Illustrator Q: Fill shape with pattern?
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- Noggin
Im sure im totally overlooking this but is it possible to fill a shape/object with a pattern like in PS?
- peezum0
It's the one thing illustrator can't do
- hahahhah N00B!styleplus
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- rodzilla0
create pattern. crop pattern at the repeated area with no fill no stroke outline, beneath pattern. Take that drop it into your swatches. create shape, click on pattern swatch. done.
- +1d_rek
- although illustrator sometimes handles patterns funky this wayd_rek
- not if you make the pattern correctlymonospaced
- johnnyklebitz0
Yes. Yes, it is.
- imavery0
not so much fill an object, but you could make a pattern, then duplicate it a few times to match the area that you want to fill, and then drop a mask on top to simulate the filling of your shape/object
- you could do that too, if you knew how...styleplus
- no, illustrator has the ability to fill with any pattern you specifymonospaced
- for the sake of bragging: I happen to know how to do it...styleplus
- styleplus0
yeah dude:
1) go to Window>Swatches to view the swatches panel.
2) drag whatever shape or bitmap into the swatches panel. This will create a new pattern.
3) select or create a new shape, then select your newly created pattern from the swatches panel
4) your new shape should be filled with your new pattern
- monospaced0
And if you want to transform the pattern along with the shape, select "Transform Both" from the dropdown menu in the Transform palette.
- horton0
^ or hold the tilde ~
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- new apple kb its a pain you have to hold shift aswell to access the ~horton
- d_rek0
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- Noggin0
Awesome, thanks guys, that worked.
If the shape object is already at an angle/has perspective can you align the pattern accordingly?
- you want to have skew the pattern I believe.rodzilla
- sorry that wasn't english, skew the pattern to fit your angle.rodzilla
- you'd have to transform them together into the perspective of your choicemonospaced
- Thx again mono.Noggin
- horton0
see above to rotate/move pattern. you can not distort/skew a pattern without expanding it
- sure you canmonospaced
- object>expandhorton
- you can definitely skew a shape that's been filled with a pattern and have the pattern skew with itmonospaced
- all without expandingmonospaced
- you can distort a pattern tile in use? news to me? CS5?horton
- yeah, hold down the ~ key as you skew the pattern, will work without expanding.rodzilla
- go figure. skew/shear you can. but i'll hold my ground with distort.horton
- I use CS3, and I do it all the time. You can even run 3D filters on patterns and have them translate accordinglymonospaced
- rodzilla0
you could also do this if you don't want to skew/distort your pattern by hand.