P: Rotatable pattern fills

I work at a landscape architecture firm and we make highly detailed rendered plan illustrations. For things such as paving patterns, roof canopies etc, using patterns is great because it keeps file sizes low but provides a great deal of detail. However, paving patterns, etc. rotate with the building orientations, road alignments etc. Keeping these as a pattern and layer style allows them to be easily edited. Please, please implement a function to rotate patterns.

I would also love to have this function in Photoshop! I do it all the time in AI. I work with textile print designs in the fashion industry and often need to create mockups of my work for pre-press catalogs and for pre-line presentations and it would be great if along with the existing ability to shift the pattern laterally and vertically there was an option to rotate the pattern too!

I have also had in my mind this feature so often. I have also done that kind of wood textures as Diego show'd at the previous post. The best I could do was to create the pattern as a smart object, create clipping mask and then rotate, but I think its not the best way since editing smart objects is not so intuitive workflow.

I was looking for a way to do this and I came up with this forum. Im a UI designer and I work with patterns everyday. A good example is the image below. I wanted to create a wood pattern that could follow the same angle as the wood planks. Doing this manually is very time consuming and hard to edit.

I'd really like the ability to rotate textures and patterns that are applied to my layers as live layer styles or fill layers. It would help to break up the repeating pattern in areas where it might be more noticeable (it's usually easier to spot when it's going straight across or vertically). Also, it means that I could use the same texture/pattern on different layers, but just rotating the texture a little bit could make it look like totally different from other layers using the same effect.

Oops, I didn't see the earlier suggetions for this. Sad to see that Adobe still didn't implement this simple thing.... I don't agree with Scot. Indeed, that's how it works today, but it is a waste of time doing it that way...

Please, make it possible to rotate patterns / pattern overlays in the layer styles. An easy thing to add, very handy for users. Otherwise you have to make numerous of patterns, in different angles. I hope this will be aviable in an upcoming update...

I actually just logged in to suggest this very thing.

For many things where a user wants a pattern fill layer style the only workaround is to create a new pattern at the desired angle.

For shapes it's easy enough to just dup a layer, apply the pattern fill, rotate the layer, then mask. But when applying a pattern fill to things like text (which will undoubtedly change later) multiple layers can be cumbersome to manage and re-mask should changes occur in the text.

The ability to simply set the angle of a pattern would not only cut down on the necessity to manage multiple layers with associated masks, but would also cut down on the amount of patterns needed to accomplish a given task. A user could have a straight, single pixel, vertical pattern then be able to use that one pattern tile for any single row pattern they wanted whether at 45°, 90°, 30° or whatever.

Since this is regarding pattern fills... I'd also love smart object patterns. Double click a pattern swatch and it opens in Illustrator for adjustment. I know, probably left field... but you never know until you say something 😉

i've asked for something like this in the past.
i want a "smart" pattern fill. for retouching clothes with patterns. I've had to reconstruct pinstriped suits - and its not fun.

I'd like a filter to take a sampled area - like a swatch of pinstripe - that doesn't have to be perfectly repeating and the "smart" pattern filter would make a perfect repeating pattern. This pattern could be used as a texture mask for retouching, could be rasterized into pixels and warped into place, etc.

so as for justification - this would benefit pro retouchers for sure.
anyone who works with fabrics.
and it could save alot of time.
i am constantly fixing poorly styled clothes - and alot of them have patterns and having a good master swatch pattern would be a big help.

Thank you Chris for moving this here, i searched "rotate", and not "rotatable" 🙂