User guide

134 Painting, Drawing, and Text
Using patterns
The Pattern Tool (Tools toolbar's Clone Tools flyout) lets you paint a
pattern directly onto your canvas. In effect, it "clones" any pattern bitmap you’ve
selected while providing the flexibility to paint wherever you wish, and control
opacity, blend mode, and so on. Like the Clone Tool, the Pattern brush picks up
pixels from a source—in this case, the bitmap pattern—and deposits them where
you’re drawing. You can choose a pre-defined, tiled bitmap pattern from the
Patterns dialog, or define your own patterns.
As an example, patterns can be used effectively as a painted background, perhaps
when creating web graphics.