Easy Geometric Patterns in Procreate

1. Intro to Geometric Patterns in Procreate: Hi guys and welcome. My name is Dolores Nas Grinch. And today I'm coming to you from sunny Florida. We spend time here in the winter to try to avoid that terrible better cold in Manitoba right now is minus 35. If you can believe it. Hopefully they don't get a wind because if they do, it's going to be something like mine is 50 and nobody wants that and that's in Celsius, not in Fahrenheit. This class I'm bringing it today. Like I said, I'd wanted to do for quite a long time, I have created many geometric patterns in Procreate. I had to figure out ways to make it easier for myself. There are no really easy ways of creating some of these geometric patterns unless you know some of the tips and tricks that I'm going to teach you today. Now if you haven't done so already and you're interested in my classes, please hit that follow button up there. That way you'll be informed of my classes or anything else that I sent out. I really appreciate anybody who's chooses to follow me. My numbers are growing steadily and I'm super thankful. In this class we're gonna be doing a lot of different things with selections. So you're gonna be reinforcing what you know about selections and procreate. We're also going to talk about color and hue and saturation settings and a few other tools along the way. Are you ready to get started? All right, let's get into it. 2. Starting the Triangular Pattern: Hi guys, welcome to lesson one. We're gonna be creating two patterns in this class. One of them is very geometric based on straight lines only, and the other one has some circles built-in. In this lesson, we're gonna get started on the triangular pattern. Let's get to it. So as I mentioned in the intro, I've been wanting to do this class for awhile. And the reason for that is how nice these patterns can turn out and can therefore be used in pattern collections. If you're not into surface pattern design, then you could use his background for almost anything depending on how deep the colors are, it would be a great backdrop for lettering, for example. It could be something that you could use for greeting card design. I actually just saw this, something like this. One of these, I guess you'd say just on one of the TV networks that were watching this one was kind of a background that they used behind a bunch of announcements. So they're very versatile. I think once you start creating and using these, you'll see how much you really get out of it. So a lot of mileage out of a very simple design. I'm gonna show you some varieties and different things that you can do to make the pattern look different. Starting with the very same base pins and the way you do your colors or in the way you repeat or triangles. I'm gonna show you all of that. Now to get started, I wanted to talk to you a little bit about different settings that can help you in Procreate here. So we're gonna add a new document. I'm gonna do this ten by ten, and I'm doing it at my usual 300 pixels per inch. So let's just choose small. We can use this color palette. What the heck? I think this will work out just fine. And I'm gonna be using some of the features that you've used before, but you've probably used in different ways. So let's start. If I first just filling our background square, one of the things that I like doing is using the power of Procreate because of its cropping, as opposed to some other programs like Photoshop will not crop even if you drag something off the edge. But here in Procreate it does completely crop. So if we look at the square now, it's cropped on all sides. Now we're gonna use the power of the cropping tool. And we're also going to be using the snapping and magnetics features in Procreate here to help us do some of the aligning. So to get started on this particular pattern, like I said, we have this solid square, then we're going to do another square above it. And let's choose an alternate color. That one's quite a bit lighter and that top corner can stay where it is. But what we want to do is pull this corner over here and we're gonna use snapping to make sure that we get to the perfect alignment here. And I'm just going to use Distort. And what I'm gonna do is I'm going to start pulling that dot. And you can see that whenever I get close to one of the settings in my guide, that it'll snap to that now at the moment I've got my Canvas guides. So you go to Canvas, you go to Drawing Guide and go to edit drawing guide. I wanted sat here. That's on the 2D grid in the center. And at the moment we've got it at the largest grid size, which makes it, it actually bisects our full shape here. And really for this first part of it here, we don't even really need the guide because this corner is going to be what we're winding up to you. But I just wanted to point out that this is how you see the snapping happening. It'll snap to whichever guys we have here. Now in this case, because we actually had three circles to start out with. You've got the corner, the middle, and the far corner. What we want to do is move those out of the way so that we can bring this one here right to the very corner and you could see what's happening here. The rest of the square is temporarily there, but as soon as we commit it, you can hit that selection tool again and you can see that Then I've got it perfectly aligned here in the corners. We've perfectly bisected our square. And now we can start with some of the fun stuff, which is using what we've got here to create some additional levels to the design if that makes sense. So what we're gonna do now is we're going to take these two, let's group them. And now we can duplicate the group. And to duplicate, you just slide to the left, get the duplicate button here. And now we've got a copy of that particular group that we had originally. So we've got exactly the same as what we had. But what we want to do now is take this and it, Let's flip it horizontally. And now you can see that the triangle will be in the opposite direction of what it is on the original one. To see the effect that, that could have less mess around a little bit with these blending modes. So we'll start with this layer because it's the bottom most layer. And let's start by. Now. You can't really see that unless I move that over once I start playing with the blending modes and the opacity, you can see how it's blending with that original square that we had there. So you can decide on the type of look that you want. I felt that I often use overlaying, but that may be something that as you start working on these patterns that you may want to change, you may want to do it this way for some of them and then do them a different way for another. Because you've got a different sort of look going for, let's say a different fabric collection. Let's also do the same with this uppermost triangle. So I think overlay was what I use there. So you can see here as soon as I apply overlay, that, that overlay then blends or effects that bottom layer that we have there. So again, like I said, you can mess around with the opacity in this case, you can't really go too much less because you're going to end up matching your color that you have in the base and you don't want that, you want it to be sort of contrasty but not too contrasty. And I'll show you why in a second. So we've got our first square there, and I want to show you how you can make this into a full pattern that has this exact color scheme and then has the same one but with different sort of values. When I talk about values, when I'm talking about, is a different tones that you have here. Light, medium, darker, and we're going to alternate so that we can get this sort of a look and I'll show you here. So when this is probably the most obvious here, we started out with the same a square, but then made a copy of it and changed the way the blending modes we're working and change the tones on this one so that we've got a complete contrast there. So these two repeat and then we did the same again on the top half. And I'm gonna show you all the steps there. So don't panic if you're already thinking to yourself, I just don't get it. I'm going to start working on that repeat. In the next lesson. I will meet you there. 3. Expanding on the Design for Variety: Welcome to lesson two. In this lesson we're going to be continuing with that geometric triangular pattern. I'm gonna be showing you some ways to make some real interesting changes in color at each of the quadrants. This is the basis of your design. Once we're finished this lesson, you actually have a complete repeat pattern swatch. Let's get started. Let's go back to our original here and I want to talk to you about the basic pattern. Repeat that I always do now if you've been in my other classes, you've already had this experience with me. What we're gonna do is we're going to group all of what we've got here. We can actually move these things into one group. Now you can see here that I can delete this group, but I haven't actually added these into these, this group here. You can see because it's not indented. So I'm gonna grab both of those and just move them up into this layer. And you can see that they're all in the same layer now because they're lining up on the side. So what we need to do here now is to take this particular group and duplicate it. So we're gonna duplicate it just once for now. Normally we do it four times if you remember from my other classes. And the reason we do that is to be able to move them all into the separate corners. This is a little bit different of a process. But what we're gonna do first is we're going to create those two different tones that I was talking about. So we're going to duplicate the group and we're gonna take each of those groups and reduce them down. And I want to take it off distort and put it onto a uniform. I just want one of the groups. I'm going to grab it. And they're weak now. So I've brought that one down to the corner and you notice when I got it to the center, it basically just jumped him snaps into position there. And I know it's perfectly aligned to my centers because both of those lines have turned kind of a golden yellow. You can see it actually extends a little bit beyond the ends that you can see it visually even though this is yellow. Now we're gonna grab this one and we're gonna do the same thing. And we're gonna pull that one down to this side. So you can kind of see now where I'm going with this. I want to now change the tones of this second one here. We have this whole palette here that we can work with. So why don't we just know is that this group or this group, this group here. What we want to do is just grab different tones of color and place them into each of the different placeholders that we have here. So each of the different shapes. So let's, I think I'm just going to make my changes here. So I just want to make it slightly different. So let's switch to this. That's gonna be this triangle here. Try this color here. I really wish you could just drag from the palette, but you can't. You gotta Greg from up here. But that's enough of a change of tone there to make it look good. For this one here, we might just be able to get away with just changing the opacity a little bit. And then this one which will be this upper corner here, maybe I'll go tad darker. And you can see definite contrasts between the two. You can tell that they're different. You can decide for yourself how much of a tonal difference that you want. If this is way too bright or too contrasty, you can reduce the opacity. You could experiment with a different blending mode. Overlay. Soft light is actually a pretty nice 12 that I use quite often. I think that's enough for me as far as contrast, because we're now going to repeat these two and put them up here. So you can choose to group them, which would make them easier to duplicate. If they aren't grouped, then you would have to duplicate each of them separately, which is also not that big of a deal. But then that would be you could grab these two. If I grab the two that you want to move up. And you see those were right on top of each other. So those aren't the ones that I want. I would want probably these two. Let's grab and move those up. Now. I don't want to have completely different things here. All I want to do here is actually flip them over. So in this case I'm going to use the Flip Horizontal and I've created the four corners here. I'm ready now to actually create my repeat. You could actually output this as a JPEG and this would be perfect for Spoonflower or for societies six anywhere that does accept a single repeat. Now, I personally like going that next step and kind of testing this repeat before I go ahead and create my final swatch. And if you've been in my classes before, you know that the next step now will be to group all of these and then we'll reduce the new group so that we can get four copies of it, one in each corner. So let's do that in the next lesson. I'll see you there. 4. Experiment with Values and Patterns: Hi guys, welcome to lesson three. And less than three here we're going to be making some adjustments on the tone after design the different values. And then we're going to do some small adjustments so that can make such a difference in the overall look of the pattern. This is the way that we create variations from that initial triangle design that we started in the first lesson. Let's get started. Okay guys, in this lesson, let's just do our test so that we can see whether or not we liked the way this overall color scheme is looking and that we've got our values the way we want them. So let's take and group all of these group and just makes it a lot easier to deal with all of the separate parts. Now when I select, it's selecting the entire group so that when I do something like this, it affects everything in that selection. So you probably can see where I'm going with this. What I'm gonna do now is I'm going to duplicate and I'm going to grab that whole bit. And I think this is really cool the way this is working with the contrasting shapes. And now we can either duplicate these separately like this, or we could have taken what we've got there. So these two and group them and then duplicated the entire group. Then we can move that entire half. You can see here that we've so quickly created a beautiful repeat pattern. And we can tell just by testing it like this, that it works just great. What I do sometimes too, is I even go one step further and I create a brush out of what I've got there. We could even do that now because it's a really good way to test your overall look of your pattern will only have it in one tone unfortunately. But I think that it's really helpful for checking to see if everything you have looks the way you want it. I'm going to grab all of this stuff here and I'm going to group it and then I'm going to duplicate the group. Know I reach too many. Did you see that when I did try to duplicate the group, I got a warning up here that I've reached my 70 maximum, 70 layers. So what I usually do in a case like that, as I'll go into my gallery, select it, duplicate it, and then go into the duplicate and go into my layers here. And I'm just going to flatten this. Now to make a brush. The brush studio only works with black and white or black and white and gray. So basically desaturated, it takes all of the colors out. So what I'm gonna do is check that out first by going to my hue saturation and brightness. And I'm gonna take out all of the color. You can see what I'm left with here is kind of dull, not very contrasty, sort of an image. So I'm also going to go into my curves here and make some adjustments to have a little bit more contrast. What I can do here is I can now three fingers swipe down and copy. And I can go into my, let me find my pattern brushes. And I can go into one of the brushes I've already created and duplicate it. Then I'll go into that brush. The settings are great, they're perfect for what I need. So basically what it is is a basic brush. Things like the jitter and spacing don't matter too much here. You can make adjustments to that with a bit of experimenting, but it's fine the way it is, the shape has just, it could be any shape that you can find here in the source library. Basically what the shape will do is just give an overall shape to the brush itself. So it hasn't got much to do with your graphic that you've created. But if you wanted something a little bit squarish, you can kind of go through and find something that like this one, for example, is a square that might what we're doing today a little bit better. Let's go into the grain. Edit, Import. Paste. Said we'll try both positive and negative forms of the brush. Let's just try this 1 first, exactly as we pasted it in. You can see it here. And let's pick a color that's going to be a little bit more obvious. And you can see that our repeat has worked perfectly. Now you may want to go in and increase the scale of the pattern. And you might want to have caught this pretty much at the maximum as far as the size Coase. But you can see that this is a great way to test the look of your repeat and just to make sure that it works. So that worked great. We could also go in and go back into the grain. I'm gonna go get smaller and edit in here, two finger tap, hit Done. And now this will be the reverse, like a positive form of it. And you could experiment with your colors that you're using. You're only gonna get a monochromatic brush out of it. But it's a great way to test your pattern and decide whether or not you like the values that you assign to the different quadrants of your original square. You can see that one of the things that I can see looking at it here, Let's go with a darker color. So what you can see here, like the only thing that I'm noticing is that this is filling in a little bit. So the value on both sides of that triangle where two similar. You can also see the pattern that it kind of forums with the dark forms that zigzaggy pattern. These are all things that you just have to decide for yourself. Is that what I want or do I want something different? And if that's the case, then you're gonna make changes back in that original document and decide whether or not you need to adjust some of the values. But in general, that's how that particular pattern is made. And you can see that also, you can keep it very simple by just doing half of that original square at a time. So if I was to go back to, let's just look at only this layer. The original square was simply divide it in half. And that's how that particular pattern was created. With this technique, There's two quick patterns that you can experiment with and decide whether or not those will be useful to you. The next pattern that we're going to experiment with is this one here. We're going to do this sort of a circular shape to create patterns that look like this. All right, I'll meet you in the next lesson and we'll talk about how you set up this particular one. I'll see you there. 5. Setting Up Circular Pattern: Hi guys, welcome to lesson four. In this lesson, we're gonna get started on that circular pattern. Let's get to it. In this lesson, what I want to do is break down the creation of this particular pattern. We're going to do it exactly like we did the first one. We're going to start with just one individual square here. If I were gonna go back to this one here, could show you the different parts that we're gonna have. We're gonna have a square which will be the background color. And we're going to have each of these separate half circles, a full circle, and then the other half circles that complete the pattern. And you can do fun things like sending some in behind to give a completely different look to the pattern when you're done, we'll go over that as we progress through the next couple of lessons. Let's start by doing that original setup. What I want to do here first is create my ten by ten document and it's 300 pixels per inch again. And we want to draw a perfect circle in order to create that perfect circle. Of course, you know that you can just use a brush. So I would go to my Posca marker and I could draw my circle The, bring my finger onto the screen so that I've got a very symmetrical circle created. And I can go to Edit shape here and make sure that it's a perfect circle at which it is. That's turned out fine. I could use that. I'm gonna show you a couple of different methods. So this I would do, I would increase the size of the circle so that it's pretty much touching the edges. I don't want it to actually touch the edges. I want it to be a little bit within. You can see here that I'm using the same technique as before, using the guides to help me position that perfectly in the center. So that's one of the ways that we could do it. I could use this circle or I could and hide that one. I could use a ellipse elliptical selections. So I'm going to start right in the very top corner. Again, I'm pressing with my single finger to keep this as a perfect circle. I'm going to go a little bit within because I was off-center. They're going to fill it. And you can see that I don't have it perfect position, but as soon as I start moving it around with the snapping and magnetics on, I get those orange guides and those are the ones that tell me whether or not I've got it centered or not, that I have it perfectly centered. And this would be the same if I fill this circle here. So we could do the exact same thing here and fill that circle. Basically we're obviously ending up with the exact same thing. So it's your preferences to how you would prefer to create that original circle. Now we're going to create the word take the Inside Out of this so that we create an actual ring. I find the easiest way to do that is to duplicate what I've got. Just to make it easier for you to visualize, I will fill it with white. And then I'm going to reduce it down and make sure you're on uniform here. What I wanted to do is have a fairly thick circle, so I'm reducing it down. And then just again, using the guides here to help me position it perfectly in the center. I actually want this to be one ring. I don't want to have to like this. So I'm going to select that top one and merge it down. And really I don't want that fill in the middle. You can see now that I have a white fill and to get that out, I'm just going to use my automatic selection. Select that middle part of the circle, three fingers swipe down, and then I can cut that out. Then I'm left with a perfect drain. And that's what I want for this project here. What we need is to have this exact ring but in four quadrants. So the easiest way to do that is to duplicate it and I'm going to keep my original one. And just to make it easier for you to visualize again, let's fill this one with a color. That way you're gonna see that black one. You'll see what I'm doing here. So what I'm gonna do is drag it and basically I'm dragging it out of 45 degree angle. And you can see that I'm getting it lined up again to those orange lines. There are yellow lines wherever they are. So I've got my first one there and I could easily repeat that whole process that I went through. But why? Now that I've got it gets cropped. So it's perfect. It's exactly what I want and it's in position where I need it. It makes sure that those were both yellow so that they're perfectly centered. And then what we're gonna do is actually duplicate it. Then what we're gonna do is flip it horizontally. So as soon as you hit your selection tool there, these things come up and you can flip horizontal and then it's just as simple as dragging it over. And remember you want to see that orange line in the middle so that you know that you've got it perfectly aligned. Now that we've got those two, we can just group them, duplicate the group, then select that group and flip it vertically. Same deal. We're going to bring it all the way down. Make sure you keep going until you see that you've got the yellow line in the middle as well. So you've got both ways showing as perfectly centered and we're ready to go now to start layering our design until we get that this one here and that one in behind to create our pattern. The only thing I'm seeing here right now is that on these three, I have a little tiny gap here which is fine, but I don't have it here. So there's something wrong with this particular one which I think notice this one. This May 1 not have been perfectly aligned when I was the opposite. But now I think I've got it. You can double-check co-op really large to make sure everything has gone to the outside edge here. This one, you can see because I've enlarged it, you know what happened? Because I cropped it. It cropped it right off. So I really can't use this one anymore. I'm going to have to delete this one, duplicate this one. Again, go in and flip it horizontally and move it in and make sure that I'm absolutely perfectly centered there. I'm not sure exactly why I'm not getting that little gap there, but you know what, I really don't think it's gonna make a difference. Let's just ignore it. In the next lesson, what we'll do is we'll take these, put them in behind, and we're going to start doing our repeating process. All right. I'll see you there. 6. Finalizing Circular Components: Hi guys, welcome to lesson five. Less than five, we're going to be finalizing that circular pattern. Let's get started. What I wanted to do with this particular design is to have the opposite sides here. This one in this one, I want them to be behind this black circle here. So all I need to do is grab them and slide them in underneath. And so it's just locate this one and do the same thing here. Now all of this stuff can be in the same layer, so we can definitely grab all of these. We can delete the groups for now and make a good group out of this one. Because now we've got most of the components we need to do our repeat. I want to add that background, so I'm going to add a layer here. Let's make sure it's underneath everything and we're going to grab a different color that's too dark. So let's go maybe this one still finding out a bit dark. I'm just lightened it here. And I think that works well. We've got everything we need here for doing our repeat. I think I'm gonna change my black circle to be more in keeping with this color scheme. So maybe this color. And I like that, I think that works out great. So we've got everything we need for our first the corner. And what I like about doing this square in the background is that's what's going to help us to do all of our aligning. We've got this all as one group. So now we can take this one and reduce it down. And of course it's going to snap right where we want it. We can duplicate this one and bring it over to the side here and you see how nice that is. Now, we've got this looking like a full ring as well, and yet it's slipped in behind. So this reminds me a lot of like a Celtic knot. And that's one of the classes I've been working on, is a class on how to produce Celtic knots. So this is kind of an important technique to know how to manipulate so that you can do that when we do that caltech dot class. Now what we wanna do is we want to group both of these, duplicate this group. And then this whole thing can be moved up. And you can see how we've got everything we need here now to make our repeat pattern. This, like I said, is your single repeats. So this could be used as is and sent to Spoonflower or any of those other sites that you work with that need a single repeat. But we could also call that one step further to do the test. To do the tests, what we want to do is group all of this together. What we could do, I guess, is to take these two groups and slide them into this one. Delete this one. Now we've got the entire thing as one single group. Let's just reduce that one down and duplicate it. You can see where I'm going with this. Now we can take both of these, group, them, duplicate this group. Now, it's giving me that warning about the 70 layers. So I'm gonna go back to the gallery. I'm going to select and duplicate. Go into my duplicate. Now I don't know if you noticed that when I was up this high, you can see a bit of a gap there. I have done a lot of experimenting and that gap doesn't actually exist. You have to be very, very careful that all of those other steps that you made sure that they all deadline up and that you had it right to the very edges. By just rest, assure that that gap there usually is a screen glitch. I would test that if I were you just to be sure, but if you know that all of the other levels we're okay, then this one should be as well. I'm going to duplicate it or I'm going to flatten it because we can't duplicate it or will have too many layers it basically what you're doing with this one is just a test anyways, just to make sure that you've got a really cool repeating pattern and this one worked out great. It looks just as nice as this one that I created. But you can see with this one, what I did here. Can you guess? It's exactly like we did that original one with the triangles. We did some slight changes with the tones on the four corners so that we could get a much more interesting pattern. So you could be satisfied with this pattern and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. Or we can go back to this one. In fact, let's also duplicate this one. And what we'll do in the next lesson is we're going to experiment with doing the quadrants differently. So we're gonna delete this and we're gonna work with this quadrant. And we're going to make some changes so that each square looks a little bit different. All right, So I'll meet you in that next lesson. 7. Circular Design Color Experiments: Hi guys, welcome to lesson six. Let's make some experimental changes to this circular pattern. I want to see all the different ways that we can affect the design with colors and tones and values and that sort of thing. Let's get started just to be sure. And I want to reassure you about that gap that we saw on the screen there. Now I've got my guides on. And you can see that as I'm snapping here is hitting that yellow line, I'll go even larger. And this is a good way for you to check as well, is to scroll up, make sure that when you're doing it, you're not on your design and scrolling because that's going to change your size. So when you want to scroll up in size, make sure you're scrolling in this white section of your screen. You'll see that as I'm enlarging or reducing, you can see that my lines here are still perfectly lining up. Now one of the things that happens with Procreate is that when you are enlarging and reducing or sometimes you duplicating, you will often get kind of a pixelation happening with your enlargement and reduction because the way the program works, I want to show you something to have you absolutely sure that your edges are all going to be perfectly sharp. Now when we open all of this up, you'll see, of course are for initial, so that's 1234 initial squares here, 1234. So that's each of the quadrants there. What I'd like to do is actually get rid of these. Create another square to go in the background. So I'm gonna pick a light yellow and I'm going and filling the whole background. And when I go to reduce it down in size here, I'm going to go to each of these different ones to just show you what happens when I reduce. In this case, I had it on by cubic. And you can see that the line, the outside edge remained really sharp. Let's try bi-linear. That's the looks really sharp. Nearest neighbor. Procreate does not like nearest neighbor for this particular project. So I guess we're not going to use it. It just keeps closing down my procreate. So I'm gonna go back to by cubic. We're going to bring it down in size. And I'm gonna take that. I put it right down at the very bottom, below all of them. I know that that's a nice sharp, clean new inch. When we duplicate when we do all that duplicating like we did initially to change some of these different colors. That duplication is what's sometimes gives you that soft edge and that can cause the gap. I know earlier I said trust it. If you've lined it up properly, it should be fine. I would test it by printing it out or by enlarging it really large and checking to see if the soft edge, if that's what has caused that little gap. So that's just something to keep an eye out for. Now what I wanted to do though, is I want to reduce that down even further to be one-quarter. Let's duplicate and see. That looks pretty sharp and clean at the moment. So I'm going to select both and double-check that that center and it is duplicate both of these, and then we'll move them up, bring that back down. Now we've got all four quadrants. We can start making some changes to have our design look a little bit more like that one I showed you where it had four different kind of looks. And the fastest way is just to take and re-color each of those or change the blending mode and opacity. Because this is such a light color. I think that's what I'll do is I'll change the color a little bit on each one. So that color I think I would use here as well. So make sure this is the right one. We've got selected, drag it in here. Actually. It to be more interesting, I'm going to make that slightly different than this one. And then I'm going to start changing some of these out. So just make sure you're aware of which grouping that you're working on. Right now? This is the one I want to be working on. That's this group in the layers palette. I'm going to start, see if that's different. First, start with that layer there. Let's have slight difference. Maybe I'll go a tiny bit darker so you can see it. Make sure you select the layer that you want to change. So that's what I'm doing here, is by just clicking on the layer, so I know which one it is and dragging it in. So that's somewhat different than this one. So we're starting, we're getting it a little bit different. I think maybe I can change this ring to be a little bit different on this one too. The other thing you can do is if you don't want to work with the palette that you're on, you can just sample the colors. So I've got it set to a single tap to get my color here. And then I can change it just in my desk here. So I've made that one slightly darker, not much of a difference, but we can vary these as well. I'm gonna go lighter on this one here. So let's figure out which group that is. Now I've got all these embedded groups, which is a bit confusing. So that's one of the things as you're putting it together. You can decide and make changes to yourself. This is the one that I want to work with now, so I'm gonna just close those two ladies that kind of lose it. Yeah, this is the one I want to work on now. I'm gonna go just with slightly different colors here. I'm starting with this one here. See which one that is. Make sure I'm on that layer before I drag and I bought that one, I'll change, Let's change that background slightly so I'm just going to sample it. I'm going to go a little bit lighter. Again, remember to select the layer that you want to effect. Change the ring as well. So sample that color for lighter or whatever your choice is and fill that to be different. So we've got them different, all different from each other. So we've got the four quadrants completely different. And in the next lesson, what we'll do is we'll run that test to see what our overall pattern looks like. Alright, so I'll see you there. 8. Testing and Finalizing the Patterns: Welcome to Lesson Seven. Unless it's happened here, we're gonna do our testing. Let's take a look at these patterns on some mock-ups. So I already know that this is going to be way more layers than this particular document can handle because it can be 70 layers and I'm looking at it, I'm sure I'm close to 50 already. So again, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go and select the document, duplicate it. And then I'll go into the duplicate. And what we'll do is we'll just merge all of these layers together because what we're doing here is just a test. So I know it should be naming all of these. I'm pretty lazy. I haven't labeled. And I think just because I have a certain routine that I go through when I'm creating a pattern, then I know that I've got the original on this side, then I've got a duplicate and then the same thing this was gonna original and that was a duplicate. I kind of have a way to keep that clear in my own head if it's a little bit difficult for you, especially if you're just starting out, you might want to name this one master document or something like that. So you can just click on it, click on the title there, and type in your master document or whatever you want to call it in this case, now we know that this is the duplicate. So it's okay for us to flatten or merge them all, which is what I'm gonna do here with a quick pinch. Then I'm going to duplicate, drag that one over here to the side. And then again I can merge it down and duplicate it and pull that went up to the top. So like I said, it's a test document. So in this case, I haven't kept it all in layers, but I know that I do have that in my gallery. This was just so that I could see the overall look of the pattern. And what I generally do is I take what I've got here, it export it, and then I take it into Photoshop or whatever program I like using and I tested on mock-ups. So what I will do is I'm going to export this now. In order to export it, I'm going to hit share here, and I'll export it as a JPEG here. I can AirDrop it to my own computer, which is what I would do. And then what we're gonna do is open it up there and take a look at it. So I've opened up the single repeat here. And what I'd like to do just to make it faster for using in my mockups is to create a pattern out of this. Because we know it's a perfect. Repeat. All I need to do here is open up my patterns panels. In this panel here, you don't see it here. Go under your window. Show patterns. Once you've got it open here, you can put it in a folder that you already have or not. It's up to you. Click Add. You can name it. And it's added here on your panel. So we can close this file off. I'll show you why. It's so nice to have the pattern. So when I was creating this mock-up here, I was able to go into the Smart Objects. So each of these is a smart object. Each of the different layers double-click on the smart object and it'll open up like this. We can close this panel off. And you can see here that I've added a pattern fill layer. So if it wasn't there, let's just start from scratch. This was the original on the mockup, and that's a mock-up by creates. I would go to add a pattern here. Now I can select the pattern that I want to use I had printed into my plots and Twilio grab it here and I can adjust the size if necessary, right here. Click Okay, and then it's important that you hit Save. Once it's done saving, and you go back into the file, you'll see that it has updated here in the mockup because it's so easy. I did that with the blue pattern as well. And I've done a bunch of mockups here to show you, um, I just feel that doing a mock-up is the Ultimate Tasks. And I even combined with two different versions of a pattern created with the original geometric that we did. And then I did the circular one. I like combining them also gives me an idea of how that might look and trying it on different mock-ups that have different scale. So this is a large, large, large scale. And I did yellow, kind of a geometric pattern to test on that one. There's circles that we just completed as wallpaper. I think that looks great. Then that same sort of yellow repeat. And you know, at this point I'm just experimenting with different looks. I find that seeing them on several different mockups is my number one best way for testing. You can also test the scale of it that way too. So that's a good thing to keep in mind. I've got some that are quite a bit more small-scale. So this one is way smaller than its counterpart here in a very large scale. So those are things you can do to experiment with how big you'd like that scale to be for, let's say fabrics on Spoonflower. I really had fun experimenting with this. And in the end, I was able to create almost like a full coordinate set here, I've got sort of a main color pattern type thing that I was working with and that all of the other colors that I created definitely worked in well to the collection. So think about that when you're doing your mockups and do some experimenting, I'd love to see you post. I've finished pattern on a mock-up like this just to see that you've gone through the whole process. Alright, I think that's it for today's class and I will meet you in the wrap-up. See you there. 9. Closing Thoughts and Wrap Up: Hey guys, thanks so much for sticking it out. By the end of this class, I hope you've rewarded with a bunch of finished pattern swatches. Now that you know how easy it is, you can create coordinate patterns for a lot of your pattern collections. That's the main reason I do this is just so that I can have another way of creating a coordinate for a pattern design collection. Now if you haven't done so already, make sure you hit that follow button up there. That way you will be informed of any of my new classes as I post them. I may not be posting every single week and this next month or two because I have that surgery coming up, but Hopefully I'll get back into the swing of it as quickly as possible. Also, if you don't mind, can you leave me a little bit of a review? 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