How to Slap a Seamless Pattern on a Shirt in Photoshop (Without It Looking Terrible)

How to Slap a Seamless Pattern on a Shirt in Photoshop (Without It Looking Terrible)

Client asks for a shirt mockup. You think, easy. You drop a houndstooth pattern onto the image, and it either tiles like a ransom note or sits completely flat with zero sense of the fabric underneath. I’ve been there more times than I’d like to admit, usually in a coffee shop, definitely panicking. The fix is more systematic than you’d think, and it starts way earlier in the process than most people expect.

Turn a Plant (or Any Object) Into a Seamless Photoshop Pattern Using Your Phone

Turn a Plant (or Any Object) Into a Seamless Photoshop Pattern Using Your Phone

I used to make patterns the hard way. Define pattern from a manually tiled layer, tweak the offset, realize the seams were visible, start over, repeat until I hated myself. It worked, eventually, but it was the kind of workflow that made me question my career choices. So when I came across this Aaron Nace (PHLEARN) tutorial on using Adobe Capture to build patterns straight from your phone and beam them into Photoshop wirelessly, I watched it twice and immediately opened the App Store.