Screen Shots

When one wants to upload images to the internet, the original size of the image when used in photoshop is not suitable. Therefore, screen shots are paramount to make the image size small enough to upload to the internet.

I screen shotted my work by pressing Command>shift>4 then select the part of the screen you want to screen shot.

Block Repeat Pattern

Firstly, I opened one of my cropped images and checked the size of my image was 5cm x 5cm with a 150dpi resolution.

I then selected all of my image by pressing select > Select All.

Thirdly, I gave my pattern a title by going to Edit > Define Pattern (e.g Design 2).

Following on from this I changed the size of my canvas (page) to make it the size of an A4 piece of paper, by pressing Image > Canvas Size and entered a width of 20cm x 25cm > OK.

Then I filled the canvas with several repeated blocks of my pattern by going to Edit > Fill with Pattern > (my chosen pattern e.g design 2) and then i had a full canvas of several blocks of my chosen pattern repeated, a block repeat pattern.

Mirror Repeat Patterns

Firstly, I selected the Marquee Tool from my tool box and selected Fixed Size and changed the size of the image to 5cm x 5cm. 

I then changed my canvas size by pressing Image > Canvas Size and entered a width of 25cm x 40cm > OK.

Thirdly, I selected View> Snap to Grid and selected the second column in my design. I chose to use the Snap to Grid setting as it makes selecting the column a lot more accurate. 

Finally, I flipped the image horizontally or vertically to create a mirror effect by going to Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal, and repeated this on all columns in my design to create a mirrored effect of the whole image.