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Adding patterns (.pat) in Photoshop 21.0.3

Posted on March 6, 2020 by jaypoc

Searching for a quick how-to can be a difficult task in today’s fast-based multi-media society. I was looking for the procedure to add a photoshop pattern (.PAT file) I had downloaded, and all I could find were videos explaining how to do it.

So, for those of you searching for the same, here is how you do it in Windows. Mac will have some variations, but should be similar.

Open the Patterns window in Photoshop.

To enable the Patterns toolbox, click on Window > Patterns

Click on the “Hamburger Menu” (That’s the horizontal lines at the top right of the window) and select “Import Patterns”. This will open a file selection window starting in your Patterns folder. This is the folder where you want to save your .PAT files.

The file location on the PC is:
C:\Users\<User-Name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2020\Presets\Patterns

Once you’ve copied the file there, it will appear in this dialog window. Select it and click “Load”.

That’s it! You can now use the new pattern in your project(s)

Photographing Cosplayers

Posted on March 11, 2015 by jaypoc

I’ve been attending Science Fiction and other genre conventions for about 20 years. For half of that time, I’ve been engulfed in photography as a hobby. I am constantly striving to improve my work, but I will agree that the quality of my photos are pretty good. You can learn the technical stuff in school and through research. Yes, you should understand the rule of thirds and a bit of color theory, but one thing that will improve your photography is to make a connection with your model. It sounds cliche, as this theme is constantly repeated when learning portraiture, but it holds true every time. Continue reading →

How To Send Large Files To Clients

Posted on February 20, 2015 by jaypoc

As a photographer who runs a regular portrait workshop, I frequently have to send high resolution photos to multiple models. The images can exceed 10 megabytes each. Since some email services have limits of how much space the attachments can take up, I generally try to keep below 20 MB per email. If I have to send out 30 images, this could require up to 30 individual emails. This is why I use Google Drive to send the emails. There’s also quite a few additional services that allow you to share large files. I’ll list them at the end of this post, but I wanted to share how I use Google Drive to send models downloadable galleries of their images.

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