Creating a pattern using elements designed by yourself

[Nelly_2295]

Hi! 
I would like to create a design by using single elements drawn by myself. I am using Adobe fresco to design the different elements, and than I would like to use them combining them in different ways in order to create different but similar backgrounds on PS. Any suggestions? I found difficulties in using the copy-paste tools on PS and with selecting precisely only the object without any space over the border.
Many thanks!

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Please provide at least one of the images. 

Do the images contain Layers and transparency? 

What »border« do you mean – edges of elements in the image or the edges of the image as a whole? 

Terminology nitpicking:

What’s not represented in the Toolbar is not called a Tool in Photoshop. 

[Nelly_2295]

Hi! Many thanks for replying me!

I have this vectorial design drawn on adobe fresco and saved as a psd file. I would like to use only the design (no background) as an element to be replicated in different scales on the same sheet, to compose a pattern. But I don't know how to do (and if it is possibile).
Many thanks!!

[c.pfaffenbichler]

I don’t follow. 

»Livello vettoriale« is a Smart Object without a solid background anyway, so what is the problem? 

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Have you checked out View > Pattern Preview? 

Edit: 

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/pattern-preview.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/creating-patterns.html

[Nelly_2295]

Hi! 

The point is I would like to use the element in a free manner: like a stamp, copying and applying it on another background in multiple sizes, as I prefer. Is it possibile? I don't want an authomatically created fixed patter by PS but I want to copy-paste the object, maintaing only the object (so round shape exactly at the external circunference).

Many thanks for helping!

[c.pfaffenbichler]

You can create a custom Shape (see Shape Tool) or a Brush Preset. 

Shape Layers would naturally be preferable for editability. 

[@mj]

Hi Nelly,

I think you'll find joy with custom brushes.

Here's how. https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/creating-modifying-brushes.html

Let us know how you go

mj

[Trevor.Dennis]

You could make it a brush. 

In Brush Settings set some size and angle jitter, or perhaps set size jitter to pen pressure.

Give it scatter jitter and check Both axis.

Ajust spacing as required.

I also gave it foreground/background and hue jitter and set the colours to something bright.

Those settings gave me this:

You could give it some order by stroking a path with that same brush

[Trevor.Dennis]

I'm thinking that some of the Filter Forge effects might work. Drost for instance.