• Anthemion

  • Arabesque

  • Art Deco

  • Art Nouveau

  • Asymmetrical

  • Basket Weave

  • Batik

  • Bead and Reel

  • Bird's Eye

  • Bohemian

  • Botanical

  • Boteh

  • Brick

  • Bull's Eye

  • Calico

  • Cartouche

  • Celtic Knot

  • Chinoiserie

  • Christmas

  • Coin Dot

  • Collage

  • Composite Overlay

  • Composite Repeat

  • Contour

  • Conversation

  • Coral

  • Counterchange

  • Designer

  • Diagonal

  • Diamond

  • Diaper

  • Digital

  • Directional

  • Ditsy

  • Dog's Tooth

  • Dotted Swiss

  • Drybrush

  • Eccentrics

  • Egg and Dart

  • Engineered

  • Ethnic

  • Everlasting Knot

  • Figurative

  • Fleur de Lis

  • Foulard

  • Four-Way

  • Frieze

  • Gradation

  • Graphic

  • Guilloche

  • Hairline Stripe

  • Half-Drop

  • Harlequin

  • Hawaiian

  • Herati

  • Hexagonal

  • Illusion

  • Interlocking

  • Irregular Repeat

  • Jacobean

  • Landscape

  • Lane's Net

  • Liberty Style

  • Logo

  • Madras

  • Metallese

  • Moire

  • Mosaic

  • Naturalistic

  • Neats

  • Network

  • Nursery

  • Ogee

  • Ombre

  • Oriental

  • Palmette

  • Patterned Ground

  • Pencil Stripe

  • Pet

  • Pheasant's Eye

  • Pin Dot

  • Unbalanced Stripes

  • Undirectional

  • Vermicular

  • Vintage

  • Watercolor

  • Windowpane Check

  • Wreath

  • Zig Zag

  • Damask

  • Matelassé

  • Quatrefoil

  • Houndstooth

  • Suzani

  • Chevron

  • Paisley

  • Ogee

  • Jacobean

  • Ikat

  • Animal Print (e.g., zebra, leopard, crocodile)

  • Dot / Polka Dot

  • Herringbone

  • Plaid / Checkered

  • Gingham

  • Toile

  • Greek Key

  • Southwestern

  • Chinoiserie

  • Flamestitch

  • Argyle

  • Basketweave

  • Batik

  • Brocade

  • Camouflage

  • Ditsy

  • Floral

  • Foulard

  • Geometric

  • Harlequin

  • Herringbone

  • Houndstooth

  • Jacquard

  • Lattice

  • Leopard

  • Medallion

  • Meander

  • Morrocan

  • Mosaic

  • Paisley

  • Pinstripe

  • Plaid

  • Polka Dot

  • Quatrefoil

  • Scroll

  • Seersucker

  • Shibori

  • Stripe

  • Tapestry

  • Tartan

  • Terrazzo

  • Tie-Dye

  • Trellis

  • Tribal

  • Tropical

  • Tropicana

  • Tumbling Blocks

  • Tweed

  • Twill

  • Windowpane

  • Zebra

  • Pinstripe

  • Pop Art

  • Positive-Negative

  • Quatrefoil

  • Random (Tossed Layout)

  • Regency Stripes

  • Regimental Stripe

  • Retro

  • Roman Stripes

  • Sateen Repeat

  • Scale (Clamshell)

  • Scroll

  • Seamless

  • Serpentine Stripes

  • Shepherd's Check

  • Sketch (Croquis)

  • Sprig

  • Square Repeat

  • Stipple

  • Straight Across (Straight Repeat)

  • Striae

  • Swirl

  • Tattersail

  • Tessellation

  • Texture

  • Toil de Jouy

  • Tracery

  • Trefoil

  • Trellis

  • Two-Color Symmetries

  • Two-Directional (Two-Way Layout)

Patterns

Traditional Art Materials and Mediums:

  • Acrylic paint

  • Airbrush

  • Aquatint

  • Batik

  • Bronze (for casting)

  • Carbon dust

  • Charcoal

  • Chalk

  • Clay

  • Conte

  • Crayon

  • Enamel

  • Encaustic (wax)

  • Fabric

  • Fresco

  • Gesso

  • Gouache

  • Graphite

  • Ink (India, acrylic, alcohol-based)

  • Ivory black

  • Linocut

  • Marble (carving)

  • Marker

  • Metalpoint (silver, gold)

  • Oil paint

  • Pastel (oil, soft)

  • Pen and ink

  • Pencil (colored, graphite, watercolor)

  • Plaster

  • Resin

  • Sand (sand painting)

  • Scratchboard

  • Silk screen

  • Soot

  • Stained glass

  • Stone (carving)

  • Tempera

  • Terra cotta

  • Watercolor

  • Wax (sculpting)

  • Wood (carving)

Digital and Electronic Art Mediums:

  • 3D modeling

  • Digital painting

  • Digital photography

  • Fractal art

  • GAN (generative adversarial network) art

  • Pixel art

  • Vector graphics

  • Video art

Mixed Media and Other Techniques:

  • Assemblage

  • Collage

  • Decalcomania

  • Diorama

  • Ephemeral (e.g., ice, food)

  • Found objects (objet trouvé)

  • Installation art

  • Kinetic art

  • Mail art

  • Papier-mâché

  • Performance art

  • Photomontage

Printmaking Techniques:

  • Etching

  • Lithography

  • Mezzotint

  • Monotype

  • Relief printing

  • Screen-printing

  • Wood engraving

  • Woodcut

Textile and Fiber Arts Materials:

  • Crochet

  • Embroidery

  • Knitting

  • Lace-making

  • Macramé

  • Quilting

  • Spinning (yarn)

  • Tatting

  • Weaving

Photography Materials:

  • Cyanotype

  • Daguerreotype

  • Gelatin silver process

  • Photographic film

  • Photographic paper

Art Mediums

Natural Textures:

  • Bark

  • Stone

  • Marble

  • Granite

  • Wood grain

  • Leaves

  • Grass

  • Sand

  • Soil

  • Water (smooth, rippled, turbulent)

  • Fur

  • Feather

  • Scales

  • Moss

  • Coral

  • Clouds

  • Snow

  • Ice

  • Crystal

Fabric and Textile Textures:

  • Cotton

  • Denim

  • Linen

  • Silk

  • Velvet

  • Wool

  • Lace

  • Knit

  • Hessian (burlap)

  • Satin

  • Chiffon

  • Tweed

  • Leather

  • Suede

  • Brocade

  • Canvas

Man-Made or Artificial Textures:

  • Brick

  • Asphalt

  • Concrete

  • Ceramic tile

  • Glass (smooth, frosted, textured)

  • Metal (brushed, rusted, corrugated)

  • Plastic (matte, glossy, textured)

  • Rubber (smooth, grooved)

  • Wallpaper patterns

Textures

Everyday Textures:

  • Paper (smooth, textured, crumpled, torn)

  • Cardboard

  • Foil

  • Bubble wrap

  • Sponge

  • Mesh

Unique and Miscellaneous Textures:

  • Peeling paint

  • Rust

  • Patina on copper

  • Mold and mildew

  • Decayed wood

  • Cracks (in various materials)

  • Burnt edges

  • Fingerprint smudges

  • Water stains

  • Dust and dirt accumulation

Sculpting and Modeling Materials:

  • Ceramics

  • Metal (forging, welding)

  • Molten glass

  • Papier-mâché

  • Polymer clay

  • Stone (marble, alabaster, soapstone)

  • Wood

Artistic and Abstract Textures:

  • Brushstrokes (oil, acrylic)

  • Splatter

  • Sponge

  • Drybrush

  • Palette knife marks

  • Crackle

  • Glazing

  • Wash

  • Impasto

  • Dabbing

  • Grunge

  • Halftone

  • Bokeh (photographic texture)

Aperture Settings:

  • Wide aperture (e.g., f/1.4, f/1.8, f/2)

  • Small aperture (e.g., f/16, f/22)

  • Medium aperture (e.g., f/5.6, f/8)

  • Aperture priority

  • Maximum aperture

  • Minimum aperture

  • Fixed aperture

  • Variable aperture

  • Fast lens

  • Prime lens

  • Zoom lens with aperture range (e.g., f/2.8-4)

  • Lens sweet spot

Resolution Quality:

  • 4K resolution

  • 8K resolution

  • High definition (HD)

  • Full HD (FHD)

  • Ultra HD (UHD)

  • Standard definition (SD)

  • Pixel density

  • Megapixels

  • Retina display

  • High dynamic range (HDR)

  • Wide color gamut

  • Upscaling

  • Native resolution

  • Pixels per inch (PPI)

  • Lines per inch (LPI)

  • Resolution scaling

  • Digital sharpening

Lighting and Exposure:

  • Low light

  • Bright light

  • Natural light

  • Artificial light

  • Diffuse light

  • Direct light

  • Flash photography

  • Exposure compensation

  • Long exposure

  • Short exposure

  • High dynamic range (HDR)

  • Exposure bracketing

  • Light metering

  • ISO sensitivity

  • Noise reduction

  • Shadow detail

  • Highlight recovery

Color and Tone Adjustments:

  • Saturation

  • Vibrance

  • Hue

  • Contrast

  • Brightness

  • Shadows

  • Highlights

  • Midtones

  • Color balance

  • White balance

  • Tint

  • Warm tone

  • Cool tone

  • Color grading

  • Color correction

  • Monochrome

  • Sepia

  • Black and white

  • Tonal range

  • Color depth

Clarity and Focus Adjustments

Post-Processing and Editing:

  • Cropping

  • Resizing

  • Cloning

  • Healing

  • Dodging

  • Burning

  • Layering

  • Masking

  • Gradient

  • Filter application

  • Adjustment layers

  • Compositing

  • Blending modes

  • Opacity

  • Flow

  • Sharpening

  • Noise reduction

  • Vignetting

  • Chromatic aberration correction

  • Lens distortion correction

Composition Techniques:

  • Rule of Thirds

  • Leading Lines

  • Symmetry

  • Asymmetry

  • Frame within a Frame

  • Golden Ratio

  • Negative Space

  • Fill the Frame

  • Centered Composition

  • Patterns and Repetition

  • Texture

  • Juxtaposition

  • S-Curve

  • Diagonal Composition

  • Dutch Angle

  • Rule of Odds

  • Isolation

  • Depth

  • Layering

  • Foreground Interest

  • Background Separation

  • Golden Triangles

  • Radial Balance

  • Color Contrasts

  • Simplification

  • Dynamic Tension

Lens Types:

  • Standard Lens

  • Prime Lens

  • Zoom Lens

  • Wide-Angle Lens

  • Telephoto Lens

  • Super Telephoto Lens

  • Macro Lens

  • Fish-Eye Lens

  • Tilt-Shift Lens

  • Pancake Lens

  • Retrofocus Lens

  • Kit Lens

  • Cine Lens

  • Portrait Lens

  • Anamorphic Lens

  • Perspective Control Lens

  • Mirror Lens

  • Long-Focus Lens

  • Short-Focus Lens

  • Fast Lens

  • Slow Lens

  • Variable Aperture Lens

  • Fixed Aperture Lens

  • Mirrorless Camera

  • Point-and-Shoot Camera

  • Bridge Camera

  • Medium Format Camera

  • Large Format Camera

  • Rangefinder Camera

  • Action Camera

  • 360 Camera

  • Pinhole Camera

  • Instant Camera

  • Film Camera

  • Digital Camera

  • Smartphone Camera

  • Drone Camera

  • SLR Camera

  • TLR Camera

  • DSLR Camera

Focus Modifiers

  • Highly detailed

  • Crisp

  • Defined

  • Fine-grained

  • Vivid clarity

  • Precision

  • Accurate focus

  • Bokeh

  • Selective focus

  • Soft focus

  • Blurry

  • Hazy

  • Out of focus

  • Low resolution

  • Depth of field (DoF)

  • Shallow depth of field

  • Deep depth of field

  • Aperture settings (e.g., f1.8, f2.8, f4)

  • Lens clarity

  • Focus peaking

  • Manual focus

  • Autofocus

  • Focal point

  • Background blur

  • Foreground focus

  • Rack focus

  • Focus fall-off

  • Focal length

  • Gaussian blur

  • Motion blur

  • Defocus

  • Optical quality

  • Pin sharp

  • Edge-to-edge sharpness

  • Focus blur transition

  • Circle of confusion

  • Hyperfocal distance

  • bsolute focus

  • Bokeh highlight

  • Depth of Focus

  • Diffraction limit

  • Digital zoom

  • Edge contrast

  • Enhanced detail

  • Expanded focus area

  • Field curvature

Focus Modifiers 2

  • Focus breathing

  • Focus confirmation

  • Focus distance scale

  • Focus limiter

  • Focus mapping

  • Focus overlay

  • Focus point array

  • Focus range

  • Focus stacking software

  • Focus tracking

  • Full-time manual focus

  • Infinity lock

  • Lens resolution

  • Micro-adjustment

  • Minimum focusing distance

  • Multi-point autofocus

  • Optical resolution

  • Parfocal lens

  • Phase autofocus

  • Pixel pitch

  • Refocusing

  • Resolution test chart

  • Softened edges

  • Subject separation

  • Through the lens (TTL) focus

  • Wide-open sharpness

  • Zone focus system