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How to: Overlay Pattern/Brush in Photo?


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Welcome to the forums @Scott_ADV
I had a bit of a play with some Procedural Textures and came up with the technique in my attached video (with bonus mistakes).
It’s not exactly what you want, but it’s quick to do and might be interesting to experiment with to see what you can get.
I’m sure someone will be able to come up with something better.

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The Procedural Texture presets that I use in the video came with the software.
There’s a “Restore Master Presets” button which might get them back for you (select Manage Presets from the ‘hamburger’ menu), but I've never pressed it myself so I don't know for sure what it does.

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I’ve just noticed that I seem to have an unnamed and empty category which I can’t delete, for some reason, so my presets may not be the best ones to use.
Also, I don’t think the default textures can be exported.
Maybe someone else who knows this area better can help you with this.

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Interesting; I don’t use CMYK so I would never have thought of that.
Since the textures only have RGB options (as far as I know) not being able to use them in CMYK sounds reasonable, but maybe we should get a warning of some kind to tell us.
Or, call them “RGB Procedural Textures” and grey-out the menu option when using CMYK.
At the very least, if the Procedural Textures can’t be used with CMYK documents, the Help should say so.

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Rattled off a simple Grunge mesh brush: Grunge Mesh.afbrushes

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There are several ways of achieving this effect...
A. Use an overlay texture(bitmap) as a mask and erode the pattern with a 'grunge' brush
B. Add a bitmap overlay
C. Create a vector pattern and use mask to erode
D. Create a brush and paint the effect
E. Use a bitmap/Style to fill a shape

If you want to play a around with pattern effects there is a nozzle/pattern set I uploaded a long time ago (so long I could not remember where I put it!:)) that does contain a few grid like patterns. It it a asset set as seamless vectors/.png files.
Texture Paint Brush Asset Library
There is also:
Project Inkbrush Vector Assets
but these are definitely not seamless!
 

 

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I made a basic filter in filter forge, well it was basic until about 2 mins ago when I added some more sliders lol!

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For anyone that has Filterforge, this was made in FF9 Grunge Mesh.ffxml

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