How to Make Digital Camo Patterns in Photoshop

Today's tutorial is kind of a follow-on from my guide to creating custom camouflage patterns in Adobe Photoshop from back in 2019. In that previous tutorial I shared some useful techniques for creating a variety of camo pattern styles using nothing but Photoshop filters.
All those camo patterns are comprised of random blobs and shapes, so this tutorial will focus on creating the more modern digital pattern styles that are made up of tiny pixel-like squares. Using a similar process, we can create disruptive digital camo patterns that can be regenerated with a random result every time. By modifying the colour scheme, we can even replicate modern day military camouflage patterns such as the US Marines MARPAT camo, or the Canadian CADPAT.
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[@randymurray934]

What graphics tablet do you use?

[@unchi-wai8930]

Thank you for sharing your idea. Always what we expect, keep up the good work.

[@damienhh288]

Brilliant as always, thanks a lot for sharing your tips and workflow !

[@jairokb2079]

I love all your tutorials!!!!! Amazing TY

[@lizzieheath3200]

Wow - my mind is blown. This is a huge help. Thank you!

[@vishwanathparanjpe5784]

Fantastic . Loved it .

[@mikeparker3865]

great stuff as always!

[@saifulislamrasel6480]

Loved It!

[@hamerthyme7810]

Apologies just noticed you did for all the others. I figured it out . Great tutorial thank you so much

[@benuuya5858]

helped out a lot thanks

[@artegos555]

Good job!!

[@shopveo]

Love it 🥰

[@AJDOLDCHANNELARCHIVE]

Cheers mate!

[@YellowHat07]

Hey friend! Love this tutorial and the other camo one you did. Would you consider doing a tiger stripe camo tutorial at all, or just have any advice as to how to do it? Thank you for this again!

[@windai8843]

Hi sis. I'm amazed by your design 😍😍🥰🥰

[@goko8813]

Threshold won't work after applying smart filter

[@spammail2196]

Awesome

[@devilproductions-official]

Cool! Always what we expect. Keep up the good work

[@Archer1911]

Nice

[@arbabraiyan8200]

after clipping, the layer 1 details layer shows the pixels with small black outlines, how to fix this?

[@olafheilker3464]

I don’t see anything all of the sudden

[@JacksonCarson]

Came here to say the same thing. WTH? I could see the video when it started but over time, it became nearly impossible to make out anything in the video.

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► Watch my previous Photoshop camouflage pattern tutorial - spoon.graphics/2V2nbM6

[@arbabraiyan8200]

how can I change threshold for the difference clouds?

[@binkski2954]

how to make the pixel more smaller for small size canvas document?

[@christianandrewstamaria7486]

Hi Sir. May I request that you make a digital pattern like the digital desert camouflage with added olive color? Please!

[@brianfisher7761]

Is there an easy way to use pictures instead of just the colors to make a camo pattern on Photoshop?

[@johnenembe1025]

Can you also make the tutorial to make mockup with the pattern please...

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Stompin Bruv

[@joesoldchanneldeprecated5948]

I made my own digital camo patterns in IbisPaintX, one a phone.

[@devinmcculloch7231]

im seem to have these slight pixelated lines that are in the camp like the pixels haven't quiet taken all the space. help please. Love the videos you are genius brother!

[@l0vv4sd0m41n]

hey i had the same problem, i just skipped the step where he duplicated layer 1 and continued to the next color. got great results w no lines

[@riverpage7896]

3:50 when i click on the color here nothing happens??

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Song?

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Looking for this to make my own skins from War Thunder

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[@hamerthyme7810]

I really appreciate the video but please give us the full details rather than just shortcuts. Totally lost now lol

[@tensey4278]

Your tutorials is very easy and good but it's hard to do it on windows and i cant

[@fabr5747]

Digital camo IS NOT simply a pixel like camo !!! A digital camo goes far beyond. It adds one component which is essential to it which is analyzing regions, their natural colours and define the colours this way ! And this analysis is made by softwares. For the lack of repetition, as a concept, this is great. But in reality, industrially it's a nightmare and will cost so much more ! And in terms of camo quality, the lack of repetition is both good and not good. Good because it might be future proof from smart reconnaissance system that would spot some repetitions of colours of a data base. But it triggers one problem, the "risky" shapes ! Our animal brain is trained to recognize threats. Among those, we recognize eyes and face shapes / animal face shapes in everything. By watching some rainbow, your brain will recognize a face without you not actively focusing on the clouds ! Therefore with a random pattern design, the problem is to find at some point this kind of unlucky shape. When designing a camo, the first part is to try different approaches. Pixelated, geometric shapes, dots, traditional shape of the european woodland, etc... The second part is to define whether there is a need for two or three different layers. And depending on that, before designing it, it is important to know how many colours are expected to be on it. The first / main layer can be micro details, things or colours you can see from a close enough distance. Then as a second you have a macro design. And then a third one could be a "disrupting" layer. Let's say your camo design has a horizontal like design or focus. then adding some verticality to it as well will make our lazy brain less likely to see it as nature is made of different colours, shapes and orientations. Once the design is large enough and adapted to the printer dimensions, the review part starts. And the review is a tedious part. squares are cut, each squares are reviewed. On a second printed cloth, the squares are cut differently, larger, smaller, or at different places. And with the random aspect, it doesn't make sense.

[@TOL456_]

You do realize this isn't for practical application?

[@wind9967]

牛逼

[@glamorousMSTF]

Sir , I Love what you do and your ideas , so interested to follow the way you are doing , But Thanks again the waste of time , The way you explain and present your tutorials is as fast as the speed of Light and i think the only person who catches it all is yourself. Thank You

[@angelosa.3178]

Yeah if only it was a video which you can replay at any given time. Plus there is a slow down button. Or you know you can pause the video. The only waste of time was you typing your own comment.

[@bluntzera8238]

you go way too fast for beginners had a hard time even going at half of the video speed. make the videos longer go slower pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase!

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Nice