Thank you so much. I've had illustrator for many years and been discouraged trying to learn it. Your lessons are teaching me so much that I feel confident making my own work now.
I’m so happy to hear that. I’ve got a lot of videos here so hopefully they will help you get started with Illustrator because it really is an amazing program. Best of luck with your learning.
How can I tie this in with creating a pattern for Spoonflower? Your other video was using CS6 Pattern Maker which I of course do not have. Not sure what I would export. The 750 pixel area?
Good question. You can now go to the Spoonflower video and start at the point where I drag the swatch out of the swatches panel. You'll see that I crop the image so that only the content inside the no fill no stroke rectangle shows. You will do this for your pattern. There's nothing different about your pattern having made it by hand rather than using the pattern make tool at that stage. I hope this helps. Let me know if you still have difficulties.
My head is swimming... so after making my pattern following this video, I can jump to minute marker 4:05 in the Spoonflower video and start there? I have never used that Fit to Artboard so I hope that CS5 has that option. Thank you for responding so quickly
Oh GOD!! FINALLY, Helen, I did it!!!!!!!! WhoHoo! Had some issues because the elements I had on the top left, wanted to be sent to the bottom. So in other words, whatever you have on top, even if it's the corner, have to be the same on the bottom. I was designing something different on the bottom, and Illustrator wasn't having any of that :-) Seems it uploaded just fine. Hallelujah, Happy Days! Now, to learn how to design for sites like RedBubble. Hope the procedure isn't that different
You're a lifesaver! I've been having such trouble since Adobe went to a subscription model, and 5.5 was the last time I bought the CS.
Glad I could help!
Thank you so much. I've had illustrator for many years and been discouraged trying to learn it. Your lessons are teaching me so much that I feel confident making my own work now.
I’m so happy to hear that. I’ve got a lot of videos here so hopefully they will help you get started with Illustrator because it really is an amazing program. Best of luck with your learning.
Thank you Helen, I have watched several videos on how to create repeat patterns, yours is the easiest to understand.
+Dawn Dais Thank you Dawn, I am glad this was helpful.
awesome thank you
You're welcome!
Thank you for this tutorial, clear and to the point. I really enjoyed it.
You're welcome, Thank you for the kind words and for stopping by the channel.
Thank you so much. This was so helpful. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
So happy to be of help
this tutorial was really very helpful. Thank you very much
You're welcome, I'm glad it was helpful. Thank you for stopping by my channel.
Thank You so much, this is a big help.
So happy to hear this!
Thank you so much. I've used Illustrator from last weekend. I have to make some stuff. It helps me very much. I appreciated that. Thank you!
You're Welcome, Thank you for stopping by my channel.
Thank you! this is very clear :)
Glad it was helpful!
You're a lifesaver :)
So happy to hear this.
Great! Still using CS5
I’m so glad this video was of help to you. There are still a lot of people using CS5 and I’m glad that I was able to assist.
thank you!
You're welcome, Thanks for visiting my channel.
How can I tie this in with creating a pattern for Spoonflower? Your other video was using CS6 Pattern Maker which I of course do not have. Not sure what I would export. The 750 pixel area?
Good question. You can now go to the Spoonflower video and start at the point where I drag the swatch out of the swatches panel. You'll see that I crop the image so that only the content inside the no fill no stroke rectangle shows. You will do this for your pattern. There's nothing different about your pattern having made it by hand rather than using the pattern make tool at that stage. I hope this helps. Let me know if you still have difficulties.
My head is swimming... so after making my pattern following this video, I can jump to minute marker 4:05 in the Spoonflower video and start there? I have never used that Fit to Artboard so I hope that CS5 has that option. Thank you for responding so quickly
Yes. That is exactly right!
Oh GOD!! FINALLY, Helen, I did it!!!!!!!! WhoHoo! Had some issues because the elements I had on the top left, wanted to be sent to the bottom. So in other words, whatever you have on top, even if it's the corner, have to be the same on the bottom.
I was designing something different on the bottom, and Illustrator wasn't having any of that :-)
Seems it uploaded just fine.
Hallelujah, Happy Days! Now, to learn how to design for sites like RedBubble. Hope the procedure isn't that different
THANKS A LOT! :D
Thanks for your kind comment and thanks for stopping by my channel.
Hi Helen, do you have a video showing this in Illustrator CS6?
+Angelica Miller Thanks for asking, Yes I do, here is a link: th-cam.com/video/tb3iIJ3krs4/w-d-xo.html - Let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you so much!!
I don't know if you are still getting messages from this but I can't get it to move a copy to the bottom
So how do you put the pattern in the library???? The most important part!!!!!
Good question - I have just made a video for you explaining this, it will go live US PT at 8am Tuesday 18th April. I hope this helps.
Awesome video thank you I'm working on a pattern on Instagram: imaloney76 feedback is welcome
Nice work on your pattern Ian - I thought it was really good.