Pattern tile saving as straight line???

[Courtney Joy]

Hi, 

Working in Photoshop newest version, on Macbook Pro.

I am making a repeating pattern with horizontal stripes in pattern preview. When I save the pattern to the pattern area to make a pattern tile, it shows in the pattern tile as a straight skinny vertical line surrounded by black. Please see included pictures.

I tried making the pattern stripes with the rectangle tool and the line tool (I did use a different document for each). If I add a shape to the pattern it saves as a normal view, also if I add a vertical line it saves as a normal view. If I open a new document and open up the pattern tile that shows the vertical line surrounded by black the orginal horizontal stripe pattern shows just fine in the new document, so it is just the pattern tile that is showing a thin vertical line...I am hoping someone can help me figure out why this is happening. Thank you in advance

[didiermazier]

What is the size of your pattern sample? Normally an applied pattern will repeat squares of the sample aligned on lines and columns.

So if your aim is to get lines you should make a very large sample

And then applying it will fill the screen

Note that you can chage the size and the angle

Hope it helps

 

 

 

[c.pfaffenbichler]

What is the problem? 

If a Pattern has no horizontal variation a one-pixel-wide column of pixels is sufficient to define it. 

[Bojan Živković]

I'm having trouble understanding as well. Could you please clarify the issue by describing it step by step? Explain what you are doing at each step, how you are creating and applying the pattern, what the actual outcome is, and what you expect to happen.

[Courtney Joy]

Thank you for responding everyone. Here is an update. I am making a repeating pattern with horizontal stripes. My document is 24 inches by 24 inches. When I am saving a pattern tile I am going to Edit>Define Pattern> which open the Pattern name box> Name pattern and save. The pattern tile shows as a small verical line surrounded by black (see top picture). Another options for saving a pattern tile is clicking on the + in the pattern section of photoshop. I have completed horizontal patterns in the past and saved them as a pattern tile and I can see the full pattern in the pattern tile, see pictures of the pattern box below. I don't understand why I can't view the entire stripe pattern in the tile. I am trying to wrap my head around "if a pattern has no horizontal variation a one pixel wide column would be enough to define it."  Thanks.

 

[Courtney Joy]

*I call it a pattern tiles, but I have also heard it called pattern swatch.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

I am trying to wrap my head around "if a pattern has no horizontal variation a one pixel wide column would be enough to define it."  

Photoshop does not »want« to waste resources (in this case at least). 

1px width is perfectly sufficient to define a pattern of horizontal lines as all columns of pixels are identical to one another. 

If you want to force a square tile you could introduce some artefact, like pixels that are one value off the original color (could even be in the transparency).