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How to repeat automatically seamless pattern in Photoshop?
Well you can actually make it a pattern in Photoshop.
With the tile open, select all and choose Edit > Define Pattern. Then it's a pattern just like all the other built in Photoshop patterns.
If ...
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Generate colorful streamline pattern (using FOSS)
This is for GIMP
Start with something like an A5 canvas size
Create a new brush like this
Create a new Paint Dynamic preset, and set the matrix as follows
Increase the size of the brush as you like,...
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How do I create this circle pattern in illustrator?
Select the overlapping shapes and use Divide in the Pathfinder palette to chop the shapes into pieces:
That will look something like this:
Then select the appropriate pieces and use Unite in the ...
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How did Escher make his tesselations?
With a pattern.
In this case a 3 axis grid (triangular).
Once you know what to draw on each piece, you need to repeat this.
You can have and use sub-patterns or smaller ones to be more exact.
These ...
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Create dotted circles in Illustrator
You could script something to generate these but it's easy enough with a couple of circles, depending on the level of control and precision you need.
This is just a bunch of concentric circles with a ...
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How do I create this circle pattern in illustrator?
You can't really have solid shapes like that overlapping above and below different parts of the same shape. What I normally do is simply duplicate the shape. You then have one for the "behind" parts ...
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Illustrator: how to fill shapes with a 45 degree line pattern?
Use a pattern...
There are a bunch of line patterns loaded with Illustrator by default (Open Swatch Library → Patterns → Basic Graphics → Basic Graphics Lines).
You can use them as a ...
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Generate colorful streamline pattern (using FOSS)
Here' my approach for Gimp:
Used an interesting photo with colours I liked
Source: Wikimedia - New York Times Square
Chose a region of interest from this photo
Increased saturation, contrast, and (...
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Does anyone know how to create this kind of pattern design in Illustrator or Photoshop?
To create such organic looking shapes, it's IMO best to use some randomness as a starting point for your design. Thankfully some design tools (e.g. Photoshop) come with a handy "Clouds" ...
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Random pattern generation in Illustrator
I started with creating a circle (50pt diameter) and using a few lines and the Shape Builder Tool, I broke it into 4 equal pieces:
Then used Transform effects (Effect → Distort & Transform → ...
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How do I move a pattern swatch once I've applied it to a shape?
I assume you built a pattern and applied it to an object.
To move a pattern inside an object, select the object using the Selection Tool (V).
Hold Down the grave accent (backtick) key `, and click ...
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How can I create a pattern of parallel lines that are increasing in distance in Photoshop / Illustrator?
Use Blend and Clipping Masks!
Make a text by text tool and write anything!
Press P to select pen tool and draw simple line (you can use line tool too).
Remove Fill and Give Stroke to the line eg. 4px....
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Does anyone know how to create this kind of pattern design in Illustrator or Photoshop?
If you follow your own link and scroll a bit down, it's explained and exemplified how the patterns were made.
It seems that the patterns are in fact closeup photographs of Poison dart frogs.
So you ...
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Vectors perpendicular to a Bezier curve path
First you need to make sure the line with the arrow is a single closed path. After you have drawn a line, added the arrow pointer, click Path > Stroke to path. Using the Select by Nodes tool N, ...
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Creating a striped line in Illustrator
Pattern brushes are probably your best bet.
Draw a single segment of your repeating pattern. That'll be used for edges (i.e. between points) and a corner piece (I've just used a solid square). You ...
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Creating a striped line in Illustrator
About the only way to do this is via patterns. Either a pattern filled shape, or a Pattern Brush.
For a pattern brush, the set up isn't too difficult....
:) The difference between @Cai's brush and ...
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Illustrator: how to fill shapes with a 45 degree line pattern?
You can create a Pattern Swatch and use that pattern as a fill. I would start with what you have already, with two specific notes:
Make a perfect square as your background.
Space the diagonal lines ...
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How do I move a pattern swatch once I've applied it to a shape?
You can use object transforms (in the Object → Tranform menu) to transform only the pattern, just uncheck "Transform Objects" and check "Transform Patterns"...
You can also use the Transform ...
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Is a teaser with no image still a teaser?
A "teaser" is typically defined as anything which entices the viewer to look further (or keep watching in the case of multimedia) without actually giving away the "offer".
Coming ...
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Inkscape: Can not get "Pattern Along Path" feature to work as I need it
In Inkskape there are two different plugins to be used to put a pattern along a path:
Pattern Along Path Live effect: Path... Path Effects... +... Pattern Along Path, to be applied as a Path Effect:
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How to create this pattern?
Be aware there is an optical illusion taking place due to the shine of the metal making it possibly appear that there are 2 center points in the pattern. There aren't.
What follows is far from ...
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How to make pattern-dithered bitmap (halftone) style pictures?
That is not ascii art. It is called a pattern-dithered bitmap (halftone). I did a quick image search a found the source for your cropped art that has more pixel detail (see below).
I made a very ...
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