[jabber]

I was wondering if anyone has encounterd a tutorial or something on using patterns from one image, and placing them on another. I remember I saw something like this of a japanese comono i think, but of course failed to book mark it. damnit.

any help would be grand.

[Ian Jones]

If you are using photoshop, just make a selection of the area you want to be a pattern, then goto the edit menu > define pattern > now when you use the paint bucket fill, select 'pattern' from the floating options pallete.

Hope thats what you wanted..

[Jin]

Hi,

In Painter, you can make a selection of the area you want to use as a Pattern and, in the Art Materials palette's Patterns section menu, choose Define Pattern. This temporarily makes the selected area a Pattern that can be used to Fill, paint with any of Painter's Pattern Pens brush variants, used as the source for painting texture, or used to Fill or paint on a perspective plane.

If you want to keep this selection as a pattern to use later, instead of choosing Define Pattern, choose Capture Pattern then give it a unique name not already used by Painter. It's now included in the current Pattern library.

You can also hold down the Shift key, and use the Grabber tool to move the Pattern tile to see its edges, then paint to remove the visible edges and make the tile seamless.

Any image, including a Pattern, can also be captured as a Paper texture in Painter.

What software are you using, by the way?

[jabber]

well, those are close... I'm using photoshop for this and tried the above, but its not quite right.

the tutorial i saw before had to deal with masking i think, and the pattern actually 'wrapped' around the drawing in a way. I have never really used masking, (im not sure why) but I think thats how it might have been done.


thanks for your help

[LoTekK]

if you want to "wrap" a pattern onto a 3d object, you're going to want to use one or a combination of blending modes... overlay, multiply, screen, softlight, and hardlight...

this way the shading and highlights from the original pic will be left intact, giving the illusion that the pattern is a part of the 3d object...

hope this helps...

btw, when i find the link to that tutorial you were talking about (i just saw that last night, actually, but i don't have the link handy), i'll post it...

[Hunago]

http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/displacement/displacement.htm

Don't know whether this is the one you are looking for, it's using displacement maps to map a kimono pattern.

I think what LoteKK said is also quite true, could combine both methods.

[jabber]

sweet, as per usuall u guys rock.

thanks, thats the tutorial i was looking for!

[Ian Jones]

Aaahh, I get it now. Your description was misleading. I know what the 'Komono' is now... hehe. I as looking at that PolyKarbon tutorial just last week!