This tutorial will teach you how to save an image or picture and use it as a new pattern in Photoshop. And next time, whenever you’re working with larger canvas, you can just use the Fill Layer feature in Photoshop to set the pattern as your background.

1. Open the image you want to use as pattern.

2. Then, go to Edit > Define Pattern. Type in the name you want for the new pattern and click OK.

3. Now, we want to use the new pattern as a background in our new project. Open a new document, whatever the size is up to you.

4. Go to Layer > New Fill Layer > Pattern. You’ll see this small window.

Click OK and you’ll see another window for you to select the pattern you want to use. Choose the pattern you created just now and click OK.

And you’ll have a nice background for your new project.

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This Photoshop tutorial is about customizing the interface of the Photoshop.  This is one of the best features available to the user. This is because every user has their own way of doing things, keeping this in mind the software has provided a totally customizable interface. By using this any user can use Photoshop CS4 in a way which suits them.

The Photoshop CS4 tutorial for custom interface is really simple. This is done as follows, as we know that we have various panels at the right  hand side of the interface, some of them being layers, channels paths etc. you  will eventually find that you use some of the panels more frequently than the others, while some u may never use. Keeping this in mind the Photoshop has devised an ingenious way to make the interface user friendly. What you do is that when you open any panel you can see tabs at the right top corner of the panel and u can switch from panel to panel by clicking on them, so what you do is that you can click on the tabs and actually drag them out of the panel resulting in a new panel consisting of only one tab.

You can also merge more panels into a single panel. This Photoshop CS4 tutorial is done by dragging the panel into another when this happens there appears a blue glow in the panel below, drop your panel into it and you will find that the panels have merged hence condensing the workspace. You can also separate out the unwanted panels and close them off saving only the used ones with you. You can also drag the panels to the left corner and drop them beyond the tool box; here you will see that you can arrange the panels as you please. This Photoshop CS4 tutorial will mean nothing if you do not want to be more creative and efficient.

When you are comfortable using a specific customized interface you can actually save the settings for further use. This can be done by going to the menu “windows” click on “workspace” and then “Save workspace” by doing this you can directly have the settings the next time you use the interface. If you want to reset the settings or change to some other predefined interface you can go to the button on the top left corner called “Essentials” and click on it,  you will see that the default interface is restored. You can select any other interface too.

In Photoshop CS4 we can also customize the entire menu at the top. This is done by going to the menu “File” and then “Menus” here you can add or delete any menu required by the user. It is very easy to use. You can also change the color of the menus from that dialog box reminding you to use the option more frequently or for any other use.

In this way the Photoshop interface is very flexible and easy to modify as per the needs of the user.

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