Using Captured Patterns For Design

4/12/20

‍    Five years ago, Adobe came out with a device app (phones & tablets) called Capture. This app would turn photos into brushes, vector shapes, colors and patterns. Over the years they’ve added 3D materials, type and looks.It’s a free app — you should try it! For the patterns, you point your camera at any thing, and choose geometry; triangle, square, hexagon; and your screen will show the image as the geometry you chose. As you move the device, the pattern changes. It’s absolutely fascinating. When you find a pattern you like, you save it. If you have creative Cloud, it will save to that, but there is an option to save to your photos as well.

‍    This last December, they added a version of Capture in the latest release of Photoshop. Now you can use it to make a pattern from any file you have open. This will save to your CC library which allows you to use the captured pattern n any Adobe app that supports patterns. Cool.

‍    One of the PS Daily challenges last month was about Capture in PS using the pattern to make a fabric pattern for clothing. I made my pattern from the stock image shown below - a watercolor-look image of a whale slapping its tail in the water. Can you imagine what part of the image the pattern came from?

‍    Rather than using the white t-shirt provided, I went to PixelSquid to find denim clothing — blue on blue so to speak. I found a neat pair of jean and a couple of  jackets, and with a long sleeved tee. The PixelSquid plug-in for PS lets me rotate and tip the object to fit any scene, do I was able to show the from and back of the clothing on my pretend catalog page. 

‍    The really neat  thing is that you can scale the pattern from tiny to huge. For my design, I chose a fairly large size to make a fashion statement (I hope), and positioned them on the garments. I masked out some areas to make them fit better on the garment. I made a gradient background from the blues in the pattern, and added text for the title and descriptions.

‍    Hope this posts brightens your Easter Sunday. Perhaps it will make you wish you had this outfit ;-)

‍    Take care and stay well.