3 Essential Fills for Photoshop : Grids

Introduction
Scan lines
Bumps
Grids
Using your Fills

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Grids

This is probably the most used fill across all logos ?and it still looks great.

1) First fire up a new 10 x 10px transparent document.
2) Zoom in at max (1600%) and go ahead and fill up the bottom and right sides like this:

3) Go ahead and define your pattern now, and you?re set!
4) Here is what your results would look like on our blue background:

You can make bigger (or smaller) grids by changing the size of the image you start with, for instace: If you want a 20px x 20px grid just make a 20px x 20px image to start, insted of the 10px x 10px that is used here. The same goes for smaller grids.

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