Pattern Design in Photoshop: Quick, Easy, and Automatic


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These powerful features let you do pattern design as never before. With SymmetryShop, you are more productive and creative. And the once painstaking job is fun.

All standard symmetry types

Generate a ready stream of design solutions by simply clicking the colorful symmetry buttons. There are exactly seventeen types of symmetry that can be used to create a pattern, all available to you in the SymmetryShop palette.

One-click creation of popular repeats

Create many popular repeats with just one click. Simply choose drop, brick, diamond, gradation, scale, spot, grid, and other repeat types from the Layout list. Then quickly customize the built-in layouts. Even create a variety of special effects, such as optical effects.

Interlocking design elements

Select a part of the image as a "seed" (motif) and easily build organic, interlocking patterns by letting your design elements overlap. Or clip repeating units and create kaleidoscopic patterns.

Smoothed-away boundaries

Easily control the amount of overlap of the neighboring units and smooth the boundaries away by applying the feather effect.

Quick export as Photoshop pattern fills (presets)

Instantly export your finished design—or any number of intermediate snapshots—as Photoshop pattern fills. The plug-in adds your pattern to Photoshop presets and makes it available to the paint bucket, pattern stamp, healing brush, and other tools, as well as to the Layer Style dialog.

Surface patterns and borders

Create just one tile, a border, or a surface pattern. You have full control over exactly how many repeating units the plug-in makes for you.

Interactive editing in Photoshop

Edit your motif with the usual Photoshop tools or change the repeat size of your pattern directly in Photoshop and quickly rebuild the pattern, even without bringing up the SymmetryShop palette. The plug-in fully automates your work.

Unlimited iterations and refinement in multiple Photoshop sessions

Easily change parameters and tweak the design when your customer requests a modification. Because the plug-in automatically saves everything it needs to rebuild your pattern, you simply open your old SymmetryShop file and pick up right where you finished!