Pattern
Repeats an element, a shape or your own file, and sets its size and position from the tones of the photo.
How Pattern works[photoshop plugin · v0.16.5]
WGT-01Walife Generative Tools
Patterns, generative styles and layout. Everything starts from the greyscale of your image.
Style
One panel,three tools
WGT-01 lives in a Photoshop panel, next to your layers. Inside are three tools: one repeats elements, one redraws the image, one lays out the text.
Styles
Ten generative styles, from dither to contour lines, on all visible layers. Four export to SVG.
The ten styles
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Type
Lays out posters, posts and stories: it picks the composition, sets the text on a grid and keeps it readable over the photo.
How Type works10 styles,
one photo
Pick a style and drag the slider to compare it with the original. This is a light version computed in your browser: in the plugin every style has its own controls and presets.
OriginalDither
One element,thousandsof positions
Pattern repeats an element and sizes it by tone: it grows in the shadows and vanishes in the highlights. Switch element or upload your own.
Element
The file stays in your browser.
- Elements from ready-made shapes or from your own SVG, PNG or JPG file.
- Different elements for dark, mid and light areas.
- Random rotation and scale; “Variant” reshuffles only the random part.
The textfinds itsplace
Write a title, details and a call to action. Type recognises the format, takes colours from your brand or the photo with always-readable contrast, picks typefaces from the ones you have installed and tries six compositions that avoid the subject.
Layout
Everything on the centre axis, the text low beneath the subject.
Illustrative preview. In the plugin, measurements are calculated on your document and the text stays as editable layers.
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Rastervector
Halftone, Engraving, Flow lines and Contour lines also export to SVG. What difference does it make? Zoom into the same halftone and see.
PNG: a grid of pixels
Every halftone dot is made of tiny squares. Zoom in or print large and the edges break up.
SVG: shapes, not pixels
Every dot is described as a circle: centre and radius. It stays sharp at any size and you can open it in Illustrator to change it.
And for print: four plates
In print, each ink (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) has its own plate, with the screen rotated to a different angle. Halftone exports the four plates to SVG already separated, one per layer. Switch some off to see how they add up.
[3 of 10 styles · free]
Try it
Bring one of your photos to the try-it page and see it in Dither, Halftone or ASCII. Everything is computed in your browser: the photo never leaves your computer.
try-it.psd @ 100% (RGB/8)click, and the image turns into pixels