I know this is an old video but just wanted to say I watched it before a design interview test to refresh myself and it made it so simple and easy, I cranked out that part of the test! Thanks!
@@EveryTuesday thanks mam I am from Pakistan. I watched our video very carefully and I gained lot of information to your video.your video is very helpful for me. But I confused 🤔🤔 I have one question? please reply
This video is already 5 years old but thank you so, so much! I studied textile design where we had to make tons to seamless patterns...however, no one taught us how to properly work with Illustrator so we spent hours making simple seamless patterns because we matched the seams by hand till it fit....in Photoshop nonetheless! The hours I could have saved on projects if Ihad known this method before! I'm actually starting my first job as a designer in a week so tutorials like these are a real life safer! Once again, thank you so so much!
This was a great tutorial and really helpful, especially the trick of moving the edge elements by the size of the art board to make them line up perfectly. One other technique regarding creating the pattern swatch: If you want to make it non-destructive (still editable) without saving a copy or duplicate of the original, instead of cropping it out, what you can do is copy the rectangle you used for the mask and background, then paste it behind everything and give it a stroke and fill of none. Then, select everything and drag it to the swatches palette. Illustrator treats the bottom rectangle with no fill or stroke as the pattern boundaries and will "crop" the tiles to that rectangle. Using this technique you don't even need to make the mask if you don't want to. Then, if you want to edit the pattern, you can just drag it's swatch back out onto the art board and make your changes, then drag it back into the swatches palette as a new pattern, or hold down the alt key and drag it on top of the original pattern swatch to overwrite it.
I have had SO many cute pattern ideas sitting around in my head, specifically to print on some apparel. I just didn't have the technical know-how. Over the years, I wrote them down in a notebook for when I had the time and means to learn. This just opened up a world of possibilities for me, I cannot express how happy I am right now!!
You can just use the align tools and make sure you have "align to artboard" selected when you want to make that background fit perfectly to the artboard. Two clicks and you're done.
This is the BEST pattern tutorial I've ever watched! Info delivered quickly & clearly. Tool locations are explained but at the right pace - not too fast not too long, and the video is short enough to adequately cover all topics. The tips at the end are ingenius about rescaling the pattern or extending the shape fill. The simple math explained and how to use the X + Y axes to type in the positive or negative values to shift the bleeding elements is a priceless tip I never knew! You're AMAZING!
This is really helpful esp. for people working in the apparel industry... so many patterns being used on garments these days. Very trendy, popular stuff!! Thank you for the awesome tutorial!
Nicely done, Teela! I learned what I came to learn without once going "HUH?!?"and having to pause and rewind the video. I am extremely critical when it comes to tutorials and you just knocked it out of the park with straightforward clarity and simplicity - with no annoying music going on at the beginning or during the relevant action!! BRAVO!!!
I have watched this video so many times over the past few years that I thought I should write to thank you for it. While I have the latest version of CC I still like to create swatches this way. And every time I forget a step I come back and watch this video.
This has literally changed my life! Total self-taught illustrator user over here and couldn't for the life of me, figure this out on my own. You are my hero.
One of the Best Seamless Pattern Tuts I've seen. I had a problem after making a Clipping Mask. I duplicated my design, moved it, then used the CROP Tool to get rid of edges. After close inspection of my design, there was distortion of individual elements. (curves out of wack, etc) I never figured it out, so I just imported the AI 3"x3" file into PS and used 'Define Pattern' option. I then opened a New 4000px X 4000px document, fill it with paint, then used the Pattern Overlay. The Seamless Texture looks PERFECT! Thank you.
Starting your video by showing the outcome should be pretty much standard, but everytime someone really does, I'm crying tears of joy. Thank you for this! Great tutorial btw.
THANK YOU so much for making the video. I can't believe the pain staking process I was using before to cut the seamless block. I am so appreciative of all the time you just saved me!!
Thank you so much! Best tutorial I've seen on this! I'm a complete beginner so it was really helpful that you included what the shortcuts were and where you could find them on the option panel.
Finally a tutorial that makes sense! I have watched hundreds of tutorials that always confuses me halfway through. This is by far the most useful and educational one so far. Thanks!
This is amazing, thank you so much, took me a little while to grasp as I was having issues with illustrator saying the file was too big to do the clipping mask but I got there in the end. This was my first attempt at making my own pattern on illustrator and this tutorial was incredibly helpful so thank you!!!!
This video is 7 years old but so useful. The explanations are very clear. Really appreciate that you have mentioned the shortkeys everytime you needed to use a tool or function.
So glad I found your TH-cam channel, have just subscribed to it. I'm studying media communicions, currently working on my bachelor degree and on a project including graphic design in the matter of a corporate visual identity, so all these videos of yours are sooo helpful! Thank you, will definitely return very often to your channel. Have a nice day!
Thank you a lot!!!!! This method turned out to be the only one that does not give a thin white stripe at the junction between the patterns !!! I suffered for 2 days until I found your lesson! THANK YOU!!!!!!
I've edited lots of royalty free patterns from Illustrator as patterns for fabric in my art, and I've made a seameless pattern in photoshop 2 years ago, and I find this helpful in general.
This is awesome and thank you for doing this. Quick question: I followed through and expanded my objects before cropping, but there's so many points that Illustrator just lags and crashes. I've tried doing this in outline view, I only have one layer so it's not a matter of turning things off...I've tried simplifying (though this changes the look too much), and I've killed other applications but to no avail. Do you have any suggestions for how to help it crop without crashing?
I was just going to write how much I loved hearing your voice when I noticed the previous comment said the same thing...wow, your voice is REALLY amazing for this type of tutorials! So many times I click on tutorials only to turn them off the instant I hear the voice, but in your case, it is absolutely mesmerizing!
I've been avoiding learning how to make patterns for possibly... years... and I'm so glad I chose your tutorial to finally learn this super valuable technique. Thank you for posting this (5 years ago!!!!!!) Helped me out a ton. :)
You won't have a seamless pattern if you only create a clipping mask. The swatch will be recognized for all of the elements within the mask so it's crucial that it's cropped for it to work correctly
Teela, you CAN have a seamless pattern if you only create a clipping mask. Just put the rectangle (with none stroke and none fill) behind all your pattern (which in clipping mask). And then place it to the swatches. Enjoy it ;)
Thx sista . It's such an pretty beautiful way to make seamless pattern and to arrange the result as easy. Because so far when I was done about my seamless pttrn I still use manually copy-paste side by side to make it to be wider page.... New brilliant idea to me.... Clippin' mas forever yeahhh!!!!
I wish your kit were free. Anyway, I'd love to give a similar pattern like this a try in CS6 but I have had some problems with white lines appearing in some of the patterns I make in the pattern maker. I have a feeling that anything that falls a bit out of the box that gives it that real seamless feel can cause those white lines. I just haven't figured a way around that. Soooo frustrating!
+Morgan Field ugh. I know - there's definitely some kind of Illustrator glitch that adobe hasn't quite figured out - sometimes there's a white line, sometimes there isn't. The new pattern tool gets rid of the possibility for white lines though - I've got that tutorial scheduled for early Feb so be on the lookout for it then! There a lot of free vector assets over on my blog, every-tuesday.com ;)
+Teela Cunningham (Every-Tuesday) I very much look forward to your tutorial on this huge issue for me. I don't want to sound picky but I don't want those white lines showing up on my monitor or in print. There has been some suggestions online on what to do about it but they don't work or they work but the quality is effected (e.g. turning anti-aliasing off in general preferences, keeping everything in the tile or the box or whatever you call it). Hopefully, your tutorial will provide solid answers to the glitch. And I hope adobe is working on this. Thanks! :)
Thank you! That was awesome. I've been a graphic designer for soooo many years but love how you can always learn something new - we can never know everything and that is the exciting thing about it. I'm inspired!
I think she may have an older version of Adobe, because I was trying to do it in the newer version and it didn't work for me. She never responded to my message about this issue.
I have the same feeling. I have three favorite graphics people (all women for some reason: Teela, Helen Bradley, and Laura Coyle) that help me to create beautiful stuff and they all seem to be caring and loving individuals that want everyone to find happiness in life. At least I know there are good people in this world...something for me to keep in mind when I get so down over tragic events where people hurt each other.
Great tutorial. I'm using CS3 and tried to do a repeat with a font-outlined as well as an embedded photo .psd with clipping path. I could not get the thing to crop the photos but the type and background was ok. After clicking on Crop tool it would mess the thing up- photo would vanish but the parts outside the artboard would still be there and the invisibles were still there. Any ideas?? I assume you can do repeats with photos??
+cuda426hemi I'm no Illustrator guru, but have you tried tracing the image using high fidelity photo and then expanding it? Should have tired it myself before writing this - sorry - but still having an issue with my swatch not filling the shape as hoped, so back to the drawing board for me.
Your logic no matter what else sounds perfect. I appreciate your response ! Good luck with the swatch thing! Your basic artboard/canvas size is the key.
I always follow these tutorials by switching between the actual application and the tutorial as we progress. Got as far as the cropping of the swatch, but no matter what I do, every time I hit the crop option, all it does is release the clipping mask? Confused...
+luvtodance2 Hmm - if you have any stroked elements in your design, you'll need to expand those before cropping - select them all, then go object > expand, then try cropping again :)
+Teela Cunningham (Every-Tuesday) Thank you so much for such a quick response. I actually had grabbed some shapes from the symbols collection quickly to use as I followed along and I did expand appearance on them, but today I will draw a few shapes of my own to use to experiment with. I use these patterns to cover very large areas like printed 16' panels for bar fronts and as large as 40' printed flooring for dance floors. I work in the area of Special Events where these are frequent requirements. I LOVED your tutorial as it was so clear and concise and easy to follow along. You make it seem so easy. Thank you again so very much - Cheers. PS - Went back in and "expanded" the shapes rather than expanding appearance and IT WORKED!
Not the Outline stroke option, but Object/Expand Appearance. ( The Expand option was greyed out in my AI, don't know why, but Expand appearance worked just fine )
Hi Teela, In the Pattern Swatch I keep getting hairlines and no matter what I do they are still there. I always make sure no artwork is past my box but they still show up would you know what I'm doing wrong? I'm using illustrator cs6.
+Erika Quinonez Hey Erika! Unfortunately, that's some kind of Illustrator glitch that just decides when to do that at will :( I have a pattern tool tut coming next month that will eliminate that completely if you have CS6 or newer - stay tuned! :)
I keep on getting seams?? This is so weird the first time I did it, it was fine. Then I tried on another pattern and there are seams all over. Am I missing something? Should I select all layers? Perhaps the file is corrupt?
Hello 👋 sis ,Thanks for your video. I am MURUGAN from India, Tamil Nadu.and your videos always helping me. Again I thank you very much 💕 once again keep going always ☺️
There's no need to do in such a complicated way, simply use "Object->Pattern->Create", click the "pattern style tool" button to adjust the border of the background rectangle, keep the front objects partially out of the rectangle edge, you will get a seamless pattern.
very awesome video! i wanted to create a pattern out of jpegs. it all worked up until the pathfinder, naturally. but then i just arranged my squares by hand! thanks a lot
I am right now going into branding and packaging design, really this was so helpul! Ive seen like so many complicated videos on pattern design before this. I understood this in one go, thank you so much❤❤
Thank you so much! Any time I try to do something easy with Illustrator - I just watch by our channel and I finf exactly what I was searching! And every time I learn an new hot-key that is really helpful! Thank you so much!
Amazing. You are amazing!! I have watches so many tutorial videos and not once been able to follow it 100%, or i forget it or cannot understand my notes etc, but with yours you actually explain everything, reasons why, what happens if etc. so from the bottom of my heart thank you so so much, and ive just realised this was released 6 years ago so hope your still active lol. x
OMG I'm obsessed... you explain things so clearly and don't BS around.... thank you so much!! I learnt a ton. Question- let's say I want to change the colors of the elements and to see how it affects the overall pattern- is there a way to do that? Like... I want Leaf A to be darker.
+Sbeth85 hey! Thanks for watching! You can use the magic wand tool to select like-colored elements (keyboard shortcut 'y') then just recolor from there :)
Hey Teela thank you so much for this tutorial it really helped me today cuz I had no clue about what to do for a project I was working on, so I decided to watch your video and I totally understood what you explained on how to make a pattern in illustrator and it went really good. Easy and fun.
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Thank you so much! I always forget to do this, but now since you pointed a lot of precise steps, I will never forget it again :)
Hi Teela! I have already watched your video and thought it was amazing! Today I was working on a pattern and got stuck - come back here and your video totally helped me! Thanks again!
Definitely deserves a like. You don't have to do the whole crop thingamajig. ;-) As long as you have a non filled box at the bottom of your pattern, once you make it a pattern, illustrator sees that as the bounding box. Give it a try. This tut was really helpful Teela. THANKS!
Fabulous tutorial. I'm using this to help me create patterns for my surface design degree. Excellent explanations and really simple to grasp. Thank you!
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I know this is an old video but just wanted to say I watched it before a design interview test to refresh myself and it made it so simple and easy, I cranked out that part of the test! Thanks!
SO awesome! Totally made my day with this!
@@EveryTuesday Got the job :D!
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@@EveryTuesday thanks mam I am from Pakistan.
I watched our video very carefully and I gained lot of information to your video.your video is very helpful for me.
But I confused 🤔🤔 I have one question? please reply
This video is already 5 years old but thank you so, so much! I studied textile design where we had to make tons to seamless patterns...however, no one taught us how to properly work with Illustrator so we spent hours making simple seamless patterns because we matched the seams by hand till it fit....in Photoshop nonetheless! The hours I could have saved on projects if Ihad known this method before!
I'm actually starting my first job as a designer in a week so tutorials like these are a real life safer! Once again, thank you so so much!
This was a great tutorial and really helpful, especially the trick of moving the edge elements by the size of the art board to make them line up perfectly. One other technique regarding creating the pattern swatch: If you want to make it non-destructive (still editable) without saving a copy or duplicate of the original, instead of cropping it out, what you can do is copy the rectangle you used for the mask and background, then paste it behind everything and give it a stroke and fill of none. Then, select everything and drag it to the swatches palette. Illustrator treats the bottom rectangle with no fill or stroke as the pattern boundaries and will "crop" the tiles to that rectangle. Using this technique you don't even need to make the mask if you don't want to. Then, if you want to edit the pattern, you can just drag it's swatch back out onto the art board and make your changes, then drag it back into the swatches palette as a new pattern, or hold down the alt key and drag it on top of the original pattern swatch to overwrite it.
This helped a lot! with a huge file the crop tool might not work and I couldn't figure it out. Thanks!
omg thank you for this! The crop tool was not behaving for me like it did in this tutorial at all, you saved me lol
I have had SO many cute pattern ideas sitting around in my head, specifically to print on some apparel. I just didn't have the technical know-how. Over the years, I wrote them down in a notebook for when I had the time and means to learn. This just opened up a world of possibilities for me, I cannot express how happy I am right now!!
Yay! I'm so glad!
You can just use the align tools and make sure you have "align to artboard" selected when you want to make that background fit perfectly to the artboard. Two clicks and you're done.
This is the BEST pattern tutorial I've ever watched! Info delivered quickly & clearly. Tool locations are explained but at the right pace - not too fast not too long, and the video is short enough to adequately cover all topics. The tips at the end are ingenius about rescaling the pattern or extending the shape fill. The simple math explained and how to use the X + Y axes to type in the positive or negative values to shift the bleeding elements is a priceless tip I never knew! You're AMAZING!
Aww thanks so much! I'm so glad it was helpful! 💕
This is really helpful esp. for people working in the apparel industry... so many patterns being used on garments these days. Very trendy, popular stuff!! Thank you for the awesome tutorial!
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Nicely done, Teela! I learned what I came to learn without once going "HUH?!?"and having to pause and rewind the video. I am extremely critical when it comes to tutorials and you just knocked it out of the park with straightforward clarity and simplicity - with no annoying music going on at the beginning or during the relevant action!! BRAVO!!!
I'm so glad! Thanks for checking it out!
That +3 thing on the x axis placement just changed the game for me!
Awesome! Love hearing that :)
Me too!! I just sat there stunned for a bit....
Me too... so helpful!!
how do you open those details though??
when i select my object the x and y coordinates don't automatically appear in the top bar
indeed, just learn this trick from this video! thankss
I have watched this video so many times over the past few years that I thought I should write to thank you for it. While I have the latest version of CC I still like to create swatches this way. And every time I forget a step I come back and watch this video.
Same here.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. This was great, its hard to think at 12 am in the morning, but you made my seamless pattern making easy!! woohoo.
This has literally changed my life! Total self-taught illustrator user over here and couldn't for the life of me, figure this out on my own. You are my hero.
Aww yay! Made my day with that comment :)
Awesome tutorial! Straightforward, concise, well explained and complete. Great work!
+Riccardo Zaffalon Thanks so much! :)
I concur.
yep, so easy to follow her, just keeping in mind to use mac prompts instead... ease of voice is the key to tutorials!
One of the Best Seamless Pattern Tuts I've seen. I had a problem after making a Clipping Mask. I duplicated my design, moved it, then used the CROP Tool to get rid of edges. After close inspection of my design, there was distortion of individual elements. (curves out of wack, etc) I never figured it out, so I just imported the AI 3"x3" file into PS and used 'Define Pattern' option. I then opened a New 4000px X 4000px document, fill it with paint, then used the Pattern Overlay. The Seamless Texture looks PERFECT! Thank you.
im in a art college and boi your videos help me more than my teacher, thank yiu
Starting your video by showing the outcome should be pretty much standard, but everytime someone really does, I'm crying tears of joy. Thank you for this! Great tutorial btw.
I was looking for how to crop vectors, and found it here plus a whole lot more. Thanks for sharing the know-how!
Me too.
Thank youuu so much
THANK YOU so much for making the video. I can't believe the pain staking process I was using before to cut the seamless block. I am so appreciative of all the time you just saved me!!
Thank you so much! Best tutorial I've seen on this! I'm a complete beginner so it was really helpful that you included what the shortcuts were and where you could find them on the option panel.
Finally a tutorial that makes sense! I have watched hundreds of tutorials that always confuses me halfway through. This is by far the most useful and educational one so far. Thanks!
Awesome to hear! Thanks for checking it out!
This is amazing, thank you so much, took me a little while to grasp as I was having issues with illustrator saying the file was too big to do the clipping mask but I got there in the end. This was my first attempt at making my own pattern on illustrator and this tutorial was incredibly helpful so thank you!!!!
This video is 7 years old but so useful. The explanations are very clear. Really appreciate that you have mentioned the shortkeys everytime you needed to use a tool or function.
So glad I found your TH-cam channel, have just subscribed to it. I'm studying media communicions, currently working on my bachelor degree and on a project including graphic design in the matter of a corporate visual identity, so all these videos of yours are sooo helpful! Thank you, will definitely return very often to your channel. Have a nice day!
Thank you a lot!!!!! This method turned out to be the only one that does not give a thin white stripe at the junction between the patterns !!! I suffered for 2 days until I found your lesson! THANK YOU!!!!!!
Great tutorial the x y axis thing was new to me it really help me making pattern now. Thanks for this lesson very very helpful !!!!
+IBEX design awesome to hear! So glad I could help :)
This was really helpful. For a different reason in terms pattern continuity. Really appreciate the insight!
This is the best tutorial on pattern making I've ever seen, thank you, thank you! :)
I've edited lots of royalty free patterns from Illustrator as patterns for fabric in my art, and I've made a seameless pattern in photoshop 2 years ago, and I find this helpful in general.
I LOVE YOUR VOICE! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
+Qin Liu Thanks! :)
you're so good to explain, thank you!
The best tutorial I've seen about patterns in illustrator
This is awesome and thank you for doing this. Quick question: I followed through and expanded my objects before cropping, but there's so many points that Illustrator just lags and crashes. I've tried doing this in outline view, I only have one layer so it's not a matter of turning things off...I've tried simplifying (though this changes the look too much), and I've killed other applications but to no avail. Do you have any suggestions for how to help it crop without crashing?
7 years later and this is still my go-to how to make a pattern video when i forget!
How cool! Wish you had been my instructor for Illustrator!
+April Stark ha! Awesome compliment :) thanks for watching!
NO!!!!!!!!! I have been watching tutorials for YEARS and I could never get it! How was it this easy all these years!? THANKS, Teela GURL!
Ha! Glad you found it!
Inspiring tutorial and east to follow!!
I was just going to write how much I loved hearing your voice when I noticed the previous comment said the same thing...wow, your voice is REALLY amazing for this type of tutorials! So many times I click on tutorials only to turn them off the instant I hear the voice, but in your case, it is absolutely mesmerizing!
+Wilheminia haha aww, thanks so much! I'm glad it makes it easy to follow :)
Amazing thank you!
I've been avoiding learning how to make patterns for possibly... years... and I'm so glad I chose your tutorial to finally learn this super valuable technique. Thank you for posting this (5 years ago!!!!!!) Helped me out a ton. :)
why does my patter eliminates when I click on Crop/Pathfinder ?
I have this issue too!
You won't have a seamless pattern if you only create a clipping mask. The swatch will be recognized for all of the elements within the mask so it's crucial that it's cropped for it to work correctly
After selecting clipping mask my repeat is getting erased. Please help!
Teela, you CAN have a seamless pattern if you only create a clipping mask. Just put the rectangle (with none stroke and none fill) behind all your pattern (which in clipping mask). And then place it to the swatches. Enjoy it ;)
Thx sista . It's such an pretty beautiful way to make seamless pattern and to arrange the result as easy. Because so far when I was done about my seamless pttrn I still use manually copy-paste side by side to make it to be wider page.... New brilliant idea to me.... Clippin' mas forever yeahhh!!!!
I wish your kit were free. Anyway, I'd love to give a similar pattern like this a try in CS6 but I have had some problems with white lines appearing in some of the patterns I make in the pattern maker. I have a feeling that anything that falls a bit out of the box that gives it that real seamless feel can cause those white lines. I just haven't figured a way around that. Soooo frustrating!
+Morgan Field ugh. I know - there's definitely some kind of Illustrator glitch that adobe hasn't quite figured out - sometimes there's a white line, sometimes there isn't. The new pattern tool gets rid of the possibility for white lines though - I've got that tutorial scheduled for early Feb so be on the lookout for it then! There a lot of free vector assets over on my blog, every-tuesday.com ;)
+Teela Cunningham (Every-Tuesday) I very much look forward to your tutorial on this huge issue for me. I don't want to sound picky but I don't want those white lines showing up on my monitor or in print. There has been some suggestions online on what to do about it but they don't work or they work but the quality is effected (e.g. turning anti-aliasing off in general preferences, keeping everything in the tile or the box or whatever you call it). Hopefully, your tutorial will provide solid answers to the glitch. And I hope adobe is working on this. Thanks! :)
Thank you! That was awesome. I've been a graphic designer for soooo many years but love how you can always learn something new - we can never know everything and that is the exciting thing about it. I'm inspired!
this is so awesome. thank you for teaching us this!
Thanks for checking it out! :)
I've referenced this video so many times when doing both personal and professional projects. Thank you for your clear and valuable tips!
That makes me so happy! Thank you!
I did everything but not working =/ when i try to use the pathfinder doesn't cut around, my background appears in top of everything ..
+Andressa Lima had the same issue. I've just emailed her about the problem soooo, I am expecting a solution when she replies :) Will let you know.
+Tessa Hall same happens to mee. hope we can solve it . Cheers!
Did you have a solution? Im struggling since forever 😭
Never got an answer back
I think she may have an older version of Adobe, because I was trying to do it in the newer version and it didn't work for me. She never responded to my message about this issue.
you are one of the most peaceful tutorial-creators :D i think im gonna call and forgive some old enemies right now :P
I have the same feeling. I have three favorite graphics people (all women for some reason: Teela, Helen Bradley, and Laura Coyle) that help me to create beautiful stuff and they all seem to be caring and loving individuals that want everyone to find happiness in life. At least I know there are good people in this world...something for me to keep in mind when I get so down over tragic events where people hurt each other.
Great tutorial. I'm using CS3 and tried to do a repeat with a font-outlined as well as an embedded photo .psd with clipping path. I could not get the thing to crop the photos but the type and background was ok. After clicking on Crop tool it would mess the thing up- photo would vanish but the parts outside the artboard would still be there and the invisibles were still there. Any ideas?? I assume you can do repeats with photos??
+cuda426hemi I'm no Illustrator guru, but have you tried tracing the image using high fidelity photo and then expanding it? Should have tired it myself before writing this - sorry - but still having an issue with my swatch not filling the shape as hoped, so back to the drawing board for me.
Your logic no matter what else sounds perfect. I appreciate your response ! Good luck with the swatch thing! Your basic artboard/canvas size is the key.
You have to expand it before you crop it.
I have watched this 10 times now since I first found it. Excellent demo. Thank you!
I always follow these tutorials by switching between the actual application and the tutorial as we progress. Got as far as the cropping of the swatch, but no matter what I do, every time I hit the crop option, all it does is release the clipping mask? Confused...
+luvtodance2 Hmm - if you have any stroked elements in your design, you'll need to expand those before cropping - select them all, then go object > expand, then try cropping again :)
+Teela Cunningham (Every-Tuesday) Thank you so much for such a quick response. I actually had grabbed some shapes from the symbols collection quickly to use as I followed along and I did expand appearance on them, but today I will draw a few shapes of my own to use to experiment with. I use these patterns to cover very large areas like printed 16' panels for bar fronts and as large as 40' printed flooring for dance floors. I work in the area of Special Events where these are frequent requirements. I LOVED your tutorial as it was so clear and concise and easy to follow along. You make it seem so easy. Thank you again so very much - Cheers. PS - Went back in and "expanded" the shapes rather than expanding appearance and IT WORKED!
BRILLIANT! I was SO EXCITED when I filled my box with the pattern!! Made me so happy! Finally figured it out thanks to YOU! lol
Tried outlined shapes and crop made a mess, any ideas how to solve this?
Not the Outline stroke option, but Object/Expand Appearance. ( The Expand option was greyed out in my AI, don't know why, but Expand appearance worked just fine )
thank you
I've watched so many videos today as i was struggling with getting the proper way to clip mask. And your explanation was so helpful. Thank you!
Hi Teela, In the Pattern Swatch I keep getting hairlines and no matter what I do they are still there. I always make sure no artwork is past my box but they still show up would you know what I'm doing wrong? I'm using illustrator cs6.
+Erika Quinonez Hey Erika! Unfortunately, that's some kind of Illustrator glitch that just decides when to do that at will :( I have a pattern tool tut coming next month that will eliminate that completely if you have CS6 or newer - stay tuned! :)
+Teela Cunningham (Every-Tuesday) Thank you! I'll be here :D
Which one is the new tutorial to get rid of the hairlines??
YOU 👏🏻ARE 👏🏻AMAZING!!! I couldn’t figure out how to get them to line up correctly!! Thank yoooooouuuuuuu!!
I keep on getting seams??
This is so weird the first time I did it, it was fine. Then I tried on another pattern and there are seams all over. Am I missing something? Should I select all layers? Perhaps the file is corrupt?
It's because you have the outline set up
What you mean? A see white seam too. :/
it is an issue with adobe, it's not really there, do you mean the white squares?
YourFavoriteTwinzz yeah, the limits of the squares. If I come to print this will they be visible?
it just happen the same to me :/ those lines are annoying!!
thanks for teaching us, I'm a graphic design student. I am watching your channel everyday, it's so useful. Nice to have you with us.
when I click Crop every things spread out TT
Hello 👋 sis ,Thanks for your video.
I am MURUGAN from India, Tamil Nadu.and your videos always helping me. Again I thank you very much 💕 once again keep going always ☺️
There's no need to do in such a complicated way, simply use "Object->Pattern->Create", click the "pattern style tool" button to adjust the border of the background rectangle, keep the front objects partially out of the rectangle edge, you will get a seamless pattern.
just tried this and mine are not seamless, what am I doing wrong. has a huge space between
Fantastic tutorial. Seamless patterns make sense for the first time ever. Well done.
i am also good in this but that is great, your way off teaching is so much digestible. thanks again
very awesome video! i wanted to create a pattern out of jpegs. it all worked up until the pathfinder, naturally. but then i just arranged my squares by hand! thanks a lot
I am right now going into branding and packaging design, really this was so helpul! Ive seen like so many complicated videos on pattern design before this. I understood this in one go, thank you so much❤❤
This is an amazingly clear and concise and I keep coming back as a refresher over and over.
Thank you so much! Any time I try to do something easy with Illustrator - I just watch by our channel and I finf exactly what I was searching! And every time I learn an new hot-key that is really helpful! Thank you so much!
Really helpful and straightforward...so many videos about this are totally confusing. Thank you!
Why did I not see this video yesterday when I was having a terrible time creating print swatch?! Gosh! You made it so easy! Subscribed! 👍🏻👏
This tutorial is BY FAR the best I have found/seen! Thank you so very much!
Thanks so much for checking it out! Happy to hear!
Wow! this video is from 2015, and I just learned this now in 2020! Thank you so much, Teela!
Btw, may I know why did you make a clipping mask?
I love this tutorial. Still holds up today in 2020. I was doing stylised backgrounds and saved variations of the same pattern. Great save. Thanks!
Omg! This is so helpful. I loved how you taught. The artist in me was so happy to see the magic moment!
Amazing explanation! I love how you went thru all the small details and steps on how to make a pattern. Great job!
awesome video....there's simply no better way to explain this....thank you
you totally saved my first portfolio project with this video, cuz i forgot how to do almost all of it. THANK YOU!!!!
My first step into learning how to design my own fabric prints. Such a great video! Thanks so much! Going to search all of your others now.
I come back and watch this video. I don't make many patterns so I keep forgetting but this is a go to. Thank you. Very helpful and clear.
Thanks so much!
@@EveryTuesday Back again!!!!
This tutorial was very thorough and I really feel comfortable moving forward with my fabric designs. Thank you for sharing your expertise.
love the tip on how to set pattern straight after stretching the canvas. now subscribed!
The smartest and easiest way to crop the pattern ever 😍✨
thaaaaanks honey 💕💕
Great video. One can know how a software works, but it is another to teach so others can understand. You have done both, thank you!
So glad it was helpful, thank you!
i finally learned with one video which is yours .Thank you so much
you are a fantastic instructor and thank you for sharing your talents.
Thanks so much for watching!
Amazing. You are amazing!! I have watches so many tutorial videos and not once been able to follow it 100%, or i forget it or cannot understand my notes etc, but with yours you actually explain everything, reasons why, what happens if etc. so from the bottom of my heart thank you so so much, and ive just realised this was released 6 years ago so hope your still active lol. x
Thanks so much for this! It really means a lot!
THANK YOU!!! You saved my graphics class assignment!!!
So far the best illustrator tutorial video i have ever seen!!!
Thank you so much!!
Looking forward to seeing your next videos !!!
OMG I'm obsessed... you explain things so clearly and don't BS around.... thank you so much!! I learnt a ton. Question- let's say I want to change the colors of the elements and to see how it affects the overall pattern- is there a way to do that? Like... I want Leaf A to be darker.
+Sbeth85 hey! Thanks for watching! You can use the magic wand tool to select like-colored elements (keyboard shortcut 'y') then just recolor from there :)
+Teela Cunningham (Every-Tuesday) thanks!!
Extremely helpful. Thank you Teela!
I'm always doing patterns and constantly face this issue! Thank you!!!
Awesome video Every it is still relevant in 2021!
This was best seamless pattern tutorial I've watched on TH-cam. So clear and easy to understand! :) Thank you very much for the tutorial Teela!
+honeyberry tree yay! So happy to hear! Thanks for checking it out!
Hey Teela thank you so much for this tutorial it really helped me today cuz I had no clue about what to do for a project I was working on, so I decided to watch your video and I totally understood what you explained on how to make a pattern in illustrator and it went really good. Easy and fun.
Thank you so much! I always forget to do this, but now since you pointed a lot of precise steps, I will never forget it again :)
Hi Teela! I have already watched your video and thought it was amazing! Today I was working on a pattern and got stuck - come back here and your video totally helped me! Thanks again!
Old tutorial but very well presented, covers things at a nice pace and covers everything needed. Excellent work and thank you.
Definitely deserves a like. You don't have to do the whole crop thingamajig. ;-) As long as you have a non filled box at the bottom of your pattern, once you make it a pattern, illustrator sees that as the bounding box. Give it a try. This tut was really helpful Teela. THANKS!
Nice! Thanks for the tip!
The best tutorial ever.
Is way easier that I thought, I used for my cover and looks fantastic thank you!
Thanks for the great info! I have been playing around with changing sketches into vector art and have never had a need to make a pattern. Too cool.
Fabulous tutorial. I'm using this to help me create patterns for my surface design degree. Excellent explanations and really simple to grasp. Thank you!
This is the best tutorial I've ever seen for pattern making.