Multicolor Fill

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This is an easy way to generate unique, multicolor fill for text outlines, buttons, and other shapes.
     Open any photograph which you have saved at low resolution (72 dpi). I used the picture of the dog, shown below.
      Use the zoom tool, or the Navigator palette to go to maximum magnification. This means, keep clicking with the zoom tool until the center of the tool’s icon becomes an empty circle, or drag the Navigator zoom slider all the way to the right.
Navigator palette showing max zoom
Then drag with the hand tool in the image, or drag the view box in the Navigator palette, shown red above, to find a collection of magnified pixels that you like. Pick ones that are colorful, and varied.		 next
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Displacing Textures 		Maximize the Photoshop window, and make your magnified image cover the entire screen. Press Tab to make the palettes and toolbox go away, temporarily. Then press the screen capture button on your keyboard. It’s the button just to the right of the F12 key which says “Print Scrn.” This copies the screen contents to your clipboard.
     Choose File > New. Photoshop will have already filled in the dimensions of the image you have on the clipboard (the screen shot). Click OK to create a new document with a white background which has your screen’s dimensions. Choose Edit > Paste. The screen shot will be pasted onto the new document, and placed on its own layer above the white background. Press Tab to get your palettes, and toolbox to reappear.
      Press Alt, and double click the new layer. (If you are using Photoshop v. 5.5, don’t press Alt; simply double click the layer). Name it “Color”. Double click the zoom tool icon in the toolbox to make the image go to 100 % magnification.
     You can close the photograph which you used as a pixel source.
     Below you can see what our end results will look like, but we have a few steps to go before we get there.
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