Pattern Scaling

[Semaphoric]

The Scale feature of Pattern Fill Layers is next to worthless. Her is a screenshot of one of the stock patterns @100%:

    

Zoom level is 600% to show the Pixel Grid.

Here is a 100% Pattern Fill converted to a Smart Object, and scaled to 63% using Bicubic:

    

Not too bad for an odd amount of scaling, but a Pattern Fill at 63% looks horrible:

    

Plus, the Pattern Fill scaling control only allows integer percentages, but using SOs allows fractional values, as well as non-proportional, rotation, and even Warp transform. The down side is you may need an extra Edit Contents step to resize its canvas.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Patterns seem to be scaled with something like Bilinear.

Maybe you should check out existing Feature Requests and add your vote:

PHOTOSHOP - Pattern scaling in layers effects is incredibly bad | Photoshop Family Customer Communit...

Photoshop: Rotatable pattern fills | Photoshop Family Customer Community

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Jarda Bereza​, didn’t you post a Request on this a while back?

[Jarda Bereza]

Yes that is your first link. And it is not bilinear. Bilinear has better results 😄

[c.pfaffenbichler]

But it’s not Nearest Neighbour, so it seems to be something altogether different than the standard resampling methods available in the Photoshop Preferences.

Anyway, 2 votes for an improved resampling method and forty-odd for rotatable Patterns does not seem like an impressive turn-out … 

[Semaphoric]

Hmm, I thought I'd posted in that Rotatable Patterns thread, but it must have been somewhere else.

Regarding numbers of votes for feature requests: I saw a thread there where one person requested not having to hold the Shift key to proportionally scale, and one other person agreed. Someone from Adobe replied "Sure, sounds good, we'll do that."

We know how that turned out.

Meanwhile, any number of excellent ideas just languish there.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

I saw a thread there where one person requested not having to hold the Shift key to proportionally scale, and one other person agreed.

There was another one with more votes though it may not have been meant as it was implemented.

Photoshop: Free Transform - ability to set Maintain Aspect Ratio as default | Photoshop Family Custo...

The votes are not a guarantee for implementation, but I think they can help an Adobe employee make the case for resource allocation before the purse-string-holders.

So if you can give Jarda Bereza’s thread a bump maybe some others would notice and agree that Pattern Layers could do with some improvements indeed …

[Semaphoric]

c.pfaffenbichler  wrote

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So if you can give Jarda Bereza ’s thread a bump maybe some others would notice and agree that Pattern Layers could do with some improvements indeed …

Done and done!