Cross-stitch pattern in photoshop (with symbols!)

Step 3 Make the grid

The first thing to do here is to define a grid pattern. I used 5px squares, and I want every five lines to be heavier, so I made a new document with 25x25px, and drew four gray lines and one black in both planes. Remember to use a transparent background. Then define it as a pattern.

Now make a new layer above the original and fill it with your new grid pattern.

Next, you want to merge the grid layer and the original image layer.

Nice huh?

You could be satisfied here, but I am not. I once wanted to make a pattern out of a grayscale image using black, white and two shades of grey, but the greys were to hard to tell apart, so next I will explain how to replace colors with representing symbols. (also I have no color printer)

Comments

[Dev5994]

you have a very nice typo there at the start of this step... you forgot to erase "Give a general description of the Step"

[johanronstrom]

Thx! That's what happens when you're too fast to copy-paste.