From the course: Photoshop for Fashion: Warping Pattern Fills

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Turning a scanned swatch into a pattern, part 2

Turning a scanned swatch into a pattern, part 2 - Photoshop Tutorial

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Turning a scanned swatch into a pattern, part 2

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- [Instructor] The same process works for plaids. And I scanned one in that's really wonky so I can show you a few more tricks. So, first I need to change the background layer to Layer 0. I'm gonna turn on my rulers and drag out some guides. So, I always start that way so that I can get this basically straight. And we'll drag out a couple in this direction as well. There we go. So, first thing I need to do is rotate this a little bit. So, Command + T, and I'll go ahead and rotate this a tiny bit. And then Right Click, Skew. And we'll go ahead and try to skew this up. And we need to skew it over a little bit. And the other thing that we can do is Warp. That helps curve things a little bit. So, I can pull this down, pull some other things up. I've done about as much as I can do right now using the Transform menu, but it's still not perfect. So, what I'm gonna do is go into Liquify in order to do a little more tweaking. The problem with Liquify is I won't be able to see my guides, so I'm…

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