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- Now that we have all of our elements deep edged,
we're going to go ahead and arrange them into a tile
which we will use to create our pattern.
The repeat, also known as a tile,
the repeat is what I'm calling the arranged elements,
which we're going to copy and paste
over to create our pattern.
The next part of the process is repeating out our tile,
so that it repeats seamlessly on each side.
So the way that we do that
is by repeating our tile manually,
and then adding in extra elements,
which need to be used to fill up any extra space.
The thing about a repeat is that whatever you change
along the bottom of it, that is going to be happening
on the top of it. This will make more sense once we dive in,
so let's get started.
The first thing I'm going to do is
to select all of my elements,
and then I'm going to put them into a group.
Now that we have them in a group,
let's just transform them. Let's move them up,
and then this is the part where we start repeating it up.
Let's duplicate the group,
transform it.
Let's for example, try and move this down,
say 20 centimeters. It's probably not quite enough.
Let's do 25,
maybe 26.
Yeah. Okay, so 26 centimeters down looks like a good amount
to repeat it down.
First thing I'm going to do is I'm going to write down
the size that I'm repeating it down,
so I draw a little square
and then I just do a little arrow
and then I write 26 centimeters,
so that we know when we go back,
then that's how far we've gone down.
Okay, so because we're only affecting one of these groups,
I would put the bottom group on an opacity
and then I'm going to lock it
so that we can't make any changes to that group.
So let's go in
and let's start just rearranging these elements slightly.
So I'm basically going in
and I'm re adjusting the elements to make the space
in between the two repeating groups seamless.
The aim of this process is to create the nicest,
flowing repeat that we can.
So, once we're happy with that,
we're going to unlock the group that we have on opacity,
and then we're just going to delete it.
So you're always going back
and using the group that you've made
the most recent changes on.
So let's go back into here.
Let's duplicate the group,
transform, we know that we moved it down 26 centimeters,
so let's just go in there and type in 26.
You can see that it's looking pretty good.
I'm going to just make a couple of little changes.
Let's lock that layer that we,
the group that's on opacity,
and then I want to just go in here
and make a couple of little changes.
Okay, so,
let's see,
duplicate the group, transform,
going across to your Y axis
and repeating it down 26 centimeters.
And as you can see, it's looking pretty nice.
It's looking quite seamless
and I'm pretty happy with how that scene is repeating.
Now that we have our finished pattern,
we can now export it for whatever application we would like.
So if we want to set this up
for our print application, for example,
what we can do is fake it out for a card,
so we know that most greeting cards are
about 5 by 7 inches.
We'll just open a new document and set up as 5 by 7.
So now we have our card front
and now what we can do is just again,
just drop your pattern in there.
It looks pretty big. So let's scale it down to 25%,
maybe 30.
40, let's see.
Okay.
So looking, this looks pretty good at 45% scale
for our card,
we need to find that. So let's just flatten that file.
So now that it's flattened, let's save it.
And then if we wanted to, we could take that to a printer
and they could print it for us.
Here are some examples that we had printed out before.
This is a card. This is about 80% scale.
And this is another card, which is,
I think this is the 5 by 7,
and this is a 4.6 inches.
And this has the print in it at 60% scale,
but we also have them printed as double cards.
So feel free to experiment and just see what cool things you
can come up with because yeah, it's pretty exciting.
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