3 Essential Fills for Photoshop : Bumps

Introduction
Scan lines
Bumps
Grids
Using your Fills

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Bumps

1) Ah the Bumps, These are fun. The first thing you need to do is create a 10px x 10px transparent image.

2) Next, zoom in at 1600% (so you can see what you?re doing) and select a 2px x 2px area in the middle of your document using the marquee tool Win&Mac (M). Then fill it up with black.

3) Now, go into your layer blending options...

...and put in the following information for each of the following properties:

4) Now that you?ve finished that, you should have something that looks like this:

5) Go ahead and define this pattern, Edit > Define Pattern and see what you can do with it. Here is an example of how it can be used on a Blue background.

Before:

After:

Note: Play around with the layer opacity as well to achieve diffrent looks.

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