Tutorial On Pattern Making 77 Responses

Last post: 2 months, 3 weeks ago | Thread started: Aug 27, 08, 12:40 p.m.

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• Iggyboo

  Alright so about 2 hours ago I was tricked up in trying to figure out how to make objects perfectly line up by hand for illustrator to make symmetrical 5 and 4 point patterns.

  This is how you do it in illustrator without buying software and its very easy so for those of you interested take a second and try it for yourself:

  1. First off, load up illustrator search illustrator in the top left and click on the drop down menu for 'preferences' ---> guides and grids
  2. In that menu fill in Gridline every: 10px, and 1 for subdivisions.
  3. go to view turn on grid, and snap to grid.
  4. create a box that is 120 x 120 px make sure it is exact and is lined up with the grid.
  5. Create an object or load one up. when its completed make sure you mathmatically purportion it to 120. so 20x20 / 40x40 / 60x60 all work. For the sake of exercise make the object 40x40.
  6. put the object in the center of the box by lining it up vertically and horizontally with the box behind it.
  7. duplicate the object and place it in the top left hand corner. make sure that the object is centered at the top left point. repeat this for all 4 corners.
  8. take the objects all 5 of them now and go to the path finder tool and mesh them together as one piece hit expand and then....
  9. create a 400x400 box it doesnt matter what color and then duplicate the orignal 120x120 box and put it ontop of the 400x400 box and center it.
  10. use the path finder tool to cut the 120x120 box out of the 400x400 box and then take that 400x400 box and place it over your stars. crop them.
  11. take the newly cropped pattern box and place select it with the black arrow and drag it into your swatch book.
  12. create any kind of sized object and click on the fill swatch and your done.

  Have fun, I just felt like sharing that with everyone because its usefull to creating a pattern at any size and it took me 3 hours to figure out how to do it perfectly and it annoyed me that people were charging 250 for a plugin do it for you.

  Aug 27, 08, 12:40 p.m. – Permalink

• horton

  image of the end result?

  

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  Dog-earAug 27, 08, 12:42 p.m. – Permalink

• Iggyboo

  i'll do a few images for you guys.

  

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  Dog-earAug 27, 08, 12:45 p.m. – Permalink

• Georges

  can you make a guided tutorial with images and post it here,
  thanks

  

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  Dog-earAug 27, 08, 12:48 p.m. – Permalink

• hammerofdawn

  I would like to see images or it didn't happen

  

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  Dog-earAug 27, 08, 12:48 p.m. – Permalink

• Iggyboo

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  easy enough right?

  • u can also do this simply with the align palette.– dirtydesign1/2

    I used the align only to center the middle star vertically and horizontally. Also ....– Iggyboo2/2

  

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  Dog-earAug 27, 08, 12:57 p.m. – Permalink

• Iggyboo

  Also if you want to rotate that middle image 30 degrees or something. you will have to resize the image to 40x40 pixels because when you rotate the axis width will grow or shrink.

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  Good luck and back to work peace.

  J

  

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  Dog-earAug 27, 08, 1:04 p.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  Good effort, Iggyboo - I hope this inspires others to share their techniques and secret methods.

  • now if i can just get someone to show me how to overuse "unsharp mask"– OnesandZeros1/2

    but yeah, this is a good tutorial Iggy... we need more of these things here.– OnesandZeros2/2

  

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  Dog-earAug 27, 08, 1:12 p.m. – Permalink