A pattern is a repeating unit of shape, typically a small, repeating and tileable element. Most patterns are based on repetition and periodicity while others use magnification and scaling. Patterns are generally good for creating uniform backgrounds.
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How to specify a repeating pattern for textile printing
I've tried searching for an answer to this, but I have no idea what terms to even search for.
I'm creating the artwork for a repeating pattern that is going to be printed on a large quantity of ...
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How to graphically represent customer flow in indoors environmnets?
I'd like to know how can I represent human streams and paths in indoors facilities. Where to are people moving? How do they move and in which proportions?
Something like Aaron Koblin's Flight ...
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How to create a fabric pattern
I would like to create a fabric pattern, like this one:
I'm not very experienced in graphics design.
Of course, I understand that you can't lead me through the whole process, but I would be ...
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How do I drain this pattern of color to add it?
I'd like to add the below leather pattern effect to the bookmark I have made below that:
The bookmark is simply white pixels with some layer effects added. How do I "drain" the texture of colour ...
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Exporting a Pattern to Image in Photoshop
I am designing a website and in the background I am using a pattern that is done by somebody else.
Now while slicing, is there anyway to find and select the exact dimensions of the pattern that the ...
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How to fill shirt patterns into a shirt silhouette with realistic form “twist”?
I currently have xxx amount of patterns that I want to apply to a shirt silhouette. My challenge is that I naturally want to apply the pattern with realistic "twist" and form on arms, collar etc.
So ...
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Is there a name for abstract pattern with lots of parallel lines and subtle curves?
Sort of like a spirograph? Like that old Mistify screensaver for windows. I feel like it shows up a lot as an abstract shape in the background of things.
Trying to think of the best way to make one ...
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How to make a line in illustrator with $ signs
The behavior I'm looking for is similar to how one can make a path line dashed. Except, instead of being dashes, I'd love to make it show $ signs. Thanks for your help!
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How to find a texture for a background image for website?
I am looking for a texture pattern for an image that is similar to the one Path.com uses:
https://www.path.com/images/about/bg.gif
I want a similar image pattern so i can use it as a background ...
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How to create a pattern or tiles from rotated elements
I have a geometric pattern – say, a cross:
Which I want to repeat with some overlap and tile … easy:
The blue square marks the 100×100 px unit tile.
However, here comes the catch: I want to ...
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Does anybody know a tutorial for designing the Mountain Lion background pattern?
Does anybody know a tutorial for designing the OS X Mountain Lion background pattern? I am referring to this commonly used background pattern:
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Tutorial on how to create a flowing thread
I'm looking for a tutorial to create wavy flowing threads. Like this:
I'm open to tutorials in Photoshop, GIMP, or any freeware image manipulation program. We have a copy of PS. I'm not sure if ...
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Can I stroke a line with a pattern in illustrator?
I have a diagram with many colour-coded lines and a key to which colour means what: red line = electricity cable; blue line = gas pipe etc.
This is inaccessible for colour-blind people.
I would ...
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What layout and interface elements work well for a control panel-style app?
I'm working on a web-based app that's similar to a control panel, with lots of different settings and features to configure. The challenge is making it easy for users to find what they want without ...
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Can I resize the texture pattern that applied via Illustrator graphic styles?
Can I resize the texture pattern that applied via Illustrator graphic styles? And if not, is there any workaround to achieve this?
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How can I create a half-circle patterned background in photoshop?
Have a look at this website: http://owltastic.com/extras.html - in particular, look at the topmost part of the page. You can see a small background the bottom of which forms half circles. The same ...
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Do most web designers make their own textures?
I'm a web developer by training who is branching into UI/UX design. One of the things my design work lacks compared to experienced designers is subtle use of texture, such as on these sites: ...
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How can I make a Tartan Design in Adobe Illustrator
I generated on the internet this tartan design:
Now I want to get this design as a vector graphic built in Adobe Illustrator. Is there a trick to get 45 degree lines on the squares?
Or does ...
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How can I color a pattern in Inkscape?
How can I color a pattern in Inkscape without creating a custom pattern? I guess this should be possible. But I can't manage this :-(
I draw a square. --> I get a square filled with a color (green). ...
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Photoshop effect shape tweening
Which is the faster way to replicate this effect in Photoshop with those light green squares having a shape tween to little dot?
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Problem opening pattern file in photoshop cs5
Pattern:
Link to pattern.
I downloaded this pattern from the internet but all the included patterns show as blank tiles in preset manager. Any tips on how to get these to show? (I have ...
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Filling object with pattern in inkscape
I've figured out how to fill a rectangle object with a bitmap pattern:
File->Import. To import the pattern file
Then, select the pattern and do Objects->Pattern->Objects To Pattern
And finally, ...
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Using a pattern to cut out areas from a group of shapes in Illustrator
I have an image that's been image traced. All I want to do is cut out horizontal stripes out of the image.
Since I want to cut out a lot of evenly spaced stripes, I thought the easiest way would be ...
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Creating a circle following a pattern
I'm trying to come up with a new logo for my tireshop, and I'm trying to create a tire in Photoshop. I really like the outline of this one:
How is a circle outline like this created? I know how to ...
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How to edit the photoshop patterns?
I wonder if there is a possibility to edit the source image of the patterns from the preset manager in photoshop. On right click on a pattern the only options are Delete Pattern and Rename Pattern.
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How to recreate this background in photoshop for use in a mobile app? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do so many app menus get that finished textured look?
I'm still a beginner, but I really like this texture and have been trying for hours to recreate it.
Question: ...
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Circular patterns
I'm trying to create something that looks like this:
I can do the blue lines easily enough but I can't seem to get the grey 'circular diamonds' right.
No matter what I do, be it a diamond shape ...
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Change colour of pattern file
Can Photoshop pattern files be used so that the colours in the pattern are changed?
If so, can you tell me how I do this with this pattern file in Photoshop Elements and/or Adobe Fireworks? (I don't ...
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How do you create tiny patterns that look good
Whenever i have tried making tiny patterns, like 10 x 10 pixels, only things that i have ever been able to make look good is only diagonal lines. Other than that i have no idea. I suppose it has go to ...
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Where should I start learning the skills required for creating textures and patterns?
I am a software engineer but I also like becoming a good graphics designer but I don't know where to start.
I especially like mastering the skills necessary for designing textures and patterns but I ...
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Pattern File Does Not Function Properly in Adobe Illustrator CS5
So I learned Adobe Illustrator CS5 (Say 10%). I have these two files which I downloaded from the net. They are patterns files for animals skins.
The first file is named "Animals_skins.ai" and is ...
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Printing non-Pantone colours
I am wanting to get a design printed on cotton laminate. Is it possible to get non-pantone colours printed? Everyone I've spoken to so far says yes but then says maybe not. I can't get a straight ...
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What's the best way to create a subtle, barely noticeable texture? [closed]
Using Gimp (or other free software), how would I go about creating a subtle, "mild" texture, like the green in the header at forrst, or the gray in the background of the backbone.js home page?
Those ...
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Scaling Pattern Fills in Inkscape
I would like to give an object a striped fill, where the stripes are thin and dense. I chose "stripes 1 : 2" from the Pattern Fill menu but the pattern was too coarse. Online help suggested that after ...
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How can I make patterns visible when I am using A4 size layers in gimp?
I have this small problem that anytime I wanna make a good quality design in A4 the bucket fill of patterns is hardly visible. How can I make patterns adjust to the size of the layer?
For ...
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Photomerge on layers instead of files to create seamless pattern
I'd like to create a seamless pattern from the image below:
I can cut out a rectangle and attempt to tile it but it doesn't quite line up:
I know photomerge works really well for creating ...
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Replicating a pattern in Photoshop
How would I go about replicating it in Photoshop, possibly with a different background color than this gray-brownish one? Of course, it would be best if the pattern could be on its separate layer, ...
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Is there a way to edit en existing pattern in photoshop [duplicate]
I opened a new file and created my pattern, selected all and defined pattern. Then I closed the file without saving it and then used the pattern - great.
Now is there a way to make changes to that ...
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Creating Patterns in Illustrator CS5
I'm trying to follow this tutorial to create an iPhone from scratch in Illustrator. I'm onto step 18 and cannot seem to create the pattern needed.
My problem is this, after creating the layout of ...
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Haltone pattern within InDesign [closed]
One of QuarkXpress features I used a lot in the mid-nineties was the ability to apply an halftone pattern to any bitmap import. It was unbelievably effective when printing black&white graffiti ...
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How can I make a 30 degree pattern?
I would like to make a simple line pattern rotated at 30 degrees, but no matter what I try I can't make it repeat itself without the lines being cut. Is this possible to do?
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What is the name/type of this pattern?
This is a pretty popular background pattern in web/graphic design and I'd love to find different but similar variations of it. What would I search for to find such patterns?
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waves, tide minimal effect.. some ideas on to improve a attraction “hotspot”
Some advise is wanted from you great guys and gals on the below image.
the idea is to represent a "hot spot" of "waves" where your eyes are drawn into.
This concept makes you feel like clicking the ...
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How are simple textures like this made?
I've realized that simple textures like the one used on this site:
..add a lot to the look of a page. How are they made though? I'm not very experienced in Photoshop, but I can't imagine what tool ...
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Generate Parallel lines in Pixelmator
I need to generate parallel lines with gap of 18px in Pixelmator for the purpose of baseline. Is there any quick way like transform in Illustrator or pattern in PS? Is it possible to generate guides ...
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Tiling seamless diagonal lines
I'm working on a tile-based game, and I'd like to have diagonal lines for (32x32) tiles. The problem is, whenever you tile them, they look like this:
How do I make it seamlessly tile?
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How to edit a closed shape drawn by Path Tool in GIMP?
I created a custom shape with custom pattern with the following steps:
Drawing the border lines with Path Tool
Making a closed shape by Selection from Path
Selecting the closed shape with Magic Wand ...
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I have a Photoshop .pat file, but I don't have Photoshop
I bought some textured patterns I'd like to use in an iOS app I'm developing, but they're in .pat and .mxp formats. I don't own any of the Adobe apps (Photoshop, Fireworks, inDesign, whatever).
Can I ...
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Inkscape: bitmap pattern filling - 1px line around every tile
I want to fill an object with a bitmap pattern.
Instead of perfectly connecting, there is this 1 pixel transparent line around each "tile" of the filled object.
The same problem was described here: ...
