« Free Web 2.0 Calendar Icons
Your Favicon is Showing »

Thick Diagonal Lines and Stripes in Photoshop

Here I will give you a very quick tutorial on how to make diagonal lines / stripes in Photoshop. However, if you’d rather have them ready-made, scroll to the bottom of the post to download my Diagonal Line Patterns for Photoshop.

First, open a square canvas made of odd-numbered pixels. I used 15×15px in my first few patterns and then expanded it to a 25×25px canvas.

Now grab the pencil tool and set it to 1px.

diagonal lines

Now you simply have to make the shapes shown below to achieve the desired effect. Every single one of these are included in the Diagonal Line Patterns package at the bottom of the post for you to download.

diagonal lines diagonal lines
A 1-px line
diagonal lines diagonal lines
A 3-px line. Notice the added dots at each corner to make the pattern seamless.
diagonal lines diagonal lines
A 5-px line. As the width increases, you need to compensate for that by filling in the corners in a diagonal fashion as well.
diagonal lines diagonal lines
A 7-px line.
diagonal lines diagonal lines
A 7-px line, this time on a 25×25px canvas.
diagonal lines diagonal lines
A 9-px line.
diagonal lines diagonal lines
A 11-px line.
diagonal lines diagonal lines
A 13-px line.

And so on and so forth. Then simply select Edit > Define Brush Pattern to create your Thick Diagonal Stripes pattern!

The patterns you can download below are the same as those shown above, and will look something like this once you’ve loaded it up into Photoshop:

diagonal lines

And without further ado, here is the link to download the package. If you make anything with this pattern that you wouldn’t mind sharing, please contact me or post a comment and I’ll gladly showcase your work here!

>> Download the Thick Diagonal Lines Package Here <<
Downloaded 12675 times

Similar Posts

This entry was written by Minty Ferret on Sunday, September 16th, 2007 at 4:18 pm and is filed under Photoshop Freebies, Photoshop Tutorials. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

38 Responses to “Thick Diagonal Lines and Stripes in Photoshop”

  1. ahhh!! thanks soo much for answering my call ^^

  2. um.. how do i use the download package?

  3. to use the .pat file - right click save as / make sure you have .pat extension / in photoshop select paint bucket / on top toolbar choose pattern / click icon / click arrrow / load pattern / choose downloaded .pat file

  4. Great pack/tut.
    Im trying to make my own…And i have it! The only probelm is that, when i use it…Something is just not right.
    It would be great if i could send you it and you can see whats wrong or it would be even better if you could just mail me or something a decently thick stripe…Thanks Alot !

  5. Hi Gregor - yeah sure! I’ll see if I can give you a hand, email me the files at flammula (AT) gmail (DOT) com. :)

  6. Do you want me to send you a .jpg or the .pat or what ?

  7. Gregor - Just the pattern should be fine, maybe even the PSD file you were working on.

  8. Email Sent :)…Thanks Alot Man !

  9. Hey, thanks a lot. I’ve been learning to “deal” with my photoshop program. This is a nice freebie ;). Thanks!!

  10. Hey,

    Thanks for the patterns! Is it possible to change the color of the stripes?

  11. Sure is! The easiest way is just to add a colour overlay using Blending Options.

  12. Hi again, im trying to make a certain pattern and it is pretty similar to this and thought you could help me .. Its a pattern from a theme of a phone “Sony Ericsson W660i” It is just like the stripes but rounded. I would be greatfull if you could help me.

  13. Hey Gregor - sure, I’ll take a look! Do you have a specific picture or something I could see?

  14. http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f382/11pam11/dsdsdsdsdsds.jpg

    That is basically what i want but much more profesional looking and as a pattern, I just made this in like 1 min thats why its soo terrible :D .. Thanks alot

  15. I’m still not quite sure what you mean about turning that image into a pattern - I looked up Sony Ericsson W660i but I can’t see the pattern you’re looking for. Do you perhaps have the original image?

    Were you looking for curved lines being repeated across horizontally?

    It might be easier if you email me again. :) Although I am actually super-busy this week (that’s actually a bit of an understatement!), so I might not be able to take a look at this for a little while!

  16. Its ok im not in a rush - Its very hard to see the pattern on the phone its very faint but its like the half circle repeats verticaly if you know what i mean …

  17. yeah, i found this tuts

    thanks

  18. Thank you so much!!!

  19. Awesome content! Thanks!

  20. […] can go to this tutorial here! The download link with the .pat file is right below the […]

  21. how can i use the patterns? (i am newbie:P)

  22. Hey Sama! Here’s a quick tutorial on loading Photoshop Patterns that I found on the net:
    http://www.heathrowe.com/tuts/patterns.asp
    Hope it’s useful! Apologies for not explaining every step in this tutorial, I may go back and append it later on.

  23. thanks..awesome..this is what I look for

  24. thnx

  25. Thanks for the patterns, you saved me a lot of time this morning :-D

  26. wow..it awesome this patterns and save my times to create it…

    Borneo

  27. thanks!! this is exactly what i’m looking for!! ^^

  28. Many thanks, photoshop ready as well what more can i ask for.

  29. Thank you so much, I was trying to do this myself earlier but kept phailing. I had the right idea, I guess (putting black at the edges to smooth it out), but I couldn’t quite get the measurements right. >__

  30. YOU ROCK! Thanks! You are a hero to many photoshop users! You should run for president or nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize! You made it beyond easy… you did the work for us. If you couldnt tell, Im very thankful….

  31. Thank you for the guide; I never was one to make diagonal lines properly.

  32. I downloaded diagonals and was very happy with the outcome except it has caused a glich with the rest of Adobe Elements 6.0.
    For now in need to purge this download so that i can finish my project. How can i identify the download? Thanks, Terry

  33. Terry - I actually don’t have Adobe Elements 6.0 so I’m not too sure how to help. Have you tried deleting the diagonal pattern file from your computer (the one you downloaded?)

  34. Thank you so much… So great!

  35. […] what the site i found out how to do it from is at but this might help. if not i’ll look for it :] Thick Diagonal Lines and Stripes in Photoshop […]

  36. very nice. thanks for sharing the patterns with us. :)

  37. Tyvm for the tutorial :) .

  38. thanks a lot man :P

Leave a Reply