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P: Rotatable pattern fills

  • July 6, 2011
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Hello.I'm a 3D Artist in the games industry. I like to use patterns alot for texture overlays and such. I love the ability to pan the pattern, or just swap out the pattern for a new one and keep the same mask when somethings not working (I love masks too).One qwirk however, theres no ability to rotate them without collapsing the pattern fill to a layer and doing it manually. Breaking my non-destructive workflow and ruining what i love about patterns. I am sure it wouldn't be too hard a feature to add, seeing as the gradient fill layer already has an rotation/angle implemented. This would save time and also keep my PSD's nice and tidy.I made a handy little gif that switches between pattern fill currently, and what would be desireable.Thanks.Chevy McGoram

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    c.pfaffenbichler
    Community Expert
    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 29, 2020
    Another screenshot to illustrate how useless the interpolation quality makes the rotation for certain Patterns. 
    Left the unrotated pattern, middle the rotated pattern, right a rotated Smart Object of the Pattern. 


    And why is the angle value for the Pattern rotation negative compared to the rotation angle value of a Smart Object? 
    c.pfaffenbichler
    Community Expert
    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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    June 26, 2020
    And the employed resample method seems to be on the »economic« side. 
    See screenshot from left to right: 
    • unrotated Pattern
    • rotated Pattern
    • rotated Smart Object containing the unrotated Pattern 
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    Anonymous
    June 17, 2020
    I don't know about anyone else, but the actual rotation of the patterns are so slow as to make an otherwise great feature almost unusable.. This is both on a windows 10 2004 and macOS 10,14.

    The rotation should be in real time, not after you release the mouse button.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 17, 2020
    I can't believe it, I posted this 9 years ago haha. That is incredible though, I really appreciate it all the same. Thank you Stephen and the Photoshop team! 😄
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 16, 2020
    YAY!!! I've been waiting for over 5 years for this!!!  
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 16, 2020
    Thank you !!! That's going to change my life ! 🙂
    Franck Payen
    Franck Payen
    Inspiring
    June 16, 2020
    OOOOOOh, one of my oldest feature requests !!!
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 16, 2020
    oh my god, thank you. marry me!
    strawbo13
    strawbo13
    Participating Frequently
    June 16, 2020
    This feature has been implemented in Photoshop 2020 (version 21.2) released yesterday June 15th, 2020. Enjoy! And let us know any feedback.
    Earth Oliver
    Earth Oliver
    Legend
    October 12, 2019
    In case you all don't know, Adobe acquired this developer last year:
    https://www.adobe.com/products/substance.html

    All future feature requests need to demand a 2D version of this which Adobe integrates into Ps. 
    Thanks!
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