Multicolor Fill

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If you are in a hurry, and can’t find a photograph to use as a pixel source, you can use Photoshop default patterns as a source of color pixels. Make a new, white document at 72 dpi, and then choose Edit > Fill. From the Fill dialog box’s menu, choose Pattern. In the menu that appears, pick a colorful pattern and then click OK.
pattern fill dialog box
I picked the one called “Nebula” which the cursor is pointing to in the illustration above. It makes colored fill that looks like this:
Nebula pattern fill
After following the steps outlined in this tutorial, I created the result shown below from that pattern fill. 		back
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Doodling		 color fill created from pattern fill

The fill below, was created from the photograph’s pixels
featured in the earlier examples
color fill created from photograph’s pixels

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Displacing Textures 		If you don’t rotate the pixels, the result is okay, but not quite as nice, see below. I expect you can do cool stuff by applying filters to the colored pixels, but I don’t have time to experiment right now. I’m supposed to be a photographer...  
 



Below is a variation on the example created during the tutorial.
In this example, I used different settings in the Hue/Saturation
dialog box, and a plain emboss style, instead of pillow emboss
variation on hue/saturation settings
Hue/Saturation settings were + 85 Saturation, and + 36 Lightness

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