My 5 favourite photoshop tips for surface pattern designers

From one surface pattern designer to another here are my 5 favourite tips for Photoshop!

I wish I knew all of these when I first started designing!

My free tutorial shows you how to

1. How to change the background colour with a live view! So good for closing colours

2. How to change the colour of your motifs - including watercolour motifs like mine!

3. Smart objects! How to turn your motif into a smart object which means you can scale it up and down without losing quality - I have a mini tutorial on this

4. How to use pattern preview! Such a game changer, especially if you’re not good with numbers

5. How to duplicate motifs really easily

I would love to know of you find this tutorial helpful and what other topics you would like me to cover in upcoming free tutorials.

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