950 Fixing a broken candy cane pattern

- All right, now I'm going to show you how to fix … a broken candy cane pattern. … And how do we tell it's broken? … Well, notice up here in the View menu, … we have a new command, at least in Photoshop 2021, … called Pattern Preview. … And so if I go ahead and choose that command, … Photoshop automatically repeats the pattern … to show me what it looks like. … Problem is, this is wrong, by the way. … And that's because, at least as things stand now, … the Pattern Preview command works best with smart objects. … And so what I'm going to do is go over here … to the Layers panel, shift click on the thick lines layer, … so both thin and thick lines are selected, … and then I'll right click on an empty portion … of either of those two layers … to bring up this big pop-up menu, … and I'll choose convert to smart object. … At which point you can see that things are indeed broken. … Aren't actually this broken, … which is why I'm going to return to the View menu … choose Pattern Preview to turn it off, …