Lucie opened this issue on Nov 06, 2010 · 8 posts
Lucie posted Sat, 06 November 2010 at 6:42 PM
I think this question has been asked before so forgive me if I ask again... Is there a way when using the pattern overlay in the layer style to rotate the pattern (example if the pattern is made of horizontal lines, rotate it so it will be diagonal)? I'm using CS3, but should receive CS5 sometimes next week so if it's not possible in CS3, is it possible in CS5?
LukeA posted Sat, 06 November 2010 at 7:14 PM
I am pretty sure the answer to this is no. What I do is fill a large canvas with the pattern and take it into the file I am working on and rotate it using the Free Transform tool. If you hold shift it will snap to set angles.
LukeA
Lucie posted Sat, 06 November 2010 at 7:41 PM
That's what I do as well, I was hoping there was an easier way. So I'm guessing it's not possible in CS5 either, right?
Right now I got a project that will end up with close to 40 layers before I merge them all and I want to apply the pattern on all of them, but not all the same angle...
mystikel posted Sun, 07 November 2010 at 6:33 AM
I know if you rasterize the pattern overlay you can, but when you rasterize the pattern it keeps the shape of it's original selection.
Lucie posted Sun, 07 November 2010 at 8:26 AM
I'm going to have to look into that, I didn't even know I could rasterize a pattern! lol It's funny because I've been working for over 10 years every freakin day with photoshop and there's still tools and stuff that I don't know what they're for... If I did maybe my life would be much easier! rofl
dreamer101 posted Sun, 07 November 2010 at 10:51 AM
Hmmmm aren't patterns raster to begin with? Patterns can be scaled but not rotated. I would define new patterns for each angle needed. When you are in Free Transform it's better to use the menu at top and enter exact angle. Shift works fine if the angles needed are in increments of 15º.
Lucie posted Sun, 07 November 2010 at 11:24 AM
If you go in Layer/new fill layer and choose pattern, then you'd need to rasterize the layer if you want to be able to make transformations (besides rescaling) to it. I think that's what Mystikel is referring to?
mystikel posted Sun, 07 November 2010 at 3:40 PM
Quote - If you go in Layer/new fill layer and choose pattern, then you'd need to rasterize the layer if you want to be able to make transformations (besides rescaling) to it. I think that's what Mystikel is referring to?
Yep, that's what I mean :D
If you right click on the pattern layer a list will pop up and simply click rasterize. :D
Kelly