Can someone please move this if it doesn't seem to be in the right place. (Also, I don't know if this tutorial has already been done, so if someone has already written this, can you delete this and my apologies to someone who wrote this before I did). I thought it goes in here because it adds an effect to a photo (hence a photo effect! :P lol ).
And thanks to conspired for showing me how he did something like this.
So here goes my 2nd tutorial *clap**clap*:
Ok so if you want to have a square pattern effect (like in my signature) then you came to the right tutorial!
1. File > New..., Start with a new 6px*6px document (yes I know small).
2. Click on the http://img188.exs.cx/img188/8354/magni9au.jpg icon (the magnification tool)
3. Keep clicking into the middle of the small image until you zoom all the way.
4. Now click on the http://img188.exs.cx/img188/3635/pencil2hm.jpg icon (the Pencil Tool) and on the left and bottom sides, and make pencil marks every other pixel, so it should look like:
http://img188.exs.cx/img188/6970/pattern4vr.jpg
5. Then click on the icon (Rectangular Marquee Tool) and select the whole image, then go to Edit > Define Pattern
6. Then open the document you want to add the square effect to and go to Edit > Fill. Select Pattern in the Contents dropbox and use 30%-50% opacity. Click Ok.
Settings should look like:
http://img126.exs.cx/img126/4195/dialogbox3pk.jpg
7. Now lower the opacity on the layer to 5%-20% and it should look something like:
http://img194.exs.cx/img194/3097/sig8az.jpg
Except the boxes shouldn't be that big, that image I used 10px*10px, and of course no one used my same sig :P .
Hope this helps!
Derek
