How to Add a Pattern or Design to Any Surface in Photoshop
Have you ever wanted to add a pattern or design to an image? There are several problems you’ll encounter if you don’t know how to do this correctly, the image not blending seamlessly with the contours, textures, and shadows being the most obvious issue.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to add a pattern or graphic to any surface in Photoshop for a truly realistic look. Let’s get started.
What You Need to Add a Pattern or Design to Any Surface
You’ll need two main image files to add a pattern or graphic to a surface. The main image will be your surface file. The secondary image will be the pattern or graphic that you want to place on the surface.
The main image file can be of any format, JPEG, TIFF, PSD, and so on. For the pattern or design, it’s more convenient to use a PNG or transparent file to place on your surface image. If you need a refresher, we explainthe differences between PNG files and other image filetypes.
If you’d like to follow along, you can download the surface image fromPexelsand the pattern fromUnsplash.
Step 1: Prepare the Surface File
In the first step, we’ll desaturate the file and apply Gaussian Blur to the image. Then we’ll save the image as a PSD file for later use in the next step.
The file is now prepared for the next step. We show youseveral ways to open a PSD file without Photoshop.
Step 2: Apply the Pattern or Design to the Surface File
In this step, we’ll add our pattern file to the layer stack and apply it to the surface.
This was an easy example of adding a pattern or graphic to a concrete surface. Here’s the finished result:
Apply a Pattern or Graphic to Any Surface: A Complex Example
Now, let’s apply the same floral pattern to a person’s shirt. The same two major steps apply. We’ll skip the first step of preparing the surface file because it’s exactly the same no matter what file you’re using. But let’s repeat the second step of adding the pattern to the surface because it gets more complex with the textures of a shirt.
Download the example image fromPexelsif you’d like to follow along.
Add a Pattern or Design to Any Surface in Photoshop
We’ve demonstrated how to add a pattern or design to both simple and complex surfaces in Photoshop. These techniques will greatly enhance your Photoshop abilities and allow you to add patterns, graphics, or even logos to any surface, seamlessly adhering to its textures and contours.
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