You’re probably wondering why I suggested you to make a new layer for the pattern fill. Well the reason is – whatever the color you have chosen for foreground, the pattern will always be black, because that’s how you created it. If you created red pattern, it would always appear red. Since the pattern is on separate layer, you can change its color easily – click on the layer icon (in our case layer is named Layer 1) holding Ctrl key. This will create a lot of small marquee selected areas. Choose the foreground color (mine is red) and press Alt+Backspace. Click Ctrl+D to deselect the areas and you will see your pattern is now in chosen color.
Step 5: Creating pattern sets
If you intend to become at least an intermediate Photoshop user, you will need a lot of patterns stored for future uses. You probably see yourself that mixing them with default photoshop patterns won’t be good, so you must separate your custom patterns from the default Photoshop ones.
First thing you must do is to delete all the unwanted patterns from your pattern inspector. Note that if those patterns are saved, this won’t delete them from the disk – it will only clear them from your pattern inspector. To do this, right-click on the unwanted pattern and click Delete Pattern. Repeat this step until only your custom patterns are left (or the inspector is cleared from all patterns. Now each pattern you create will add up to those you left. When you created a solid amount of patterns you wish to use in future, open the inspector to view your patterns, click on the rounded arrow on the right to open the menu and select Save Patterns… – this will pop up a window for file save. Save the patterns in the default Photoshop pattern folder so that they load automatically when Photoshop is run. You can easily copy them to other folders from there if you ever need to.
You can load patterns that are not on the list of patterns in the menu the same way – open the inspector, click on the rounded arrow and Load Patterns…
I hope you understood this tutorial well, I tried to make it as simple as it can be. Have fun making patterns 
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