Turn Any Object Into A Pattern In Inkscape

[@francootaola9172]

I haven't had the time to watch the last few videos but I am really glad to see that you are back posting more frequently VIDEOS. Nick, I bought your courses that I didn't have the time to take it for the moment, but already your videos here taught everything I know and I get to do almost everything I need in Inkscape. Thank you man! You make one of the most comprehensive video explanations 😁

[@rodney0nline]

I thought dropping Adobe due to their monthly rates, would mean difficulty in my graphic design career, but Gimp and Inkscape have replaced both quite easily. I miss nothing about Adobe. Hopefully the SVG format can someday save us from PDF hell.

[@slimortirion8157]

In most use case they are great replacement, the only thing that both softwares are currently missing is the CMYK colour space. But you can still import your gimp file to krita and set CMYK colour space, as for SVG.... Once they will feature it they'll totally be great replacement of Adobe software

[@DeannesVideos]

This is one of the features of Inkscape I wish were a little better like easily changing the name of the pattern and easier to find/grab nodes but for how good Inkscape is as a free software I can't complain too much.

[@itsmeJennaL]

I needed to come back to tell you how helpful this tutorial was for me today. Taco patterned party hats and cupcake wrappers done in a flash, with cricut

[@flyingsquirrel3271]

Very cool! Btw. technically the custom patterns can probably be renamed in the XML editor. It would be nice to have a simpler option though.

[@chloewebb94]

Thank you for this tutorial! I really wanted to make an all over pattern for a book bag and now I can!

[@MalcolmBlakeSeeAndHear]

Thank you Nick. Just FYI, Inkscape have fixed those far out node handles by creating a neat transform handle box on the canvas which also appears in the fill and stroke menu. They've also added a gap x and y slider to make the padding adjustments more easily. The devs are watching you hahaha

[@Maurane_Saupiquet]

Amazing video as always! Simple to follow and clear! I'm so happy about the cute little patterns I've created. Thank you!

[@adamelamali6467]

nick your channel is great and special

[@martinbraun599]

Great! I've seen a lot of your videos and learned so much. All of this is invaluable to me! Thank you so much, Nick!!!

[@Orli155]

Thanks for the tutorial! I'm using this to make patterned bookmarks.

[@ridhoramadan5597]

Thank u very much for the tutorials.

[@XJRULO]

SUPERB!!! as always Nick!!!

[@LinkOStalker]

Extremely helpful, Nick. I've had to use patterns a few times and I didn't know this easy way

[@dustinstratton2946]

Super cool of you to share your knowledge of graphic design. I’m signing up for your class. Thanks!

[@deniseoliver851]

Brilliant will need to watch a second time - thank you....

[@LIUXIN]

Thank you. It's really helpful.

[@driftlow2426]

Thank you very much

[@windycitysawdust]

This is so awesome! Thanks for doing these videos

[@rushnijohnson5099]

Thank you, very helpful video, so easy to follow along.

[@autobotsNdecepticons]

Well that explains why I couldn't find the handles to modify the patterns. The "help" files were utterly useless on that. They say it's easy, but they don't tell you how to find the things you need to do it.

[@yevhendvyhun]

Yo, I almost started dancing to that intro music 😂 Didn't expect such track )

[@EndelaProduction]

Thank you

[@pedramkavian]

Hi Nick, I recently bought your bundle course. I wanted to know if you have any plan to make some special courses about creating game assets for 2D games with Inkscape. Because your courses are generally about learning the softwares themselves. But I really enjoyed your teaching and would like to see more specific courses.

[@SuperWolfkin]

So the real question here on this awesome video is can you edit the pattern source after you've converted the object to pattern? Does it lock in the shape?

[@westronic]

If you have an object that was converted to a pattern still in your document, you can select it and go to "Object" on the menu bar, then "Pattern > Pattern to Objects."

[@yanyanayan2867]

Great video as alwayas!

[@patrickmclaughlin6013]

Thanks Nick. Have tried making tessellations with inkscape? I made a couple with a couple of lines and the clones. Kinda interesting.

[@dennyskerb4992]

What happened to my favorite intro song ? Always enjoyed your tutorials they taught me everything I know about Inkscape. 🙏 thank you

[@LogosByNick]

Trying out some new things!

[@birdmun]

Just a quick comment you could also adjust the pattern rather than the pattern filled object. In which case you can easily see the size adjustment and rotation points. I suppose the center location point is also visible in the pattern. I checked this on 1.1. I am so behind the times on my system. :P

[@andrs_a]

The intro music has changed 👍👍👍

[@mooresinar]

Do you have a fee for service for small projects? I would like to use my son's high school logo to have some custom fabric made to make a surgical cap I can wear in the OR. You could design in minutes what would take me hours.

[@hennybobbert2563]

Great tutorial, however I'm trying to export this pattern as a PNG and it shows up as all black when it's finished. I deselect the whole thing and go to export like I normally do all my images, however the result is just a long rectangular black box. Please help. Thank you.

[@hunebare22]

Very Helpful Video! I have a question I hope you can help me solve. I have the new inkscape 1.3 as I was following along with your video, I messed up the process a few times before I got it correctly. Now I have several unwanted pattern tiles in my tiles preview area. how can I get rid of them? Is there a way to do that even? Oh and I figured out you can rename your custom patterns just highlight the Inkscape generated name (pattern124) and type the name you want it to have. when I clicked off the name I put in was still there. Thanks for the great tutorial. P.S. I purchased your master class course last week. I'm enjoying the tutorials so far and love the little quizzes at the end.

[@oikosu]

Excuse me, would it be possible to scale or move the pattern precisely? Say by mm?

[@brincher]

In Krita, all you have to do is press Shift + W and voilà, you can see your design as a pattern in the whole canvas right away. I whish Inkscape had this function as well.

[@lemonline3719]

Look into Path Effects > Tilling

[@seathroughheart1125]

Is there a master class using the most current version of Inkscape? Link? Help?

[@maritoangelo5141]

Thanks alot for the pattern tutorial tip, very helpful and handy! Now, for the Inkscape software engineer... I hope they can address the issue(in the next major version of Inkscape) where 'pattern node handles' are not hidden outside of the canvas size after choosing the 'node editor' button. Hmm... why after applying the pattern, does the objet have to be soooo big by default...? 🤨

[@BocahFomo-g1o]

when i click edit path by node, i did'nt find "x" for placement the pattern.

[@demoladigital]

Hey Nick, How can I change my Inkscape layout to match yours?

[@Emorine]

What's the difference between using this method and the seamless pattern method?

[@ISilentHunter13]

Hi Nick, i don't know if you still read comments for this videos but currently i'm having a problem that is when i try to export after making a pattern, like i'm trying to make an overlay, the pattern section doesn't show anything, is completely transparent, all the other objects remain the same, but the layer with the pattern is just transparent even when is visible in the app, what you think could be causing this?

[@Ema-ic1zl]

Nice!

[@melirn7280]

Hi Nick, I've been trying to create a fill pattern with an image of one of my tumblers I made. I love the swirls and colors on the cup and would like to make a fill pattern in inkscape. It is a jpg image. Is this possible? I have spent hours trying to figure it out and I gave up. LOL - I am enrolled in your masterclass but didn't see anything about making a pattern using an actual jpg. Thank you!

[@phrebh]

Great tutorial as always. I haven't played around with it, but is there a way to offset the rows and/or columns of the pattern without creating a mini version of it and using that as the object to use?

[@LogosByNick]

Not that I’m aware of. As far as I know you can only change the position, scale, and rotation.

[@phrebh]

@@LogosByNick That's what I thought, thanks. The workaround is easy enough, at least. 🙂

[@andrs_a]

What about trying tiled clones?

[@romanhalaksa1446]

And is there any way, how to gradually change the size of these individual objects?

[@rajendrameena150]

Is there a way to make randomisation like rotation, translation and scale in pattern.

[@bradmeekakasilvertopflyer]

Good morning Nick hope you are well

[@bradmeekakasilvertopflyer]

If ever you visit north Georgia I would love to have you as my guest at the pizzeria I work for, very unique environment, 30 seats very high volume, I cook around 2800 pies a week ,all wood fired locally sourced or imported. I call it designer pizza,no pun intended....lol...

[@seanwu1968]

Is it possible to precisely assign the size of an object in the pattern?

[@westronic]

You can create an extra object, then enter the precise X, Y location for this object (top middle toolbar). Enable Snapping (magnet icon in the top-right). Using the technique in this video, move the texture "handle" to snap onto the extra object, then delete it.

[@JeNn0mic0n]

@LogosByNick While I appreciate this tutorial, I believe there's a key factor missing, or at least a tutorial that's missing. The error I'm coming across is that when you create a pattern, you can't just save the pattern as a PNG background. When I try to do this, the x0 and y0 coordinates within the Export PNG menu do not change, which means it's not being registered or treated as an image that can be exported. How do I achieve actually placing the pattern on a background and exporting that finished product as an image please? I've followed this tutorial, created and saved my pattern, and to export an actual patterned background, I've tried Grouping, selecting everything, alternating between Page/Document/Drawing/Selection, and the only think that gets exported is an all-black image. Any help would be appreciated - thank you 🙏

[@pablojaviervillarreal5353]

Hi Nick! I have a problem with patterns. I'm trying to change the color when I use a default pattern but I can't. I think I by used do it going to extension > color > replace color, but that way doesn't work. Could be it a bug in the latest version? Could anybody help me?

[@janeg1428]

Hi, great tutorials. Just wondering how I save a pattern to Cricut Design Space - there is obviously something I am not doing which is causing the file not to be recognised. Can you help? Thanks.

[@LogosByNick]

The pattern feature in this lesson is an Inkscape-specific feature, so it wouldn't be recognized in Design Space. To import a pattern from Inkscape you'd have to create it manually (making duplicate copies and spacing them out)

[@CosimiCarlosA]

It does not export jpg/png with the pattern. What's up?

[@traceyklotz]

what if i want to turn one of my sketches into a repeating pattern

[@judyteich1184]

How would I turn a graphic into a knitting pattern? Can I import a picture into Inkscape and make a knitting pattern?

[@mtm7031]

Wow

[@Jelly-rj8fz]

haha "Lost in Space....." that's how I think of those cray missing handles.. haha

[@PengetahuanUmumGembira]

how to delete pattern file?

[@pierrex3226]

Awesomo 3000.

[@rajendrameena150]

how to make pattern library.

[@Drax658]

I had to come back to this video to recall how the patterns work because of those handles. I don't get why You can't manipulate the pattern by scaling and rotating the root object of the pattern. It would be so much more convenient.

[@Drax658]

Nick, where is "In da mood"? 😭

[@Hunter-jr3yq]

OOPS!!! Many of us newbies mess up! We draw a stroke with bezier pen then click convert stroke to path while holding bezier pen. Now we can’t bend strokes on newly drawn lines as the sides of the line stretches out. IFinally fixed it, don’t know how. Help us new folks! P.S. Uninstal and re-instal Inkscape doesn’t help. Lol

[@LogosByNick]

Once a stroke is converted to a path there is no going back. You'll have to create a new path, or use the "undo" function to go back far enough.

[@martinbraun599]

You can solve the problem by editing the stroke-to-path object via "Path / Path Effects / Bend". It is important that you activate the "Edit on the workspace" icon before bending. I wish you success! Incidentally, you can turn the path effect back into a completely normal, neutral, curved object afterwards. Just go to "Path / Object to Path". I hope I made myself clear. I work with a German-language Inkscape. So I may not have really hit the original English Inkscape-terms when translating.

[@OMGKiiro]

I just can't work this software. GIMP is leagues above it in being user friendly.

[@MrGylsen]

Wow, was thinking to cross over from illustrator to use Inkscape, not for me, it’s more complicated then illustrator…