Flip, Rotate and Mirror Designs and Patterns in Photoshop
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Step 16: Merge Both Layers Onto A New Layer
Once again, let's merge our existing layers onto a new layer. Hold down your Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key just as we did before and, while still holding the key down, go up to the Layer menu and choose Merge Visible. A new merged layer (Layer 3) appears above the original layers in the Layers palette:
Step 17: Rotate The New Layer 45°
With the new layer (Layer 3) selected in the Layers panel, go up to the Edit menu, choose Transform, and then choose Rotate:
The Options Bar along the top of the screen will change to display options for transforming the contents of the layer. Enter 45.0 into the Angle input box to tell Photoshop to rotate the image on Layer 3 by 45° clockwise:
Press Enter (Win) / Return (Mac) once to accept the angle that you've entered, then press Enter (Win) / Return (Mac) a second time to exit out of the Rotate command. Here's my design with Layer 3 now rotated:
Step 18: Change The Blend Mode
Finally, try out different blend modes just like we did before to see how each one affects the way the rotated image on Layer 3 blends in with the layers below it. Different blend modes will give you different results. After trying out a few blend modes on my own, I'm going to choose Lighten this time:
And here, after a series of copying, dragging, flipping, merging, and rotating layers, and playing around with different blend modes, is my final result:
And there we have it!
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