just going to open an image of a flower.
Actually, I already have it open here so let's just go and grab it.
Here it is.
Now this should have a clipping path already in it because I did that earlier.
So let's just go and load its clipping path and let's just mask that out.
And it doesn't look like it's the world's greatest clipping mask but let's not worry
too much about that.
Now I'm going to press Ctrl or Command E and I'm going to apply the mask.
So this gives me now the flower that I can use as a pattern.
To do that I'll choose Edit and then Define Pattern.
I'm going to call this orange flower and click Ok and now I can discard that image.
Now let's see how we can use this new scripting tool.
We're going to start by adding a new layer because these tend to work better on new layers
than they do on the background layer.
And again, because this is a script we're going to run it through file scripts, not
through the edit fill.
And we'll choose Scripted Fill UI.
And this is a user interface for our scripted fill.
So we're going to choose Random Border because that sounds like a good place to start.
I'm going to make a square random border and I can set the density.
Let's do that to about 8.
I can use a calculated density or an exact number and I can scale the flower.
So the last time I used this I didn't scale the flowers at all so they're actually the
fixed size and I didn't use any rotation.
But let's just randomly rotate these.
And then I can set color and brightness.
Now I set color jitter to zero so that they wouldn't be differently colored but we can
do something with them.
So let's do 2.25 because that's a small jitter.
And let's do a small brightness jitter of .15.
We can also set the number of passes that we want so let's do two passes and we'll do
a starting seed and we're going to add a new layer for each pass.
So this will give us two borders all at once.
And there are other tools that you can use here.
Essentially what this is doing is putting a user interface on top of the existing feature
so that you can get more out of it.
So I'm going to click Ok and then we just get this fill dialog.
Now the only thing you need to do at this point is go and get your pattern.
So we're going to get our pattern, which is the last one in the dialog here, and we don't
do anything else.
Do not change this.
It's supposed to be this.
It's there for a good reason.
And so I'll click Ok.
And there's our first border effect.
You can see that we didn't quite get a closed border.
If we did more next time, we would probably get more so let's go and do a different border.
Because these are on new layers I can do a second border with another flower that I have
saved as a pattern.
Ok, let's turn this one off.
You can see that we're not quite getting it filled up so we may want to add some more
in the script but you can see that we're getting pink flowers and blue flowers.
We're getting some variation of brightness and color happening here.
And again, here too a variation of brightness and color.
If we don't want that variation of brightness and color let's go and see what we would do.
Back into the Script tool.
We're in the Random Border.
This time let's make our density 12 again and see if that will give us what we want
and color and brightness jitters we're going to turn those off.
So there will now be no variety in color or brightness.
Passes let's do three because I've got another set of flowers that I could use, and just
click Ok.
And again, all we're interested in here is selecting the pattern to use.
And here's the first random border nearly filled in this time so 12 is pretty near a
good setting.
And again, no change in color or brightness because we asked for that to be the case.
Here's our pink one, not quite filled in and here's our blue one.
Again, the blue one is filled a little bit better.
The pink one not quite.
The orange one not quite.
But as you can see we've got a lot of flexibility and we can go back and adjust these at any
time.
All we need to do is to run this script again and we can increase the number, the density,
so that we have a better density for example.
We can also use other tools so we could adjust the spiral for example.
I have not done this so let's just run with this.
Let's do a 90-degree pattern rotation and an angle factor of hum, let's do it as .75
and see what we get.
And I'll click Ok.
Let's choose the pink flower for this.
And, oh, we're going to do three.
So we can do three different flowers.
Each one of these is going to be on its own layer.
So let's see what that gave us.
This is one of the spirals, obviously not anywhere
near as nice a spiral as we were getting before.
It's really a bit more random.
And here's another one.
But you can adjust the settings.
You can save the settings if you want.
You can create round borders, square borders and you get a lot more control over the basic
interface which Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop CC give you.
So let's have a look.
Let's go to an empty layer.
This is the tool that you get with Photoshop Pattern and all you get to choose from are
a number of scripts.
There's no ability to make any special settings for example for this spiral.
You get what you get.
This is a spiral and that's the only customization that you have.
If we go and do a spiral using the script then we get other features that we can select.
So we can go and do our spiral and we could apply different settings to it.
So there's Part 3 of our scripted pattern fills in Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop CC.
I'm Helen Bradley.
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