Hi all!  Can someone tell me how to take a jpg image and turn it into a PAT file to put into my patterns overlay preset?  Can this even be done?  Thanks!!!

Edit>Define Pattern…>give it a name.

Thanks Swamp!!!!

You’re very welcome.

Or you can do a batch of them and put more than one in a pattern file. Just go to File>Automate>Batch and fill in the fields to tell Photoshop where to look for the folder. OOPs! You need to make an action that will run to get this done. Just create a new action and do one graphic. Then you use that action in the automate dialog to process a whole folder at once. It's so fast!

Another thing I just discovered is a bug fix in CS2 that used ot drive me crazy in P7. To save or delete the patterns or any other preset, I used to have to shift-click on every single pattern or preset. What a drag when you have a 100. But now in CS you can hit the first and then shift or ctr., (forgotten which) and all are selected. Thank you Adobe!!!!! A great time saver and sense of humour saver when you're making pats of all your texture files.