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Creating a pattern

Creating a pattern - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating a pattern

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- [Instructor] It is pretty easy to turn your Illustrator artwork into a pattern. So let's have a look at how we do that. Got a small piece of artwork up here in the top left, and I'm going to go up to the objects menu, come down to pattern and choose Make, I think there's a small informational telling me that it's been added to the Swatches panel, and I can see it over there in the panel. Okay, okay, and I'm taken into the pattern maker workspace, it's kind of like a special isolation mode, with just a couple of extra things along the top here in the gray bar, then we have the pattern Options dialog. So the first thing we might want to do here is give it a name. So I'm just going to call this geo maze, like so even though it's not really a maze. That's what I'm going to call it. And then I can choose the type of tile, which generates the repeats. Now, grid is the default and that…

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