Illustrator Pattern Made Easy, How to Create and Edit Patterns in Illustrator

[@meteorcube]

As a total beginner, I really like how clear your instructions are. The best!

[@EliasSarantopoulos]

Thank you for your kind feedback! 😀 👋

[@societyofgoodness4643]

I love your vids my friend. Please keep sharing. Truly one of the best instructors on KZbin ⭐️

[@EliasSarantopoulos]

You so ever kind, thank you 👋😀

[@DDBOffice]

Hi! So, I'm self-taught so this may be a dumb question, but I successfully created the pattern I wanted and am able to use it in different shapes, etc. However...when I try to open a new blank artboard the swatch isn't there? Its just in the original file I created to make the pattern but not visible with the other swatches in a new project? Help, thank you!

[@EliasSarantopoulos]

That is very true! In this case you have the option from the fly-out menu bar to export the Swatch library or at the bottom you can click to Swatch Libraries Menu to Save Swatches onto your system. Either way, this is a normal behavior. 👋

[@DDBOffice]

So if you save it to your computer - can you then upload that swatch to a new project whenever you want to use it? Can you still edit it? Thank you@@EliasSarantopoulos !

[@EliasSarantopoulos]

@@DDBOffice Yes to both questions. Inside the Swatches panel, double click on the pattern and that will bring you to the pattern editing mode. 😁👋

[@asaassas1883]

Is there any way to resize shape or a rectangle or an artwork to fit artboard illustrator with a shortcut ? need help with this...

[@EliasSarantopoulos]

Asaas, yes there is and it is covered inside the tutorial towards the end parts. There are chapters you can follow. Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you! 😀 👋

[@atwfk]

When I press the tilda and shift key to resize the pattern it automatically selects the curvature tool any way to fix this?

[@EliasSarantopoulos]

Ali, I've never experienced that on my end. Is your keyboard language set to English? 😊

[@AngelicaCamargo-u1k]

Mine too! Cant figure out way...

[@EliasSarantopoulos]

@@AngelicaCamargo-u1k As far as I know on my end using an EN keyboard it works Angelica. 😀

[@atwfk]

@@EliasSarantopoulos Yes my keyboards in English. What I used to do was duplicate the pattern using option + drag I think and I’d then resize it and select the original pattern and use the eye dropper tool. For some reason that no longer works.

[@georgeluchoronga2462]

Sorry! May you help me to know why only one colour was retained by strokes after being united in pathfinder.

[@EliasSarantopoulos]

@@georgeluchoronga2462 Pathfinder combines shapes into one solid one so it keeps the one that is on top of the layer stack. Try and see, I think that will be the case. 😀

[@georgeluchoronga2462]

@@EliasSarantopoulos Thank you so much Mr. Elias, your tutorials have been helping me to learn adobe illustrator.

[@EliasSarantopoulos]

@@georgeluchoronga2462 Thank you so very much for your constructive feedback! 😀 🙏

[@georgeluchoronga2462]

Hi,excuse me, am here again to know how save patterns. 1.I created patterns and saved them as ai but I failed(error message)How can I save as ai format. 2. When I saved as ase format and try to open on user defined, a menu popped up but it didn't contain that custom pattern /swatch I created. Please help me dears.

[@EliasSarantopoulos]

@@georgeluchoronga2462 All patterns are saved automatically as AI file formats inside the Swatches panel.

[@georgeluchoronga2462]

@@EliasSarantopoulos I tried to save as ai format Your clipboard now supports images as well as text but an error message popped up

[@EliasSarantopoulos]

@@georgeluchoronga2462 Maybe you are getting a software error, I can not tell. When you create a pattern and you save it, can you see it inside the Swatches panel?

[@georgeluchoronga2462]

@@EliasSarantopoulosNo, Just on the artboard

[@EliasSarantopoulos]

@@georgeluchoronga2462 So I guess you need to save them as I do inside the tutorial. If you have further questions, you can always email me. 😀

[@Sjon_E]

first 7 minutes completely unrelated to patterns that's what we like to call an epic fails bros

[@EliasSarantopoulos]

There are chapters you can skip if you wish. 🤷‍♂️😀