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I am new to Photoshop CS2 and I have a quick question. Does anyone know how to convert a JPG file into a PAT file. I am trying to fill an area with this JPF file, but, as far as I am aware, I can only fill an area with a PAT file in Photoshop CS2. If someone knows how to fill a defined area with a JPG file, or if you know how to convert this JPG file into a PAT file, I would very much appreciate the help.

Select the image and use the Edit>Define Pattern… menu item to make it into a pattern. You can then use it with the paint bucket tool in pattern mode to fill an area.

The .pat file is used to save your patterns and load them later. You don’t need a pat file just to fill an area. Be careful about defining large patterns and leaving them in the pattern palette. Delete them when you are done using them. Otherwise Photoshop loads them at startup time and large patterns can use up a fair amount of memory.
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I am new to Photoshop CS2 and I have a quick question. Does anyone know how to convert a JPG file into a PAT file. I am trying to fill an area with this JPF file, but, as far as I am aware, I can only fill an area with a PAT file in Photoshop CS2. If someone knows how to fill a defined area with a JPG file, or if you know how to convert this JPG file into a PAT file, I would very much appreciate the help.

No, you don’t fill with files, .pat files are where patterns are stored.

You need to learn the basics.

Go get some

photoshop tutorials beginers

in Google

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Kingdom wrote:

wrote in news:1156283477.267805.196520
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I am new to Photoshop CS2 and I have a quick question. Does anyone know how to convert a JPG file into a PAT file. I am trying to fill an area with this JPF file, but, as far as I am aware, I can only fill an area with a PAT file in Photoshop CS2. If someone knows how to fill a defined area with a JPG file, or if you know how to convert this JPG file into a PAT file, I would very much appreciate the help.

No, you don’t fill with files, .pat files are where patterns are stored.
You need to learn the basics.

Go get some

photoshop tutorials beginers

in Google

But when you actually search, spell "beginners" properly, or take Google’s spelling suggestion, unless you only want to read Photoshop tutorials written by people who can’t spell.

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Kingdom wrote:

wrote in news:1156283477.267805.196520
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I am new to Photoshop CS2 and I have a quick question. Does anyone know how to convert a JPG file into a PAT file. I am trying to fill an area with this JPF file, but, as far as I am aware, I can only fill an area with a PAT file in Photoshop CS2. If someone knows how to fill a defined area with a JPG file, or if you know how to convert this JPG file into a PAT file, I would very much appreciate the help.

No, you don’t fill with files, .pat files are where patterns are stored.

You need to learn the basics.

Go get some

photoshop tutorials beginers

in Google

But when you actually search, spell "beginners" properly, or take Google’s spelling suggestion, unless you only want to read Photoshop tutorials written by people who can’t spell.

Good advice hee hee.

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In article <7sMGg.14185$>,
"Mike Russell" wrote:

Select the image and use the Edit>Define Pattern… menu item to make it into a pattern. You can then use it with the paint bucket tool in pattern mode to fill an area.

Using the Paint Bucket tool often leads to unexpected trouble, because the Paint Bucket tool is not a fill tool like it is in other graphics programs. The Paint Bucket tool will stop when it reaches an area that is not the same color as the area that was clicked on.

Photoshop has no fill tool. Instead, you fill in Photoshop by hitting Alt-Backspace (to fill with foreground color) or Shift-Backspace (to fill with a pattern or change the fill mode).

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tacit wrote:

In article <7sMGg.14185$>,
"Mike Russell" wrote:

Select the image and use the Edit>Define Pattern… menu item to make it into a pattern. You can then use it with the paint bucket tool in pattern mode to fill an area.

Using the Paint Bucket tool often leads to unexpected trouble, because the Paint Bucket tool is not a fill tool like it is in other graphics programs. The Paint Bucket tool will stop when it reaches an area that is not the same color as the area that was clicked on.

Photoshop has no fill tool. Instead, you fill in Photoshop by hitting Alt-Backspace (to fill with foreground color) or Shift-Backspace (to fill with a pattern or change the fill mode).

Photoshop has no Fill Tool, but it does have a "Fill’ menu. The advantage of this menu over the key commands is that you can choose any color, also a color that isn’t the forground color right now.

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In article <1hkjrmr.16zo4n9v8lngiN%>,
(Johan W. Elzenga) wrote:

Photoshop has no Fill Tool, but it does have a "Fill’ menu. The advantage of this menu over the key commands is that you can choose any color, also a color that isn’t the forground color right now.

Yep. And Shift-Backspace is an easy way to bring it up. 🙂

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tacit wrote:

In article <1hkjrmr.16zo4n9v8lngiN%>,
(Johan W. Elzenga) wrote:

Photoshop has no Fill Tool, but it does have a "Fill’ menu. The advantage of this menu over the key commands is that you can choose any color, also a color that isn’t the forground color right now.

Yep. And Shift-Backspace is an easy way to bring it up. 🙂

Of course, but as very few people know or remember all the key shortcuts that Photoshop offers for its menus, I thought it was a good idea to point out that Photoshop may not offer a tool for filling, but it does offer a menu. A menu you can always find, a key combination you have to remember.

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