How to create and apply Custom Patterns in Photoshop

This post is about creating and applying custom patterns in Photoshop. It is a part of a series, the other parts are:

The differences between brushes and patterns in Photoshop,
Photoshop Brushes: install and create,
Photoshop Patterns: install, create #1 and #2.

How to create and apply Custom Patterns in Photoshop

Here are two quick and easy tutorials on creating a grid effect in Adobe Photoshop by using custom patterns. You can use this technique to make your own patterns.

Both tutorials are quite the same, only the pattern varies. We included both into this one post to show you the power of Photoshop. You can create just about anything using this technique!

Tutorial #1:

View this tutorial here.

Tutorial #2:

View this tutorial here.