![]() Re-center the selection area on your composition if you change the selection area’s dimensions. For example, I’ll change my circle to a 30 x 30 px circle (make sure both measurements are the same to keep the selection area a circle). If you have an exact size you want for the circle, you can adjust it inside the Tool Options for the Ellipse Select Tool under the “Size” field (red arrow in the image above). The middle cross-hair of the selection area (red arrow in the image above) will snap to the center guides of the image (make sure snapping to guides is turned on by going to View>Snap to Guides). I can then click and drag the selection area towards the middle of my composition. I’ll now click once inside the selection area to select it. When I release my mouse, a circle selection area will be drawn on the composition. If I hold the “Shift” key, the ellipse selection will have a 1:1 aspect ratio – or in other words will be drawn as a perfect circle. I’ll click and drag with this tool on my composition. Next, I’ll grab the Ellipse Select Tool from my Toolbox (red arrow in the image above – you can use the shortcut key “E”). Now that I have center guides (denoted by the red arrow in the image above), I’ll zoom in on my composition (using either ctrl+mouse wheel shortcut or using the zoom dropdown in the bottom left corner of the image – denoted by the blue arrow). There will now be a horizontal and vertical center guide on my composition. This will create a vertical center guide. I’ll repeat this step to create another guide, but this time will choose “Vertical” from the dropdown (red arrow). This will create a horizontal guide on my composition exactly halfway down the composition. I’ll create a “Horizontal” guide first (red arrow in the image above) and set the location of the guide to “50.0” – or 50% (blue arrow). You can do this by going to Image>Guides>New Guide by Percent (red arrow in the image above). To make sure your circle/dot is centered, I recommend adding center guides. The simplest dot pattern involves adding a circle to the center of your composition. Of course, if you want your pattern to be larger, simply create a larger document to start (just make sure it’s a square). 1920 x 1080 px compositions), I recommend going with a 60 x 60 px document size (I typed 60 for both my Width and Height values in the Create a New Image dialogue pictured above). If you plan on using your patterns on HD composition frequently (i.e. The composition size will be the size of each tile of your pattern – so you can make it any size you want. We’ll start this tutorial off by creating a new composition – which you can do by going to File>New. ![]()
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