Making a Polka Dot Pattern, video

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Making a Polka Dot Pattern, video

This video tutorial will show you how to make 2 kinds of polka dot patterns in Photoshop.

EDIT: After making this tutorial, an easier method was pointed out to me, so you can check that out too.

Great tutorial! I never imagine it was so easy.

I enjoyed your video. Easy to understand - your teaching skills are showing! I prefer the alternating polka dots, they are always so pretty with anything.

@Sunny: haha! shhh, don't tell my mom (both my parents are life long educators).

Hi Marisa,

Not to rain on your parade, but i found a tutorial a while ago which explained an even faster way to arrange your dots... using the offset filter. If your interested, take a look: http://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/repeating-patterns-intro/

Oh, and btw, this makes it unnecessary to find the exact middle (or quarter) of your polka dot! Heaven!

Well, that looks really excellent! Now I don't have to do all the complicated arithmetic! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the great tutorial (and the link to the 'easier' method too) - I'll try them out and see which one my brain prefers smiley

I discovered I had an offset option in PSP last night. I have been doing this the long way for forever. I made a really cute paper last night (I think it's cute lol). I don't know how to openly share it, but I can post it here I think.

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Cool! Thanks for sharing!

@Renee That is really cute! Thank you for sharing!

It IS really cute~! Thanks for sharing indeed

Dear Melouise,

Thank you so much for the link! I have just managed to create my first "thing" in Photoshop Elements. smiley Probably not worth an Oscar but I am so proud lol...There are plenty of tutorials on that side and for me as a super newbie its great that experts like you share their knowledge! So big thank you from Spain! smiley

Marisa,
Thank you!
I was much more complicated. You do not know how to help me.
Greetings!

Marcela

wow fab neded that help xxx

I wonder if anyone knew how to make the offset filter behave itself. Sometimes I have to try several times to get it to work correctly and I don't know what I am doing wrong!

Amazing!! this help me so much, thanks!

Thank you for the tutorial and for the Link

This is amazing and really the fastest way to create polkadot pattern smiley I used to use ruler and it's quite take time to create it. Thanks for this, Marisa. Really appreciate it! smiley