Tessellations - 4" by 4"Tessellations - 2" by 2"Tessellations - 1" by 1"A tessellation is the arrangement of shapes fitted closely together. To create a tessellation, first create an 8" by 8" document with 300 resolution. To create grid line markers, go to view - new guide- and create one horizontal and one vertical line at the 4" mark. Save as "tessellation 8 inch template" as a jpeg on your desktop. Then select a photograph to use for the tesselation in iPhoto. Drag the photo into the Photoshop icon as a new file. Crop within the image to a square. Use the option on the top left side to change it from "unconstrained" to 1 x 1 square. Edit the size of the image by pressing image > image size and change to 4" wide and 4" height, 300 resolution. Move the cropped square portion of the picture into the top left square of the 8" by 8" document. Duplicate the layer by going layer> duplicate layer. Move the top duplicate layer to the right side and then select edit> transform > flip horizontal. Go back to layer one and layer >duplicate layer again.
Move the next duplicate layer from the top left hand side to the bottom left corner and press edit> transform> flip vertical. Highlight layer one again and layer> duplicate layer for the third time. Move the layer to the bottom right hand side and edit > transform > flip horizontal and then edit >transform > flip vertical. Once finished, move the guides using the move tool to make sure there's no gaps. If there are, reposition the images so they overlap slightly. Save your work as a Photoshop file to your desktop. I liked creating the various geometric patterns. It was difficult, in the more intricate tessellations, to keep track of which square to rotate which way/ place (there were so many squares). If I could go back, I would experiment more with different colors and backgrounds.
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