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Got to ask...
How do you rotate an image that isn't sqare? I can right click and go to Layers --> rotate 90 degrees but it chops off the top and bottom.
beats me, but i dunnow how you managed to do that (i'm thinking you had a white block and black block and just made it more opaque) because to make a fill pattern you have to store the pattern as a .PAT and .PAT's do NOT allow transparency. so i think its fair to say thats impossible.
I've got the source file at home, so I'll take a look and see if I can remember how I did it. You might be right, I think I did the checkboard as a layer and just made the top image a bit opaque to allow the background to show through... similar effect, but not exactly what you were speaking of.
yeah, i've done that. what i may end up having to do is adjusting manually the pattern's backgroudn color to match whatever color my project is. not a huge issue but slightyl tedious.
Originally posted by Blinker_Fluid
Got to ask...
How do you rotate an image that isn't sqare? I can right click and go to Layers --> rotate 90 degrees but it chops off the top and bottom.
You can just do a shift+T and that will open the transform dialog box, and you can rotate from there....as for it chopping off the top and bottom, that is the behaviour I would expect if you are just rotating the image, and not the canvas. If you want to rotate the canvas you just right click, go to image/transform/rotate and pick the # of deg.
Originally posted by sk8guitar yeah, i've done that. what i may end up having to do is adjusting manually the pattern's backgroudn color to match whatever color my project is. not a huge issue but slightyl tedious.
OK, I went home and played around a bit....and you can control the opacity of a pattern fill by changing the tool options for the bucket. At least, I think this is what you were trying to acomplish. So you can make a pattern (or use a pre made one), select it, and then change the bucket to 30% opacity and then fill over your image/selection.
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