How To Get FREE Patterns; Icons; and Brushes in Photoshop! - Creative Cloud Market Video Lecture | Mastering Adobe Photoshop CC 2017: Step by Step Tutorials - Design

Welcome back to another very exciting tutorial
here at the PhotoshopTrainingChannel.com.
My name is Jesus Ramirez and you can find
me in Instagram @JRfromPTC.
In this video, I'm going to show you how to
get free Patterns, Vectors, UI Elements and
Brushes in Photoshop.
As some of you may know, I do a lot of traveling.
I speak at a lot of conferences and this is
something that I usually show at conferences
and it always surprises me how many people
don't know about it so I decided to make a
video about it.
So here we are in Photoshop and some of you
may know that if you open up your Creative
Cloud app, there is a section called Assets,
so I'm going to click on that and from this
section, you can download different elements
on to Photoshop.
You can click on this dropdown and you have
User Interfaces, Vectors, Icons, Patterns,
and Brushes.
I'm not going to go through all the categories,
but some of the more useful ones are Icons.
So, if you're designing a website and you
need something like a Facebook logo, you can
just type in Facebook and you get different
Facebook logos that you can download onto
the Creative Cloud so that you can use them
on your design.
So, if you wanted to use this button here,
you can just click on the Download button
and you can select the library.
And I have this library titled "Assets Tutorial,"
so I'm going to select it and I'm going to
move this to the side and it's going to come
up in my Libraries panel in the Assets Tutorial
library and there it is.
So, I can click and drag it into my working
document and this is a smart object.
You can see the icon here is linking to the
Cloud, but if I double-click on it, it opens
up and I can make adjustments to it if need
be.
I'm going to close this and we're going to
look at a couple of other things.
I'm just going to delete this layer, so I'm
going to hit the Delete key.
I want to bring the Creative Cloud app back
and I'm going to clear that search.
And you can also type in Icon set so that
you get a whole bunch of icon sets like this
here so that you can use on your designs.
So, that is really useful when you're creating
websites or apps in Photoshop.
Another thing that you can look for is Patterns.
So I'm going to select Patterns and, again,
you can just search for something or just
go down the list and look at all the different
patterns that you can download.
So this could be backdrops for your photography
or it could be patterns to be used on your
designs.
You could use them for anything that you like.
So, you can select something like this pattern
here.
Once again, I'm going to add it into the Assets
Tutorial library.
I want to move this to the side and you can
see it uploading here.
Some of these may be vectors and if you double-click
on them, they will open in Illustrator.
If they're bitmapped images, they'll open
up in Photoshop.
So, I'll double-click on this one.
This particular one is an SVG.
If I hover over it, you can see, and you can
see that Illustrator is opening up and you
can see the vectors that make up that image.
I'm not going to make any changes to it, but
I could if I wanted to, so I can just drop
this in here and I can scale it up.
It's a vector image so scaling it up will
not pixelate it and then, I can just hold
Ctrl, Command on the Mac, click in the layer
thumbnail to make a selection around that
object, then go to Image and crop, then I
can go into Edit, Define Pattern and now this
will be a pattern that I could use for anything
I want.
So you can rename it if you want to.
I'm just going to call it "Pattern 1" and
I'm going to press OK.
And I'm actually going to Undo the crop, disable
that layer, press Ctrl D, Command D, to deselect,
and I'm just going to create a Pattern Fill
layer and look at that pattern there, so then
I can click and drag this pattern around;
it's seamless.
I can scale it to maybe 50% or 25% and, again,
I can move it around.
And now that it's a layer, I can adjust it
anyway that I want and obviously, I have access
to the Blending Modes.
And, finally, the last thing that I want to
show you is you can download brushes and this
is really powerful because you can now simply
look for the type of brushes that you need
for your compositing projects or whatever
project you're working with.
So, I'm just going to close this and I'm going
to go into Brushers, and I can just type Clouds.
It looks for clouds and it's under All Categories,
so I need to change the two brushes, and there
you go.
I have access to all these cloud brushes,
so I'll just select this very first one here,
just to see how that one works, so I'm going
to add it into my Asset Tutorial library and
I want to move this back out, and it's loading
on to my library, there it is.
If I double-click on it, it selects the brush
that I downloaded and I can select the background,
and I can start painting with my brush and
maybe I can bring the opacity down and continue
painting these clouds.
So, as you can see, you have a lot of options
of the things that you can download into Photoshop
and start using them right away for your projects.
Also, we didn't go through everything.
You can also download User Interfaces if you're
a designer, so you can download Calendars,
Phone mockups, all kinds of things.
There's a whole bunch of things available
for you to download.
So, just remember, it's in the Creative Cloud
app under Assets and Market, and you have
all these different categories.
If this was new to you, let me know in the
Comments.
If it wasn't new to you, then maybe leave
a comment letting people know the useful things
that you have downloaded to help you with
their projects.
Thank you so much for watching and I'll talk
to you again soon.