Hand-Drawn Seamless Patterns in Photoshop

1. Introduction: I I I Hi, I'm Heather and welcome to my class on hand drawn seamless patterns completely within Photoshop. I am a photographer, digital artist, illustrator, sist and honestly just a lifelong creative. I love learning new skills and finding ways to bring all of those skills together. One of those interests is surface pattern design. When I started learning surface design, I noticed that most tutorials were all about Procreate or Adobe Fresco. Those are great programs, but my creative home has always been Adobe Photoshop. I wanted to develop a workflow where I could draw, paint, and design completely within Photoshop. One of the best things about surface design in Photoshop is their pattern preview feature. This feature allows you to actually see your pattern develop on the canvas while you're working. And that's exactly what I'm going to teach you in this class. We'll start at the beginning, and I'll show you how to set up your Photoshop workspace, your working file, all the tools that we'll be using within Photoshop, as well as how to upload your brushes. And use the templates that you will get with this course. Then we'll get into the real fun part. We'll gather inspiration, talk about colour palette, sketch our elements, paint them, and learn to rearrange them into a pattern. I'll show you Photoshop's pattern preview to test how your pattern will look, make adjustments, try different color backgrounds and variations, and export your finished pattern. Also try some fun with mockups so that you can see your pattern come to life on different fabrics, home decor, stationery, and whatever else you can dream of. You do not have to be an expert illustrator or Photoshop user. I'll walk you through my entire process step by step. I want you to leave this class with the tools to create patterns again and again. Your own style. You can find more of my creative artwork online at Gets Life Creates, where I share illustrations, sewing, crafting, and other creative projects. If you're interested in checking out my photography or digital artwork, you can find that at Getzlaf Photo. Alright, now open up Photoshop, grab your drawing tablet if you use one, and let's get started. 2. Class Project: I I now let's talk about your class project. For this class, your project is pretty simple. Create your own pattern within Photoshop. You can follow along with me and create something very similar or just take what you learn in this class and create something completely your own. Choose a theme that inspires you, draw the elements and turn those elements into your own pattern. Now, you can upload your finished pattern, but I would love to see some of your creative process. You can share some of your original sketches, share your colour palette and inspiration, or you can share different variations of the pattern that you designed. And if you ended up making a mock up with your pattern, I would absolutely love to see your design on some fabric, clothing, wallpaper, stationery, wrapping paper, whatever you want to share. Remember that this is not about creating the perfect pattern. It's about learning a process and creating something that feels like you. Once you've finished, upload your project onto the project gallery here on Skillshare. I would absolutely love to see what you design. So please remember to share it with me and the other students. Now, let's get into Photoshop and start making your pattern. 3. Setting Up Your File: All right, so Lesson one, we are going to set up our Photoshop and our workspace for our pattern design. Okay, so the very first thing we want to do in once we have Photoshop open here, we're going to make a new file. So right up here, it says New File. Yeah, so we'll click that. And when we're making a pattern design, we always want to work in a square dimension. So for this one, we are going to do the 200 by 200 300 DPI or PPI, I mean. So let's title this one. I think I'm going to work with fruit again today, just like I did with the oranges and lemons. So I'm going to say, I'm going to call this fruit One. And it's square 300 pixels. We're going to work in 16 bit, 16 bit versus eight bit. It just gives you a little more color range. That's why we're going to work in a 16 bit. It's going to be a white background, and we're going to work in the SRGB workspace, okay. I like to do the working RGB workspace and then square pixels. Okay? So that's the file we're going to open up. 4. Setting Up Photoshop: Alright, so now we have our file here to start. Now I'm going to just kind of go over the workspace. So I have it. If you go up to Windows at the top, I have the workspace under painting right now. Sometimes I'll be working in photography because I also do photography as well. So I will click photography. This is the workspace that I have set up for that. And then you go up to Windows. You can change it. So you might when you first open up Photoshop, if you've never opened Photoshop before, it's going to look like this. It's going to have the default settings on here. So to get your workspace to look like my workspace, you want to just go up to windows, workspace, and go to painting. And that's going to have the way it's going to have it is going to have your swatches here. This is just, like, a tiny little picture of whatever you're drawing. So I always keep it on swatches because it'll be easy for me to say, I want to do a pastel colors. You know, you've got all your pastels here. It's handy having that up there. The next thing below that is going to be all of your brushes, okay? So you're going to have all your brushes here, and here is going to be your layers panel. So this is your background, and we've opened that up. 5. Photoshop Tools: Et's actually go over some of the tools that we're going to be using in Photoshop. So the very first tool that we're going to be using a lot of is the layers. So I'll explain what we're going to do here. So I never draw anything on the background layer. I'm always drawing it on a new layer. Each thing I draw is on its own layer, and each paint that I put on top of that is going to be on its own layer as well. So we're using a lot of layers. So down here in the corner, we're going to add a new layer just by hitting this little plus button here. And right now, it just says layer one. We want to rename that. So if you just double click on it, you can change the title, and I'm going to put this as base drawing, I guess. The tools that we're going to be using on the left hand side of the screen right here, I'm going to go up to my brush. When you're on your brush panel, you're going to have all of the different brush tools up here. Or you could work in this panel here. I'm not going to use the brushes that you get in the pack because I'm going to show you how to upload those and use those ones in a different lesson. But I'm just going to click on just a regular round brush just to show you how we're going to work at this, okay? So I've got my brush here. I'm going to draw, like, a little smiley face. Okay? Um, so that's the brush tool. We're just going to use the brush tool here. If we want to go to the eraser tool, which is right here and say we made a mistake and we need to erase something. Okay? If you don't like that it's only erasing a little bit, you want to erase the entire thing. The problem is in this tool right here, okay? So you're going to click that one off and it'll just fully erase it. That's the eraser tool. Pretty simple. All right, so say you draw something, we're going to go back to the brush. Say you draw a little smiley face. You accidentally draw something else like, say, a leaf. Okay. You draw this leaf, but it's on the same layer, and you need to move it. Okay. What we're going to do is we're actually going to use a lasso tool, okay? We're going to select this with the Lasso tool all the way around. And then what you're going to do is you're going to hit Control C, and then you're going to go Control B, okay? You're copying and pasting. So now you have this on its own layer. You can go back to the other layer, get your eraser tool, and erase the other leaf. So now you can move these things with the move tool. Okay? The move tool here is going to allow you to move these things around, and it's not going to mess up your other layers. Because what would happen is if you drew something on the same layer and you need to move it. It's going to move all of those pieces. The next tool we will also be using is the Transform tool. So basically what you want to do with transform tool is you click on the layer where your little smiley face is here. And if you hit Control T, you're going to get this box around it, and you're going to be able to resize. Okay? You got to be careful, though, with resizing because you could scrunch it or you can stretch it. To avoid that, you would just go up to here and click this little link, and it will stay like that. Or you just hit Shift as you're moving it, and it's going to keep its form. It's not going to deform it or anything like that. One other tool I should mention is the Swatch tool, which is right in this corner. This is where all of our paint is going to be. So if you have a new layer, let's just go to a new layer here, and you want to draw something, but you want to change the color, you just double click in the square. And it'll bring this color picker up here, okay? If you want to say you want it to be the same color as something you've already drawn, then come up you can see this little eyedropper here and you can just click on it on the color that you want to draw. It's going to switch it. It's going to put it to that color. Or, you know, you can just says you don't have that color. You can use this little dial here to go to your pinks, blues, say I want a green color. I already got a green color. Let's say, blue, kind of a bluish, a dark blue color. And you can just hit Okay, go back to your brush and draw a little thing. Okay? Alright, so that's kind of the basic tools we're gonna be using if another tool pops up while we're drawing, I will explain how it's used. If you make a mistake, an easy way to take a step back is you hit Control or Command Z, and it's going to undo the last things that you did. Okay? Alright. In the next lesson, we are going to start designing our project. 6. Finding Inspiration: Since I am doing a fruit design for this one, I wanted to do, like, some cherries, and I'll probably bring in the lemons and the oranges that I had previously used. But I will start by sketching the cherry just so you guys see the process of how I draw it in Photoshop. But yeah, so obviously, Pinterest is a great way to come up with ideas or inspiration for your artwork. Obviously, you don't want to outright copy someone else, but you can definitely use that as inspo or inspiration. And you can also find cool color palettes and such in Pintst as well or to get inspiration and ideas of what colors to use. So we're going to start by talking about our colors and how to find it. So I'm actually going to type in here like cherry fruit, colour palette. Ooh. Colour palette. Okay. So I'm going to hit Enter there. And as you can see, it brings up some colour palette ideas that you can easily use, okay? Another really awesome way to find color palettes if, say, you don't really have an idea of what you want to draw. So sometimes finding the colour palette can actually really help you come up would give you inspiration of something to draw. Adobe has this really awesome program here that you can use, which is a colour palette colour palette generator. And it's got all the different types of, you know, they have the what it's called analogous colour palette where they're in the same color range, but just different tones of it, complimentary, complimentary split. So there's lots of different options. Once you pick which type of color range you want, you can hit generate randomly, and it will kind of pick some different tones and different colors that you can use, which is really fun. Another cool way to use this is say you're on Pintrs and you couldn't find a colour palette of what you wanted, okay? And you could just look up cherry fruit. Um, Or say you wanted kind of a vintage vibe? Let's just see. Go to spell it correctly. Vintage. Say you wanted a vintage vibe, colors, and that um no offense to Adobe, but they don't really have muted tones in their colour palette. A lot of the times it's super bright colors. And if you're going for a vintage tone, a lot of the times, they're very muted colors. I really like the strawberry colors here, okay? So what you could do is kind of copy this color. Obviously, you don't want to, like, straight up use this person's artwork, but we're just doing it to get a color idea, okay? So we're going to download the image just to do this part. And what you can do is you can actually go to where was that again? Oh, you can go up here to Image. And you can actually upload your inspiration image. Who Image. And it will generate a colour palette for you. We're gonna use this cherry here as inspiration. And that's a pretty cool colour palette for that. So, um, what I kind of want, though, is instead of the white, I'm going to bring up more of, like, this yellow in here because then it'll tie into the lemons that I was going to add into it, as well. So yeah, let's do that. What we want to do next is we want to create with this. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna go create with my colour palette. Oh, I got to sign in. Now that I'm signed in, it's going to bring up your colour palette here. You can just hit Save. And it's got this, funny little design here. But what you can do is you can click on each of these, and you can change the color to go with your theme for all of these things. Okay. Oops. I messed up there. Click on that. There we go. Ah. We already got that red, so we need this red and yellow n n. Sorry, yes, we need that red. This blue. We need the yellow. Okay, and this orange. Let's change this back to the bright red because we only have this teeny little palette here. Okay, so this is the colour palette. And what we're gonna do is we're going to actually share this. And I'll add this colour palette into the files as well. If you guys want to follow along drawing the cherry, then you can do that. Alright, so then we just want to download this file. And we'll use the PNG because if you save it as a JPEG, you won't be able to select the files in Photoshop, so it needs to actually be a PNG to work. So save it as a PNG, and we'll download that. And I'm just gonna save this on my computer for us to bring up in Photoshop and get our colour palette set up. 7. Using The Templates: Bring your inspiration on your board here. We're actually going to go file and place embedded. Okay? And then you're going to look for your cherry. Okay. We're just going to use this as our inspiration. There it is. Okay. All right, so now that it's in here, we're going to hit Control T. And we're just going to resize this, make it teeny, tiny. Just put it off in the corner somewhere. Okay. Then hit Enter. Alright, so this is just a inspiration for these cherries here. What I also want to do is I'm going to make a new layer and I'm going to bring in one of the templates that I gave you guys in the files as well, okay? So we're going to go up to Place Embedded again. I'm going to open up the square pattern, okay? So we'll place this one. And we're just going to resize it to fit our screen and hit Enter. And then what we're going to do is we're going to turn the opacity on this layer. So make sure you have this layer selected down here. We're going to turn the opacity down just so we can still see it, but it's not distracting us from what we're trying to draw. Okay? In the next lesson, we're going to bring in those brushes that I gave you in the files. I'll show you how to upload them into your Photoshop. Let's get going. 8. Using The Brushes: First thing I'm going to do is I'm going to make sure that I have a new layer that I want to start drawing on, okay? And I'm going to call this layer cherry. Okay. So let's bring in those brushes. So what you want to do is you want to go to your brushes. So make sure that you are clicked on your brushes on the panel here, and you're going to go up to this little arrow that is beside the What is this? The, like, brush that you're using. You're going to hit this little arrow, and it's going to open up your brush palette. It's basically the same palette as this one over here. Okay. And you're going to go to this little wheel. And you're going to go to Import brushes. The other way you can do that is by clicking the little three thing here and then hit Import brushes. So once you have those downloaded to your computer, then you can go into click on the GetSef Creates brushes and then load those into your account. So then once you're in your palette, you can see that I have the new brush folder right here, and you've got your four brushes that you can use. 9. Sketching Your Motifs: Alright, so now that you have your four brushes, we can actually start drawing. The very first brush that I like to use is the pencil brush. So we're gonna click on the pencil brush. So the way that this template works is you have got these larger circles here. That represent the larger elements of your pattern. Then you have these smaller ones here that are more like a medium sized element, and then you have your little filler elements, that's going to be the triangles. So it's just a way of placing your elements to kind of make a cohesive and well placed pattern. Okay? So what I want to do is show you how we're going to see the pattern kind of come together, okay? So what we need to do is first turn on the repeating pattern preview. Okay? So when you have this all set up like this, you're going to go up to view, and you're going to go to Pattern Preview and click that. This is fine. It works best with smart objects, hit Okay. And then now you can see our repeating pattern, okay? And if you zoom out, it just keeps going and going and going. Within this blue box is your artboard. Okay. So anything that you draw on here, um is going to get put into your pattern over on this edge here. Yeah. I just want to show you something before we get started is that you're drawing and you draw an element in the corner here. Sara let's just draw a heart or something. Okay. And then say you decide that you want to resize it or move that heart. We're going to hit Control and it's going to bring up your boxes. But as you can see, you can't move it. You can't move it because it's going to split it up. It's going to mess up your pattern. So when you're drawing your elements, you want to make sure you're drawing your elements in the center. And then, you know, sometimes with patterns, you're going to have one or two of the same element. So I would copy that, and I'll show you what I mean. So let's just hit the Control Z button a few times. So I'm going to say draw my heart in here, okay? I have my element. I want to resize it. I hit Control I resize it. Hit Enter. Say I want to make a copy of this. I can just take this layer and I can copy it and hit Control Now I've got two of that element, and I can resize it. I can make it go a different way. Whatever you want to do. Okay? The other thing that I'm going to show you is if you move it to here, and then you say you decide you want to move it somewhere else, that's also not going to work. So we'll copy this. We'll hit Control T. We'll put it here, Enter. Now say I copy this one. Hit Control it's going to bring up four of those elements. So yeah, you want to make sure that you're drawing everything in the middle here and you're copying the elements from the center, okay? And you can place them in the corners, but you won't be able to move those corner pieces again. And we're going to zoom in here. We're going to make our pencil brush pretty small because I like to sketch it. Um, with a small brush. Alright, so we're just going to use this as a inspiration, okay, so that I can get the cherry shape correct. So let's just start by sketching our cherry here. Okay. Okay. No loving that. Okay. I'm gonna grab my eraser because I don't love I don't love this part. So I'm just gonna delete that. For now, I may change it. Go back to my pen here. So this is our cherry sketch so far. Okay. And then we have a leaf coming off here. Okay. All right, so that's basically it. So let's put our little shine spot in here. A little shine spot in here. Okay. I don't love that top. Let's erase that for a sec. Where's my eraser? There it is. Don't love this. I must do, like, a little knot of some sort at the top. Okay. Okay. That's better. And then we've got some pretty faint lines from the leaf coming up this way. Alright. So now that we have our cherry drawing. Let's go control tea, and then you can, like, rearrange the size. So, oops. Remember to hit Shift. Okay, so we got our little cherry drawing here. Alright. And as you can see, when I zoom out, now I've got a cherry and all of those things. Alright, we're gonna draw one more cherry. So I'm going to name this one cherry one. And then we'll add another one, call it cherry two. And we're just gonna draw, like, a single stemmed cherry. And Just a rough sketch of it. Okay. There we go. We got to our two cherries. Okay. So now we can actually just drag the inspo cherries to the trash can here in the corner and get rid of those. Alright, so I actually have this one that I had done the other day, and I'm going to actually take some of my linework and elements from this one to put into the cherry one. So I just wanted to show you how you can do that. Okay? So we're going to grab our Lasso tool and just circle one of our oranges here. Okay, once you get these little marching ants, we're going to go up to the move tool. And as you can see, it's now I can move this line work. And all I'm going to do is I'm going to drag it up to my cherry and then drag it in and drop it. And it's going to make a new layer of that. And if you go back, it didn't mess up anything with your art. Okay? So that's pretty awesome. So we're going to do the same with Ooh. Control D to deselect. We're going to do the same with our big lemon here. Oh, I'm on the wrong layer. Line work. There we go. We want to go to our lasso again and circle our lemon and get those marching ants, go up to the move tool, select it and drag it and drop it. Okay. This is my clean art lines. So yeah. And it doesn't matter where you place it because right now they're both on their own layers. So we're going to call this one orange. Or maybe we'll call it full orange. Full lemon. And then maybe we'll just bring in one of the wedges. Like one of these ones and one of these ones. Okay, so let's select our wedge. Oh, I can't do that one. It has to be the center one, so we'll select this wedge. Go up to move and drag it and drop it in the middle. Okay, and go back to last so, grab this wedge. And drag it and drop it. Alright. So now we can go wedge we'll call this wedge one. We call this one wedge two. Okay. So now we are able to kind of figure out where we want to put some of these. So we have a fairly large Oop. Make sure we're on the right layer, full orange. Click on the full orange layer to move it. I keep accidentally selecting the background. Why? Well, I have to hit Control Tea. There we go. There, now I'm on it. Okay. So we have our orange here. Let's kind of rearrange. How do we want this orange to be? Actually, I think I liked it like this. Okay? Now, go to full lemon, control tea. Um, let's put the full lemon here or actually, let's put it up in here. And you can always rearrange sizes and whatnot later, too. Sad. Go to wedge one. And I don't know. Let's move it that way. Okay. Wedge two, control tea. This one is kind of smaller, and I think I'm going to make it smaller. Gonna have it going this way. So now that we're covering our cherries, we need to figure out something different with those. So let's go cherry two first. Control tea. And let's move that one here. Okay. And cherry one. Control T. I'm just gonna kind of move it. Um, right there for now. We can figure out what to do with the other cherry here. Maybe we want to put it, like like that and put our other cherry here. Just for now, we'll probably rearrange some stuff. I just want to make sure that all of the elements are still within that confined box, 'cause I don't want to mess anything up there. Alright, so now let's just turn off our template here and zoom out, and you can kind of see where this pattern is going. Exciting. Okay. Alright, so let's start by drawing our cherries here. We can turn this back. We can keep this off for now. So we're gonna do a new layer, and we're going to say cherry one, clean lines. I just like to have all my layers labeled. Because otherwise, I forget what layer is what? So cherry sketch sorry. Cherry two. Sketch. And we're gonna put another new layer over that one. So when I'm making a new layer, I'm just clicking the plus button here. And we're going to call this one Cherry to clean lines. Okay. Alright, so let's go to our first Cherry one clean lines. We're just going to zoom in here. And we're going to go to our brush. I like to use my round sketch one. So let's start with that brush and just see how we're liking it. So, I like to just make sure that I'm keeping pretty clean. I go a lot slower, obviously. With these when I'm doing the sketch here. I just want to close off. Yeah. Oh, you know what? I accidentally used blue there. I'm like, Why does the color look weird? Okay, we're just gonna hit Control Z a couple of times to get rid of that. We want it to be on our black palette. You can just if you keep making mistakes, just keep hitting Control's to go back. Um, I'm just gonna do, like, a little line here. Just very subtle little lines for that because we're going to be, um adding the shine with, like, the paint. So I'm not really worrying too much about having that little shine on the cherry. I want to make sure that this one looks like it's in behind the other All right. And you can turn off your sketch just to see how it's looking. Definitely looks a lot cleaner. That's good. All right Yeah, that looks pretty good. Okay, we'll leave that. Okay. That's looking pretty good. All right. So now we want to go to do our second sherry here. That we have our clean lines. We can actually delete your sketch lines. So we're going to click, make sure you're on the right one. So we're going to delete this, so we're going to drag it down to our little trash can in the corner. And then we're going to find our first sketch and drag that one to the trash can in the corner. All right. 10. Arranging Your Pattern: We can turn this back on. Okay, so the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to copy our first cherry right here. So I'm going to take the cherry one and drag it to this little plus sign to make a copy. And we're going to hit Control T, and we can move it wherever we want. So I'm kind of thinking it'd be good, like in this box. Just hit Shift and make it larger here. Actually, that's putting it really close to this one. Maybe we want it in the corner here. Yeah, I think we do. We want it in the corner. Let's just zoom out. Before I hit Enter, we'll zoom out and see. I think I like that. So we'll hit Enter. And then we'll go to our Cherry two, and again, copy that. We're going to drag it to the plus sign, to hit Control And what I'm going to do for this one is I'm going to flip it horizontally, so you go up to Edit, you go to transform, and then you flip horizontal. We're going to hit Control T again just to make sure we have it selected, and we can drag this one anywhere. We would like. Let's do it like this. Or maybe we want it upside down. Can shift to resize it, make it a little smaller. Okay, and hit Enter. All right. Now, I think we want to add either one more orange or one more lemon in there. I think we'll do the wedge, the first wedge, copy that. Hit Control T, and we're going to have it going a different direction. I want to make sure that none of our elements are touching. Okay, so we'll hit Enter on that. And for the last one, we will use the small wedge wedge two. Okay, Control T. And we can make it a little smaller and hit Enter there. All right, so I'm going to zoom out And let's turn off our template. So we're going to find our template in our layers and hit this little eyeball, and it's going to hide it. And you can look at your pattern and decide how maybe some of the elements need to be changed. I feel like this wedge right here needs to get changed. So that one was wedge one. We're gonna hit Control T. And I'm going to, like, turn it. Ooh. Hit Control Z 'cause I accidentally like, made it weird. So we're gonna turn it like this. I feel like it just needs to fill up the space a bit better. And I think this little wedge here needs to get changed a bit. That one was, Oh, no. We're going to delete that one because if I try to move it, it's gonna mess up them all. And maybe if I resize it, let's try resizing it just to see if it's possible. Nope. Okay, so we have to delete that one and try again. So we'll just copy wedge two again, hit Control T, and move it over here. Make it go a different direction, maybe even upside down. And I'm thinking this one actually needs to be slightly bigger. So we're gonna hit Shift and try to just resize it a little. Okay. Now, the next one I'm noticing needs to be larger is this one here, the cherry. So go back to cherry two and the copy one. And we're gonna hit Shift and make it bigger again. I thought maybe changing the size would be good, but, um, I don't like it. Alright. So that's looking really awesome, right? You can see the pattern is starting to repeat. The other thing you can do is if you don't like all of this kind of empty space, you could just, like, go in, add a new layer. And we can just say this. Call this fill fill. And you could fill it in with something with anything you want, really. So let's get like, maybe we want to do some poka dots or something. You could just do Like, something like that, right? If you want it. I'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna delete this layer. Alright. In the next lesson, we will start painting our fruit. 11. Creating Your Paint Palette: We're going to bring in our colour palette. We're going to find it in our files, click it and hit Open. It's going to open a new tab here at the top. So right now, we got our colour palette and you go over here, we got our fruit palette. Okay? So what we're going to do is we're actually going to go into here, and it'll bring up our little eyedropper, and we can pick our colors. I think we'll start with the lightest red. Okay, we're going to hit Okay. It's going to bring up our most recent colors up in the colour palette here. Okay. But what you could do is you can actually make a new group and say we want to make this called cherry colour palette. We'll just call it cherry, and we'll hit Okay. And now we're going to take this color. The color that we're on here, this red. And we're going to just hit the plus button, and it's going to bring up that color the watch, okay? You can name it whatever you want. Cherry base. Okay. And we'll hit Okay. And so now it's in this folder. So I'm going to do that with all of these colors so that I have some easy swatches for us to select our colors. I Okay, so since we also have oranges and we have lemons, I need to bring up my colour palette from the last artwork because I want to use similar colors. I'm just going to bring in these oranges and this yellow. So I can close both of these. I've got my swatches. As you can see, they're still up 12. Painting Your Motifs: We can go down here. We're going to click on Background. I'm going to actually delete this now. We don't need our pattern template anymore, so I'm gonna delete it. I'm gonna click on Background. I'm going to add another layer just above our background. And I'm going to call this background. Color. Reason I put it on a different layer is because it would be easier for us to change the background colors if we want to. So that's why I do it on a separate layer. So you can now go down to this little ball here at the bottom, and you can add a solid color onto this layer. And we're going to just kind of we're going to be using that for the other one. So I'm going to use this, like, yellow for the background, I guess, right now. And or maybe we could do a form of this. Maybe we'll go, like, a little later. Let's start there. If we want to change it, we can change it later. So let's go to our cherries. We're going to bring up our red. And I want to bring up the round paint brush. And with this paint brush, because it's going to simulate paint or like a watercolor. So I'm going to show you what would happen if you say paint, and then you go and paint again. You can see that it's making lines because it's simulating paint. So when you're painting a watercolor, you put down a coat and if you were to go put another coat down. It's going to leave marks like this. So we're just going to hit backspace and delete that. We also over top oh, sorry, under our line drawing, we want to make another layer. And I'm going to call this cherry paint. And we're going to hold our pen down and color in the cherries. And remember, this is supposed to be, like, a painting. So if it goes a little outside the lines, I wouldn't worry about it. Kind of adds to the hand drawn elements of your drawing. So we're gonna do that again. But if you say, do too much of an outline and you don't want it going over, you can just go to your eraser and just erase that and say you don't want it there, I can erase it and go back to our brush. On your keyboard, you can adjust the size of your brush just by hitting the brackets. So if you do your left bracket, it's going to make it smaller. If you do your right bracket, it'll make it bigger. So that's how I'm resizing my brush really quickly if you are wondering. Just go to get some paint in there. Alright, so now for the shadows, let's go to our darker red and paint our shadows in. Okay, and then what you could do with our smudge brush. We have our smudge brush here. Oh. You can then go in and kind of, like, soften your shadows a bit if you want to. So I did this on the same layer, but you don't have to. You could do your shadows on a separate layer, and if you did that here, I'll just show you. I'm going to make another layer. I would name it like cherry shadow, and then let's go back to our paint brush, and I'll just paint some lines in here simulating the shadow. And what you could do is you could actually go up to opacity here. If you don't like how dark it is, you can always take the opacity down and lighten it. So that's another option for the painting. Alright, so for the highlights on our cherries, I'm going to go into, like, this brighter red. And I'm going to, like, go to almost like a pink or just, like, a little bit lighter color and paint that in on the highlights. And you could even go smaller and lighter and do it again. Alright, I'm going to make another layer. I'm gonna say stem and it enter. And we're gonna go with this green color. I'm just gonna paint in the entire leaf and stem. Ooh, ooh. I made my brush way too big. A And on that cherry picture, there was, like, some shine right in here. So I'm gonna I'm gonna add that as well. Go back to the lighter pinkish color that I was using. And we're just going to add some bigger shine spots on these cherries. Mm. And just keep doing it until you like what you do. Okay. And then we want to go to the really m. Just. Add a bit more in there. There. Actually, I really liked that Okay. And you know what else? I want to go back to the linework paint, stem cherry line, and I don't like the lines I put there, so just these ones. I'm gonna delete them. Okay. There. All right. So that is painting our cherries. I'm going to go ahead and paint the rest of this, and then we can move on to the next steps. All right. So we have got our pattern. Yay. It's all painted. And as you can see, it just continues and continues and continues. Yeah, it's a really awesome tool in Photoshop, with the preview one. And you can also always turn the preview off. You just go back up to view and hit Pattern Preview. So this is what the file will look like once we export it. And we're going to export that now. 13. Exporting Your Pattern: Besides the PSD file, we want to save two more. We want to save a PNG, where you can actually save the background to be transparent. So if somebody wants to change the color of the background and have something else show through the back, you want it to be transparent. So a PNG is perfect for that. And then the second file that we want to save it as, or I guess, third file we want to save it as is a JPEG. And the JPEG is going to be the file that you can upload to like Spoonflower or other like product printing places that use surface patterns, okay? So that's what you want to save it as. Is a JPEG for that. So let's start with the PNG file. And what we're going to do for the PNG is we actually want to just delete our backgrounds. Okay. So this is our transparent background. So right now, it's just all of those little elements, and they can put in whatever color they want underneath. So like if I was to add another file here. I could change this background to any color I want, could be black. It could be pink. You know, you can change it to whatever you want. So that's why we want a transparent background. All right. So we're going to go up to file, and we're going to go to Export, and we want to export as and we're going to actually export this as a PNG, and we want to have this transparency button clicked. Okay. And we can just leave all the rest of this alone, and we'll export that file. Right, so now we can actually go up to our history, which is in the corner here. And before we deleted those layers, we want to we saved it as a pattern preview. And by the way, I did end up changing the background color because the background color I had originally was really close to this, like, darker yellow, and I wanted to not have them so close and shade. So I did change the background color, and we're going to export this one Export. Export As. And we're gonna have this one as a JPEG this time. We want to keep the size in because we want the file to be large enough pixels for people to print it on things and have enough not get pixelated and weird. Okay. Technical terms there. And save it as a JPEG. Alright, and that is how you want to export your files. 14. Creating Your Collection: Alright, so the next thing I want to show you is how you can bring these elements in and make cohesive collection of backgrounds, okay? So we've got two fruit backgrounds with oranges and lemons. You can take those elements and make the new background. So we're going to go New file, same size 2000 by 2000. We'll create that. Now we're going to go back to open, and we want to open up our PNG file that we saved. Okay. And remember, it's got a transparent background, and we're going to open up my other PNG. Okay. So now we have our two PNG files open. So we're going to open up the other template, and we'll go up to file and then place embedded and find your template. And we're gonna hit Shift and resize this to fit and hit Enter. My computer is making noises at me. Alright. And we're going to put this layer. We're going to go to opacity and make it quite light. Alright, so this is basically how we'd have our patterns. Let's go to view and then pattern preview. Hit Okay. All right. So this is our pattern placement for what I call a diamond layout. And we're going to bring in some of these fruit. And how we're doing this is we're going to just circle the elements we want to bring in. So I'm going to bring in the big orange. Remember, we just drag it up and drop it on, hit Control and then hit Shift, and we can resize our orange. Okay. And I'm going to copy this. Control And we're going to move this. Try to rotate this guy going a different direction. Place it somewhere else. Okay, and then now we want to copy that again. Alright, let's bring over our lemon. Now I'm going to group these Control G, and we're gonna call this group lemons. Lemons. All right. And then we are going to now bring in some wedges. Let's bring this in. And that's pretty cute how it is, but I want to change a few of these. Yeah, let's do I'll do three of these. So over this one, we're going to go down to the circle here and we're going to go to hue and saturation, and we're going to change the color of all of the oranges in here. So we need to right click on this and bring up your created clipping mask. So it's just going to affect this folder here. And we're going to go to the yellows, and we're just going to see if we can change them to be orange. And there we go. If we turn off pattern preview, so you go up to view, turn off pattern preview. This would be our pattern. We need to delete our template, and there we go. So now you can change the color background to any color you want, and you have another pattern to go with this orange and lemon slice. 15. Testing Your Pattern: I'm going to show you how you can make your pattern smaller so that when you are using it on a product, you can have more of your pattern showing. So I'm going to do that right now. So I'm just going to open the 2000 by 2001, again, a new one. All right. So we're going to put our ruler, make the snap in the middle here. Bring the ruler over on this side. So I just went up to this ruler bar here, dragged it down to the middle, ruler bar on the side, dragged it over. If you don't see your rulers, you can go up to view and then just make sure that this little checkmark is on here. All right. So now we're gonna drag or bring in our thing. We're going to place embedded of the fruit that we had done. And we're gonna hit Control Let's make sure that this little lock is on at the top here, and we're just going to snap it. And we're gonna copy this, hit Control slide it over. Snap. Control And then to clear your guides, you just go up to view, go to guides, and then clear guides. All right. And then we have our pattern that is a little bit larger. So I have it as I'm going to save this now. Go file export. And then we're just going to export this one as a JPEG. Okay. Fruit I'm going to call this one fruit one small export. And then you can continue and do that with all your other ones as well. 16. Ways To Print Your Patterns: I wanted to talk a little bit about printing your own fabric with your pattern. So I just printed some cute little Christmas fabric which I'm going to create a child's Christmas dress out of. And I used Print tree for that. I'm going to kind of go over how I created my fabric in the pin tree. So this is Print tree's website, and all you don't even have to have an account for this. You can just go create fabric. You do have to click that you own the rights and permission to upload anything. So we're going to we'll start with the fabric we created, I guess. We'll stick that in the print tree. And then it basically will pop up with what your pattern is going to look like on the fabric. And you can pick a cotton, and they have all these different types of cotton fabric that you can choose from, same with polyester, and same with silk. You can choose how you want your fabric to look. But, yeah, you just kind of want to stick with basic finishing options. You can add on an overlock or any of that. But you also don't have to add those on as well. You say add to cart. And then you can check out from there. I'm going to then go over the very popular website, which is spoon flower. If you're into pattern design, this is a huge website that a lot of pattern designers use and put their patterns on. If you want to upload your fabric into Spoon flower, you have to have an account to do that. How I found to create an account was I scrolled all the way to the bottom on the homepage, and they have this four artist section, and I went to upload a design. Then you can just hit Choose Files. But if you don't have an account, what's going to pop up is a is create an account. But for me, I've already done that. So I'm going to now that I hit it, it's going to pop open my files, so we can add our pattern in here, read over the terms, hit Continue. And then you'll get into your account here. If you're using spoon flour for your own personal purposes, then you can just keep your file private. You don't need to put it up for sale, or you can put it on sale for other people. So obviously, you do have to verify that you have the ability to sell this product. Um, but then they give you all of these options of how you want it printed. You can just print it straight up on fabric, which is probably what I'm going to do I want to test out spoon flour, as well as pri tree just to test quality. Wallpaper. They got curtains, pillows, napkins, like a sheet set, like so many products. And now I'm going to go over to Printifi because I've used Printify before. I've tested mugs, T shirts from them. And all of their stuff is, like, very good quality and they're super easy to use. You do have to have account to use them. They do have a free, you know, get started for free. I think it's just like a seven day testing thing, but you can go in and sign up for that. I do have an account, so I'm just going to log in real quick. Right, so once you're logged in, um you can go to, like, a created catalog, and it will come up with all the different types of products that they offer. They have men's clothes, women's clothes, kids clothes. They have all these different types of accessories. And you can create your own catalog. And what's cool about Printify if you have patterns that you want to put on products and sell those products in your Et C or your Shopify account, then it links straight up to your catalog on Printify and basically, people can order off of those websites, and Printify will automatically just do those orders for you. Once you've got it in your shop, you don't have to do anything else. If someone makes a purchase, Printify will take care of it. They'll print it. They'll ship it. They'll do all of that. So it's a really cool website if you are wanting to sell products. 17. Creating Mockups: Now that our product is finished, tested, and ready to be used, I want to share with you one of my favorite parts of the process, and that is actually seeing our pattern come to life on a product. Creating a pattern mockup isn't necessary for pattern making process, but it is a really useful way to visualize how your pattern is going to look on fabric, home decor, cups, all sorts of things. Mockus are a really great way to share your pattern online on social media. You can add them to your portfolio or eventually sell it as a surface pattern design. We're going to get into creating mockups and you can actually create a mockup through print bi. How you would do that is you can pick the thing you want to make. I'm going to do a phone case as an example. So you can just pick any phone case, really. I'm going to pick, say, this magnetic phone case here, then you'd scroll down to start designing. Then pop up with the screen to help you design your product. You will go over to this panel on this side. To bring your print in, you're just going to hit Upload. You're going to go my device, bring in your product that we made. And then you can just resize your pattern to fit in the center here. Okay. And then what you can do is you can actually go to preview, and it'll bring up these, like, different mockup pictures of a phone case. And it's really neat. You don't even have to actually make this product. You can just download the mockup here, and you just hit Download from this corner. And it'll download it to your computer. If you're just selling your pattern in Etsy and you just want an example of what the pattern would look like on a product, then you have your mockup. So that's how you can use Printifi to create a mockup. Now, the next mock option is going to be a little controversial because I think a lot of artists really hate AI. I do hate AI, but sometimes it can come in handy for mockup pictures. When you open up Firefly, it's going to look like this. And you just want to go to the left side panel here to image and then generate image. I always just leave these things alone unless you want a very specific type of sizing ratio. Then you would hit this little reference image, and you'd go to your device. You'd click your image here that you want to use. And you go down to here where it says prompt, and you're just going to type in what you want Firefly to create for you. And there you have it. You have your mockup with your pattern on it. To download this, you just put your mouse over the image, and you're going to go to the right hand corner where it says download right here, and then it'll download to your computer. I want to create one different pattern that I made. So I'm going to use we could use the other orange one that I made earlier in the course. Because sometimes I like to use this just as ideas to give myself ideas of what kind of dress I could create with this. So I'll actually take this AI thing and turn it into a real dress later with my fabric. This is super cute. I love the green and pink and what they did with this, so I totally make this. And honestly, after all this time of, like, referencing and drawing and painting, it's cool to really see it visually on a product. One last thing that I wanted to talk about in this lesson. Is that mockups digital mockups are a great way to visualize your pattern, but another option is to actually have something physically made for you. You could consider looking in your community for other artists that you could collaborate with. Like, maybe you know a so as who could turn your printed fabric into a bag or a dress. Maybe you know a ceramic artist that could apply your pattern onto a mug. You could either purchase the finished product from them, trade services, or come up with another collaborative way that benefits something like this would give you something physical that you could photograph for your portfolio or social media while still supporting other artists in your community. When working with other artists, you do want to set expectations clearly, especially surrounding payment and how the finished product is going to be used and how you're going to be credited. And you want to make sure you do all of this even before any collaboration starts. And don't feel like you have to do this to be a digital pattern designer. A digital mockup is perfectly fine. This is just another cool suggestion of how to actually see your pattern printed on a physical product out in the real world. 18. Final Thoughts: You didn't. You went from a blank Photoshop document to your own hand drawn seamless pattern. I hope you've discovered just how much you can do without ever leaving Photoshop. More importantly, I hope I've given you a process that you can take and make your own. The pattern you created in this class is just the start. Now you can go try to create another one with a completely different theme, experiment with different brushes, change your colour palette. Try a busier repeating pattern or even a simpler one. Or you could just take the elements you drew in this class and try creating a completely different pattern with them. What I'm trying to say is don't be afraid to experiment. Once you have your finished pattern, think about what else you can do with it. Maybe you want to print your own design on some fabric and sew with it. Maybe you want to create some stationary, wallpaper or gift wrap. Or maybe you simply just want to learn to create repeating patterns because it's fun. Before you go, don't forget to upload your finished project or your process in the project gallery here on Skillshare. I genuinely cannot wait to see what you've created. If you've enjoyed this class, please follow me here on Skillshare. Or you can find me online under Getzlaf creates, where I share my illustration, sewing, crafting and other creative projects. If you're interested in photography, you can find me at Getzlaf Photo where I share my photography and digital artwork. Thank you so much for taking this course and spending some of your creative time with me. Now go make something beautiful, and I'll see you in the next one.