Stencils

Stencil technique:

• start with any photo
• make black and white
• Image -> adjustments -> levels and bring outer pointers into centre
• select black parts with magic wand
• create new layer and hide initial image layer
• use large airbrush and spray selected area, leaving some parts lighter - by changing opacity 
• inverse and spray a few light bits around edges of images to give spray paint effect
• add drips and sprays by downloading or making brushes

Heres a few examples of the photos I started with and the end result

Brushes - Kate in Stars!

Brushes

• You can make a brush out of any image in Photoshop – Internet, scan etc
• Start with image
• Extract part that you want with elliptical marquee
• Copy
• File new (will be size of copied image)
• Paste
• Unview background
• Remove any white parts
• Adjust levels to make image brighter or more contrasted if desired
• Colour doesn’t matter, as it is a brush – make it any colour you like when using it
• Select all – edit – define brush preset
• New document
• Window- brush
• Select brush tool – find your brush
• Can now change colour on colour picker
• In brush window can squash, turn, flip, change size ([smaller ]bigger)
• To write with a brush –
• Pick font, write what you want
• Create new layer
• Use brush to go over text – can change sizes etc
• Unview text layer
• marge visible layers (not background)
• to save brush to computer – go to brush pallet – middle button at bottom – select what you want to save – save set and save to wherever you want

Stripe Repeat

This is a stripe repeat pattern that I created, it's super easy to do!

To create this repeat on photoshop:

• creat 1 sequence of the stripe pattern
• select a small part of the patter that stretched across the whole sequence
• define pattern and save (edit > define pattern)
• open new photoshop file
• fill with pattern (edit > fill > select pattern)

Turnover Repeat

http://www.artlandia.com/wonderland/glossary/TurnoverPattern.html

Mirror Repeat

http://www.flickr.com/photos/photocomix_mandala/5041317525/

Scale Repeat

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zooboing/4183273072/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/webtreatsetc/4442884045/

Ogee Repeat

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMl7F3S8tttwnquoJwpuXt149YzIqcM7RxcD_SiSebqBbZQIEwzpV3iLmJWcdGmCmp7pIJLn2LPzsCqz_GgnaCpg6Nid5YW9qQxmJD2ZOTj8-hEeiqUS7W424vmqaOHKvxwHbLzGXLo6NM/s1600-h/Ogee+pattern+1.jpg