Open PAT files in your browser
The seamless textures designers fill backgrounds and shapes with. See every pattern in a pack right here, without Photoshop or GIMP. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your file opens as a sheet of every brush, pattern, gradient, shape or style in it, each with its name and size.
- Every tip, pattern, gradient, shape or style • Its name and size
- Filter a big pack by name
- Click one to open it full size
- Save each one as a PNG
About PAT
Photoshop saves its patterns, the tiles a fill or a layer style repeats, in .pat files, and packs of paper, fabric, wood and halftone textures are shared as PAT. GIMP has a .pat of its own, which holds a single pattern.
A Photoshop PAT holds each pattern as a picture, in RGB, grayscale, CMYK, indexed or another mode, packed with PackBits, with its name and an ID. A GIMP PAT is a short header, the pattern's name and its pixels.
Filepeek draws every pattern on a sheet with its name and size, and a filter finds one in a big pack. A click opens a pattern full size as a PNG, and the button beside it saves it.
Photoshop and GIMP patterns
.pat
Format
- MIME type
- application/octet-stream
- Made by
- Adobe, for Photoshop, and GIMP
Inside the file
- Holds
- Seamless pattern tiles
- Modes
- RGB, gray, CMYK, indexed
- Packing
- PackBits
- Made by
- Photoshop and GIMP
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens PAT patterns in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers only download them.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open PAT
- WindowsPhotoshop • GIMP for its own PAT
- MacPhotoshop • GIMP for its own PAT
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
How do I see the patterns in a PAT file?
Drop it on this page. Every pattern shows on a sheet with its name and size.
Can I use the patterns outside Photoshop?
Yes. Click one to open it full size, or save it as a PNG, and it fills a shape in any app that takes a picture as a pattern.
Is a GIMP PAT the same as Photoshop's?
No: they share a name, not a format. A GIMP PAT holds one pattern and Photoshop's holds many. Filepeek opens both.