Pattern sheets

Make a pattern sheet to capture a real thing from every side and keep it as one sheet of photo patterns. Film a slow lap around your mug, or snap it from each side, and every angle ends up on a single sheet, ready to rip pieces off wherever photos work.

Start a sheet

In Paint’s photo mode or the Pattern studio, add a photo. The popup offers Take a photo, Camera roll, and Make a pattern sheet; pick the sheet and the workspace opens.

Collect your photos

Three doors fill the strip at the bottom:

• Video: pick a video and a card opens with a scrubber, titled Pick frames from your video. Slide to a good angle and press Take this frame; each grab hops into the strip, and the card stays up so you can keep grabbing. Pick another video swaps the source.
• Photos: multi-select from your camera roll, and they all land together.
• Camera: one tap, one shot, straight onto the strip.

Build the sheet

Drag photos from the strip onto the sheet. Tap a placed photo for its chips: Warp it opens the corner-pull card, where you drag four dots around the part you want (the mug’s front, one clean side) and press Use it straight to flatten and square it. To front and To back shuffle overlaps, and ✕ takes a photo off the sheet; the strip keeps the original.

The Loose · 4 pockets · 16 pockets control at the top tidies the sheet: Loose lets photos sit anywhere, and the pocket layouts snap each one into its own tile.

Save and use it

Press ✔ Save and the sheet lands on the Your pattern sheets shelf in the photo popup. From there it works anywhere photos do: tap it, frame or warp out the part you want, and stamp it onto a Flatling or turn it into a tile . Each sheet also has a download button that saves it as a PNG.

Game artists have a name for a sheet like this: a texture atlas. The PNG download is how you take yours to other 3D tools, alongside a .glb export.