6.0 Pattern Stamp Tool
Used for copying
image data, and painting with it
Found at # 5 in the Toolbar diagram at left
Find the pattern stamp by clicking, and holding down the mouse button
on the clone stamp tool icon (formerly
known as the rubber stamp). Choose the pattern stamp from the pop-up menu
that appears.
You can use the preset patterns found in the tool's options bar, or you can create your own pattern. To do so, you must first make a rectangular selection and define it as a pattern. With the rectangular marquee tool, select an area in any open image to use as the pattern. Note that the selection [pattern] source image, and destination image must be in the same color mode. With the selection active, choose Edit > Define Pattern. Your new pattern will appear in the pattern pop-up menu in the tool's options bar.
Dragging in the image with this tool will paint a repeating copy of the selected pattern.
If you choose Edit > Fade immediately after using this tool, you can change the opacity and blend mode of the pattern you have just applied.
The keyboard shortcut for the stamp tools is the letter S. Press the Shift key with the shortcut letter to toggle to the desired stamp.
The illustration below is the pattern stamp tool's options bar. To choose a brush size, and type, click on the little down arrow to the right of the brush thumbnail. A pop-up palette of available brushes will appear. For more information on brushes, please see the Brushes page.
The box titled Mode, and showing Normal is a drop down menu of all the blend modes that can be used when applying, or stamping the copied image. The Aligned feature is too hard to explain for the pattern stamp; try it both ways and see for yourself.
Opacity determines the transparency, if any, of the stamped pattern. A higher value is more opaque; a lower value is more transparent. You can set this with a slider, accessed by clicking the little arrow to the right of the percentage value.
Clicking on the little down arrow next to the blue pattern thumbnail on the options bar will open the preset patterns pop-up palette, shown in the second row, below, on the left. Any patterns that you create will also appear in this palette.
Beside the palette is its options menu, found by clicking on the little arrow in the top right corner of the patterns palette. There is another patterns palette that you can try, Patterns2, listed at the bottom of that menu.
If you have doodled with a tool's options and want to get back to the default settings, click that tool's icon at the far left end of its options bar. Choose either Reset Tool to reset only the current tool, or Reset All Tools to restore default settings to every tool.
Please note that all descriptions, and illustrations featured refer to files which are in Photoshop's .psd format, and which are in RGB color mode. Other file formats, and color modes may generate different options. Some Photoshop features are not available for images not in .psd format, or RGB color mode. To find what color mode your image is in, choose Image > Mode.
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