Comments on: How to Make a Perfect Seamless Vector Pattern http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern Free Design Resources including free vectors, buttons, icons, fading corners, quick tips, tutorials and more. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:13:17 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: ellie http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/comment-page-2#comment-47522 ellie Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:40:26 +0000 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/#comment-47522 thank you so much!! thank you so much!!

]]> By: densen http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/comment-page-2#comment-47050 densen Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:39:03 +0000 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/#comment-47050 yea do the pattern yea do the pattern

]]> By: michael http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/comment-page-2#comment-46564 michael Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:25:02 +0000 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/#comment-46564 holy shit dude, why wouldn't you just make 1 circle inside of 1 square and save yourself some time?? holy shit dude, why wouldn’t you just make 1 circle inside of 1 square and save yourself some time??

]]> By: Marika http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/comment-page-2#comment-45579 Marika Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:19:33 +0000 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/#comment-45579 Thank you for this very educational and helpful description of a big problem. Now it´s solved and no problem nomore. Thank you for this very educational and helpful description of a big problem. Now it´s solved and no problem nomore.

]]> By: Je http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/comment-page-2#comment-43376 Je Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:42:36 +0000 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/#comment-43376 ah, I figured out my problem with the blend options: all I had to do was select BOTH top and bottom rows of circles, then select blend...duh. re:Christie, so if I'm interpreting your Q. properly, you're saying you can't get your circle aligned to the top left? Have you first manually aligned your rulers to the art board? To do this you can click on the white box located in the corner inbetween your ruler guides then, drag it to the top left corner of your art board.Its after you've done so that the transform palette should produce correct results. Hope that helps. ah, I figured out my problem with the blend options: all I had to do was select BOTH top and bottom rows of circles, then select blend…duh. re:Christie, so if I’m interpreting your Q. properly, you’re saying you can’t get your circle aligned to the top left? Have you first manually aligned your rulers to the art board? To do this you can click on the white box located in the corner inbetween your ruler guides then, drag it to the top left corner of your art board.Its after you’ve done so that the transform palette should produce correct results. Hope that helps.

]]> By: christie bella http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/comment-page-2#comment-43364 christie bella Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:03:20 +0000 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/#comment-43364 shoot- i forget to ask my question though- it seems that the first steps involving the "Transform" palette are producing results that are kind of backwards for me- my first circle- with reference point set to center; 0,0 x/y coordinates, etc- is aligned at the BOTTOM-left corner, as opposed to the TOP-left corner that you have. Now, with the way the rulers are set up in Illustrator, the 0 (zero) of the horizontal (x-axis) ruler is on the left (thus, susequantly increasing from left-to-right); however, the 0 (zero) of the vertical (y-axis) ruler is at the bottom (increasing from bottom-to-top) - which, to note, is only strange to me because the grid systems or graphs that i am familiar with usually have the zero point of all axis' (x, y, z) intersecting... Ok, so anyway, it makes sense, then, for my circle to be aligning at the bottom(0)-left(0) corner- zero,zero- so how is your first circle top-left (which would be [0, 400])? It's driving me nuts! I even tried "moving" (dragging) my y-axis zero up to the top corner, but it doesn't re-locate my circle to the top-left(?) shoot- i forget to ask my question though- it seems that the first steps involving the “Transform” palette are producing results that are kind of backwards for me- my first circle- with reference point set to center; 0,0 x/y coordinates, etc- is aligned at the BOTTOM-left corner, as opposed to the TOP-left corner that you have. Now, with the way the rulers are set up in Illustrator, the 0 (zero) of the horizontal (x-axis) ruler is on the left (thus, susequantly increasing from left-to-right); however, the 0 (zero) of the vertical (y-axis) ruler is at the bottom (increasing from bottom-to-top) – which, to note, is only strange to me because the grid systems or graphs that i am familiar with usually have the zero point of all axis’ (x, y, z) intersecting… Ok, so anyway, it makes sense, then, for my circle to be aligning at the bottom(0)-left(0) corner- zero,zero- so how is your first circle top-left (which would be [0, 400])? It’s driving me nuts! I even tried “moving” (dragging) my y-axis zero up to the top corner, but it doesn’t re-locate my circle to the top-left(?)

]]> By: christie bella http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/comment-page-2#comment-43360 christie bella Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:09:14 +0000 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/#comment-43360 I want to address the comments that imply, or allege, that this tutorial was "stolen" from another website. I haven't seen the other tutorial, but I can assure you that it is certainly not the first tutorial to use this very simple, standard method, which uses a basic circle shape, to illustrate making a basic, seamless pattern with AI- as one commentor noted, "there are only so many ways to make a seamless pattern!" A simple method such as this cannot be "stolen"- you cannot copyright or "own" ideas- although the expression of ideas CAN be copyrighted- so in other words, unless this entire tutorial- not just the ideas expressed within it- is a complete copy/paste of someone elses- word-for-word/image-for-image- then it is not, & cannot be, considered stolen- but even in that instance you could only really be certain if the tutorial contains distinct images &/or designs. As I said though, I have not seen the other tutorial that commenters are referring to... I want to address the comments that imply, or allege, that this tutorial was “stolen” from another website. I haven’t seen the other tutorial, but I can assure you that it is certainly not the first tutorial to use this very simple, standard method, which uses a basic circle shape, to illustrate making a basic, seamless pattern with AI- as one commentor noted, “there are only so many ways to make a seamless pattern!”

A simple method such as this cannot be “stolen”- you cannot copyright or “own” ideas- although the expression of ideas CAN be copyrighted- so in other words, unless this entire tutorial- not just the ideas expressed within it- is a complete copy/paste of someone elses- word-for-word/image-for-image- then it is not, & cannot be, considered stolen- but even in that instance you could only really be certain if the tutorial contains distinct images &/or designs. As I said though, I have not seen the other tutorial that commenters are referring to…

]]> By: Je http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/comment-page-2#comment-42708 Je Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:03:52 +0000 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/#comment-42708 hmm...help please... i feel like an idiot getting stumped and not being able to get past the next step after 'Duplicate the Dots and Align to the Bottom'. I mean, after I've got my 2 rows of dots at the top and bottom, I go to Object > Blend > Make and it just fills my duplicated row (at the bottom) with black and I have a black rectangular row.... some one.. please explain? thanks kindly. hmm…help please… i feel like an idiot getting stumped and not being able to get past the next step after ‘Duplicate the Dots and Align to the Bottom’. I mean, after I’ve got my 2 rows of dots at the top and bottom, I go to Object > Blend > Make and it just fills my duplicated row (at the bottom) with black and I have a black rectangular row…. some one.. please explain? thanks kindly.

]]> By: GoPiano http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/comment-page-2#comment-42668 GoPiano Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:04:56 +0000 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/#comment-42668 <strong>GoPiano...</strong> Hello ;) Thanks heaps for this indeed!... if anyone else has anything, it would be much appreciated. Great website Super Piano Links http://www.de.Grand-Pianos.org Enjoy!... GoPiano…

Hello ;) Thanks heaps for this indeed!… if anyone else has anything, it would be much appreciated. Great website Super Piano Links http://www.de.Grand-Pianos.org Enjoy!…

]]> By: carmen http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/comment-page-2#comment-42265 carmen Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:53:23 +0000 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/#comment-42265 really thanks!!! :) really thanks!!! :)

]]> By: Stoo http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/comment-page-2#comment-37284 Stoo Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:51:02 +0000 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/#comment-37284 Now... how to save and make it available in every other document without saving the whole palette?? Now… how to save and make it available in every other document without saving the whole palette??

]]> By: Jamie http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/comment-page-2#comment-31251 Jamie Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:21:30 +0000 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/#comment-31251 Thanks for this! Has been a great help so far. I would like to create a world map made up out of dots and wondered how do I do so that there are full dots making up the edges of countries rather than half cut ones like the example in the square above? Many thanks for any help in advance! Thanks for this! Has been a great help so far. I would like to create a world map made up out of dots and wondered how do I do so that there are full dots making up the edges of countries rather than half cut ones like the example in the square above?

Many thanks for any help in advance!

]]> By: Cloud No9 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/comment-page-2#comment-31045 Cloud No9 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:02:30 +0000 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/#comment-31045 Superb! Thnx so much for this wonderful tut. It's been a great help! Keep up the good work!!! Superb!

Thnx so much for this wonderful tut. It’s been a great help!

Keep up the good work!!!

]]> By: Arend http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/comment-page-2#comment-28265 Arend Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:19:08 +0000 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/#comment-28265 This method is no longer needed since CS3.. If You start up a Web document and afterwards Save-for-web Illustrator automatically cuts everything that falls outside of the artboard.. at least it does overhere :P maybe i activated some handy options in my subconscious state of design :P This method is no longer needed since CS3.. If You start up a Web document and afterwards Save-for-web Illustrator automatically cuts everything that falls outside of the artboard.. at least it does overhere :P maybe i activated some handy options in my subconscious state of design :P

]]> By: cammi http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/comment-page-2#comment-27802 cammi Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:17:29 +0000 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/#comment-27802 this is awesome! first try and it worked like a charm, thanks so much for all your help - i've been looking for a tutorial on this! this is awesome! first try and it worked like a charm, thanks so much for all your help – i’ve been looking for a tutorial on this!

]]> By: Nat http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/comment-page-2#comment-26259 Nat Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:49:02 +0000 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/#comment-26259 PLEASE I am having probs with this tutorial. When I enter the values as you have specified for the Transform tool to position my circles, they move the circle to a different position than where you have yours...also when I try to blend my line of circles, then copy themselves exactly on top of my last line of circles, they don't repeat as you have shown. Pleaseeee someone advise me...Many thanks PLEASE I am having probs with this tutorial. When I enter the values as you have specified for the Transform tool to position my circles, they move the circle to a different position than where you have yours…also when I try to blend my line of circles, then copy themselves exactly on top of my last line of circles, they don’t repeat as you have shown. Pleaseeee someone advise me…Many thanks

]]> By: Sommer http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/comment-page-1#comment-26125 Sommer Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:24:22 +0000 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/#comment-26125 I get through the entire tutorial without a hitch...until I get to the "easy" last step - cropping. I have the box on the top, everything is aligned correctly, etc, but when I crop, everything deletes. Any suggestions? So frustrating... I know I need to do more learning about the Pathfinder palate and how it works :) I get through the entire tutorial without a hitch…until I get to the “easy” last step – cropping. I have the box on the top, everything is aligned correctly, etc, but when I crop, everything deletes. Any suggestions?

So frustrating… I know I need to do more learning about the Pathfinder palate and how it works :)

]]> By: WSA: Illustrator Seamless Repeat http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/comment-page-1#comment-23976 WSA: Illustrator Seamless Repeat Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:17:04 +0000 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/#comment-23976 [...] http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/index.cfm?featureID=1764&pn=1 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern page tags: adobe illustrator repeat seamless page_revision: 18, last_edited: 1228467974|%e [...] [...] http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/index.cfm?featureID=1764&pn=1 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern page tags: adobe illustrator repeat seamless page_revision: 18, last_edited: 1228467974|%e [...]

]]> By: Sneha http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/comment-page-1#comment-23070 Sneha Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:43:00 +0000 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/#comment-23070 Thanks sooo much Thanks sooo much

]]> By: lex04 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/comment-page-1#comment-21968 lex04 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:31:27 +0000 http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-make-a-perfect-seamless-vector-pattern/#comment-21968 These sits are also good: http://home.comcast.net/~ysbuys/aimages/seamless_patterns.pdf http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/index.cfm?FeatureID=1675 These sits are also good:

http://home.comcast.net/~ysbuys/aimages/seamless_patterns.pdf

http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/index.cfm?FeatureID=1675

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