pattern making
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- mattyd
anyone know how to make a pattern like the one at the top of the page?
http://frank151.typepad.com/fran…
would like to do something like this with a logo but seems fucking impossible.
you are all beautiful,
- _salisae_0
yeah. that's not too hard. are you working in illustrator? if so, copy paste in front and move it a certain amount across or down .. repeat repeat repeat
then you rotate them as a group and mask the area you desire
- TechVector0
Another way in Illustrator is to make your design, copy>paste it the distance you desire from the original> blend by specified steps (chose how many you want) > make> expand......
or not.
- monNom0
drag your logo into the swatch palette. You now have a pattern fill.
fill a shape with it, then get your rotate tool (hotkey R) and while holding tilde (~) rotate the object. it'll give you a bounding box to show you how the pattern is being transformed. Scale and shear work as well.
- k770
or in photoshop you can use the marquee tool to select your pattern area, edit>define pattern, create a pattern. and then go edit> fill - boom
- _salisae_0
do it monnom's way .. much better
don't you have to include a white box behind the logo to determine the width between each instance?
- k770
i think you'd have to... but i can never figure out swatches in illy - one day i will win.
- monNom0
yes, and no. you can put an unfilled bounding box around the artwork to add some padding...or a filled box if you want.
the nice thing about patterns is they keep their transforms, so you can get your scale and rotation set, then monkey with the spacing after the fact...
option-drag or alt-drag artwork onto the pattern swatch to update it.
- _salisae_0
cool beans
- monNom0
this might be useful:
- mattyd0
great! thank you all. it helped very much!
- Crouwel0
cheers, monnom!