Define pattern issues

[allisonl54469577]

When I go to define patterns, the preview box shows a very thin selection as a pattern instead of the proper pattern. Argh i dont even know how to explain the problem properly and it is so frustrating! Define brush is working fine. When I go to define a brush wtih the same image it looks perfect.. for some reason define pattern is not working properly. Please see screenshot

[Guest]

Hi

Not seeing the issue here on Windows with Photoshop 20.0.6, have you tried resetting PS preferences

You may want to backup your settings before hand

Migrate presets, actions, and settings

[c.pfaffenbichler]

I think Photoshop sheds useless data for patterns, so if for example the pixels are identical along the x axis a column of 1px width suffices to recreate the pattern. 

[Chuck Uebele]

A pattern has to have some texture in it. It can't be one solid color.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Yeah, in that case the Pattern could be expressed as one single pixel.

[Mike_Gondek]

I am not getting the result on Mac. After I deleted background layer could not get the rectangle path to show (but that is not important).

 

To define a pattern try select all or something to have to have matching ants to define pattern bounds, that might help.

[Chuck Uebele]

They actually fixed part of this issue, but with the transparency, I think it shows up again. To get around it, I added a brush stroke the length of the pattern, but just one digit off in color, so if you have an rgb value of 0, 0, 0, try 1, 0, 0.