Align to grid

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August 8, 2018
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I purchased a pattern (someone else's design). It was very small and on multiple pages. Making it larger is an easy adjustment in Photoshop, but splicing the pages into one pattern is proving troublesome. I scanned a paper original and my gridlines and page edges are all wavy. I've tried distort and puppet warp with very slight improvement. I'll get one corner aligned and the one I just fixed will pop out of alignment. Also, because I'm distorting them, the gridlines on the two pages do not line up. Someone else suggested I try liquify, but even after watching several tutorials, I'm not figuring out how it works on my particular image. Are there any other ways of aligning an image or path to a grid or frame?

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JJMack

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You would need to define a new pattern like the one you purchased but sized larger. Here I outliner 8 pattern each looks empty in the thumbnail. Actually all a black square outlines. Each is a different size square 25px, 50px, 75px, 100px, 150px, 200px, 250px and 300px. I filled a layer with each.

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mollykittiAuthor

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It's not my grid or my pattern. It's one I purchased and scanned in. I would recreate it myself, but that would be VERY time consuming. It's several thousand squares across and over a thousand vertically. As far as I know, I'd have to recreate each square one at a time. I can't just overlay my grid on top of the pattern because very few of the symbols would line up with their assigned square.

JJMack

Community Expert

Unless of course there was some way to line up the scanned grid with a grid pattern I created.

Its even easier that that, When you use fill Pattern and you pull down the pattern list and position the mouse cursor over the pattern a Tip window will pop open and show you the size and mode the pattern has like I showed in my screen captures. Once you know that you open a new document that size and mode and fill it with the pattern. You can resize the document and define a new pattern. the size you need. You man nee to fix it quality first if the resize change size is a large difference in size.

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Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I'd abandon what you are doing, and start again by making a seamless pattern

How to Create a Seamless Pattern (Tile) in Photoshop « Julieanne Kost's Blog

If there is scroll work involved, you need to use the grid, and plan where to take the pattern from. If you'd like to paste some of the sroll work to this thread, we can give you step by step specific help.

[EDIT] I have just read your post again, and I am wondering where on earth I got scroll work from? Show us what you are dealing with, and I am sure someone will help.

mollykittiAuthor

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It's a cross stitch pattern. It has little icons in each grid square representing the color that was supposed to be used. I hesitate to post it here as it is someone else's copyrighted work. I have included just a very small corner of the pattern I'm trying to fix. I know it doesn't look that crooked, but it's enough to make the pages not match up and the rows not line up. It's not just a straightening issue either. Looking at the whole edge, the grid lines are wavy.

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