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free photoshop and illustrator patterns

free photoshop and illustrator patterns

I played a bit with the flowers I used on my kokeshi dolls’ kimonos. I added some spiral stems and stroked them with one of the built-in calligraphic brush (we are in Illustrator now). As a result: two sets of patterns for Photoshop (a zipped.pat file) and Illustrator (swatches library in a zipped .ai file).

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photoshop: paste a layer into a mask

photoshop: paste a layer into a mask

It has not been the most productive day (so far at least). Still, I learned one thing I want to post about. Few times I wanted to do that and had no idea how to.
Paste a layer(A) into a layer(B) mask. In 4 easy steps:
1. select the layer A and copy it to clipboard (Cmd/Ctrl+a, [...]

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