Patterns for POD & Scrapbooking with Illustrator & Illustrator on iPad - Graphic Design for Lunch™

1. Introduction to the New Repeat tool in Illustrator CC and Illustrator iPad: Hello and welcome to this class on using the new Illustrator repeat feature to design scrapbook papers and print-on-demand designs. My name is Helen Bradley and I'm a Skillshare top teacher. I have over 260 courses here on Skillshare and over 160,000 student enrollments. In this class, we'll be looking at the new repeat tool in Adobe Illustrator and how to use it to create repeat designs for a range of uses. Now, this feature is available both in Adobe Illustrator on the desktop and on the iPad. We're going to look at how you can integrate this feature into your product workflow. If you only use the iPad or only use the desktop version of Illustrator, that's just fine. I'm going to show you how to do the designs on both and point out the differences in behavior of the iPad and desktop versions of the software. This new tool has lots of scope for being a fantastic design tool. But it has some key limitations which we're going to look at. The patterns that you make with it also behave differently to regular Illustrator patterns so we'll cover this too. By the time you finish this course, you'll be able to create repeat designs using this new repeat feature and you'll know when to use it and when not to use it. Without further ado, let's get started making repeats with the new repeat tool in Adobe Illustrator. 2. Pt 1 - Understand the basics of the Repeat feature: Before we start looking at how you actually use this new repeat feature in Adobe Illustrator to do things like create scrapbook paper and documents for print on demand. We need to look at what this tool won't do and where it's real use is. We're going to start with what you can't use it for because this is really critical. You can't use the designs that you make using this tool on a site like Spoonflower or any site that requires a pattern swatch rather than a document or an object filled with a pattern. A pattern swatch is just the single element that you need that if you line it up in a gridlike design, it's going to fill a document as big as you want the document to be with a repeating design. It's just the small portion of the design, and that's a very different thing to an object that's filled with a pattern. I need to be really clear about this. This tool is not going to work if you are designing patterns for Spoonflower, or if you are designing anything that requires the pattern swatch, but provided you're okay with producing a document that is filled with a pattern, then this tool is going to work really well. This tool is really good for sites like Society 6.On Society 6, they ask you for a document of a certain size filled with your pattern. They don't want the pattern swatch. For sites like Society 6, where you're creating a document that's already filled with the pattern, this tool is going to work really well. It's also going to be really good for creating scrapbook paper a 12 by 12 inch document that is got a repeat pattern inside it, but it is not itself a repeat pattern. I think that this tool is ideal for scrapbook paper designers. It's also good for people who want to incorporate a pattern into a design. For example, you might be making a mock up of a bedroom and you want to put on the bed a comfort of that is filled with a pattern. Well, you could use this tool for that because again, you're not trying to create a pattern swatch, you're trying to create a pattern filled object. Provided you fit into a category where this tool is going to work for you, then I think you're going to love it. It's really easy to use. It also works on Illustrator on the iPad as well as the Mac and the PC. Conceivably, you could start your designs on the iPad and then finish off your product development on your PC or your Mac. It's also quite a lot of fun to use and quite powerful and I found that some what would be otherwise fairly complex designs tend to come together pretty easily using this tool, perhaps a little more easily than they might with the pattern make tool in Illustrator. Some of the other advantage of this tool is that it doesn't seem to suffer from hairline fractures in the same way as some of the patterns that you create using the pattern make tool do and for anybody who's faced that hairline fracture problem, this is a really big bonus to be using this tool. You'll also see that using a tool you create the product and the design at the same time. It's very easy to, for example, mock up a 12 by 12 inch sheet of scrapbook paper and say exactly what your design is going to look like on that sheet of paper as you're designing it. If you don't like the size or the scale of it, then you can fix it in real-time. This tool also works better than the pattern make tool in some circumstances. I'm going to show you one of those circumstances. We're using the pattern make tool to create a pattern using some watercolor brushes, for example, doesn't do as well as this tool does. It just makes a better pattern, easier to make. This is a roundup of what you might use this tool for and what is not going to be good for, and what you might be looking forward to in this class as some of the benefits of using this new repeat pattern tool in Adobe Illustrator. Now that we've got that under our belts, we're going today get started and we're headed to the iPad to start off. 3. Pt 2 - Create your first iPad pattern: On the iPad using Adobe Illustrator here we're going to create a couple of patterns to investigate how you use the pattern tool here in the iPad. We're going to start with a custom size document. Now, I want this to be 12 by 12 scrapbook paper. There is an ideal size here and it's 864 by 864 pixels. We'll be able to export that out of Illustrator on the desktop later on at the perfect size for scrapbook paper, which is 3,600 by 3,600 pixels at 300 DPI. I've got my paper size selected. Now, if I was creating a lot of sheets of scrapbook paper, as is my plan, I would tap here to save this size and give it a name. I've already done that over here. That just will allow me later on a one-click setup for this document. But for now, let's just create this file. Our design is going to be a triangle design. Over here, we have a series of shapes. I'm going to target the triangle. These are the colors. This is a stroke color and this is a fill color. I'm going to invert them and tap here to change the fill color. I'm going to select my color from the outside rim here, and then the actual color value from the inside square. Checking that I've got the color appearing just here. Now, I don't want any stroke, so I'm going to tap on the stroke color and tap this to remove the stroke. That's something that you'll be familiar with for using Illustrator on the desktop. To draw my triangle, I'm just going to drag out a triangle. If I tap here on the touch selector, I can constrain it to a regular shape and I'm going to do just that. To move shapes that can be a little bit tricky. This is what you're going to do. You're going to tap on the Selection Tool here and then tap away from this shape. Now do a one-step movement. You're going to tap and drag. Tap and drag. That moves the shape. As soon as you see these selectors appear, then trying to drag it around can be difficult. There can be a temptation to change its shape and flip it over and do all things. If you're finding that difficult, make sure that nothing is selected and then just tap and drag and you should be right to go. Now I want a duplicate of this shape, so I'm going to select it and tap here on duplicate. What that does is it adds a second shape over here in the layers panel. This is the Layers option here. This top one is currently targeted, so I'm going to change its color. I'm going to use a blue color for it. Now I want to move it, so I'm going to tap away from it and then tap and drag. To close up the layers panel, just tap on the Layers option again. Now, this is going to be my base pattern element. I'm going to select over both of these triangles and tap down here on the repeat option and we're going to create a grid repeat. This is what we're looking to see. Now at this point, unless you really want to use the grid repeat twice and there are only very limited circumstances in which you would want to do that, do not come back in here and do not tap any of these options, because otherwise, you're going to put repeats and repeats. Eventually, your iPad is probably going to freeze because it won't be able to handle it. You're going to have to undo it by tapping on the undo option. You can't actually easily undo these repeats after you've done some other things. You want to have your wits about you. Once you've created your initial grid repeat, just don't go anywhere near this icon ever again, at least in this session. We've got a number of selectors here. We've got circles with arrows, we've got bars here, and we've got dots in the corner. We're going to see how each of these impacts our pattern. Firstly, the dots in the corner are going to shrink down this enclosing box in which the grid pattern is appearing. At the same time, I'm shrinking the pattern elements. We can get more of these pattern elements by shrinking the box. But of course, we're covering less of the document. If we use these bars here, we can stretch the containing box out to reveal the additional elements. These elements are already there, but we're just revealing them. These options here allow us to increase or decrease the space between the pattern elements. The pattern elements, in this case, are the red and blue triangle. Let's just drag apart here to increase the horizontal spacing and increase the vertical spacing. The pattern element is the red and blue triangle. Adjusting these selectors here won't push those apart from each other. They just push every combined element away from each other. I'm going to shrink that back up a bit here. You can select on any of these triangles to make adjustments to them. It's unlike the pattern make tool in Illustrator on the desktop where you have to select the original element. In this instance, every single one of these triangles is selectable, but changing one is going to change all instances of them. Now I've got a red triangle selected here. Let's just tap away and let's select the blue triangle. I want to invert it, so I want to turn it 180 degrees. With it selected, I'm going over here to the properties panel. Here is the degree or the rotation angle. I'm going to set it to 180. That has flipped that blue triangle around. Now it's upside down and we can change its color too by just tapping on it and selecting a different color. But as you can see, every single one of those blue triangles has been rotated and recolored. You can't do it to individual triangles, not at this point anyway in the design. At this stage, we might look at our design again and see if maybe closing things up might improve it. We're just looking at an interesting finished product. I think I need to close up the horizontal spacing, or adjust the horizontal spacing a little bit. For me to use this as a sheet of scrapbook paper, I'm going to make sure that I position this rectangle pretty much over the artboard and size it to the size of the artboard. I'm going to put it pretty much in position and size it. I'm going to double-check with the properties panel. We know that our document was 864 pixels in width and height. I'm going to make this selection that is filled with our pattern, that exact same size. We also know that dividing 864 by 2 would give us 432. If we set the midpoint of this shape to 432 in the x and y, then our shape is going to be the exact same size as the artboard and it's going to be centered on it. I'm going to close up my properties panel. This is my pattern-filled shape that could be my sheet of scrapbook paper. To finish off, I'm just going to tap here on the arrow and that will exit the editing mode. This document will now be uploaded through by the Cloud and will appear in Illustrator on my desktop. Of course, for that to happen, you will need to be using the exact same login on the iPad as you do on the desktop version. If, for example, you have Illustrator at home and at work, you want to be making sure that the two applications are using the same login so that the documents from Illustrator on the iPad will appear on your desktop. 4. Pt 3 - Create a second iPad pattern: For our second design here on the iPad, I'm going to select my Scrapbook paper size because it's already preset. I'm again going to use a triangle, but this time I'm just going to make one triangle, so I'm setting up my colors here. We'll select a pink color here for the triangle, we don't want any stroke color. I'm going to drag out my triangle, touch the selector here so it's constrained in its size. Now this time my pattern is going to be made up of a single triangle. With it selected I'm going to tap here on the repeat options and choose Grid. All these same, options are going to work exactly as they did before even though in this case our pattern is made up of just a single triangle. But there are some options that we can use that will vary the way that this pattern looks and they're over here in the properties panel. This is where you need to have your wits about the changes to the pattern or in the properties panel not here in this repeat area. Down the bottom here, are options for spreading out the shapes, so these are exactly the same options as we would have access to over here only they are available here at the bottom of the properties panel. But so too are some other options. We can change our grid type from a regular grid to a brick by row. In this case, every alternate row is offset by half a block if you like, so we've got this nice diagonal pattern here. This is a brick by column, so that's got a different look to it but again, this one triangle is now producing a different looking pattern by tapping on this option here. We can also flip rows, so we can change our pattern by flipping the row then we can flip columns. Somewhere in here is your ideal pattern, somewhere in here is a pattern that you like. I'm just going to select this and tap away. Now a heads up here is that when you're moving down this properties panel it's really easy to hit the opacity slider and to make your pattern partially opaque. Just make sure that you don't do that or if it does become opaque then you reset it back to 100 percent opacity before you finish. I'm going to close up my properties panel. I'm going to move my design back up into the top corner of my document and just stretch it out. I think I'd like it to be smaller, so looking at my sheet of scrapbook paper and saying I want my pattern to be much smaller within the page. We're going to reset this as well to 864 by 864, so it's filling the page nicely, and make sure that this is 432 and 432, so it's centered in the page. If everything looks good and we're finished here we can just tap on the arrow and again, this document will now be sent via the Cloud and will appear in Illustrator on the desktop ready for us to do some more work on it. 5. Pt 4 - Make the patterns in Illustrator on the Desktop: We're back here now with Illustrator on the desktop, and we're going to repeat those last two patterns to see the similarities and the differences with using this tool in Illustrator on the desktop. Let me create a new document. I've got my 864 by 864 pixel document. I'll click "Create". Now, for triangles here, obviously on the desktop, we don't have a Triangle tool, we have a Polygon tool. I'm going to select that, click once in the document, and just get that to work. Three sides at the moment, let's just set the size to 50 pixels. That's a bit of a meaningless option here, so we're just going to create it and see how it looks. Well, it looks pretty good size-wise. Let's choose our colors, and we're going to remove the stroke from this. Now, as on the iPad, we can just Alt drag a duplicate of this shape away, and change its color. We'll select either both of these triangles. To create this repeat pattern here in Illustrator on the desktop, we're going to choose Object and come down here to Repeat. Now, they are the same options for Radial, Grid, and Mirror, so obviously we're going to be using Grid. But you'll see here that we also have an Options option, so we'll see that in just a minute. Let's go to Grid. Not unsurprisingly, everything right now looks like it's working pretty similarly too on the iPad. We can adjust the spacing between these pairs of shapes using these options here. We can reveal more or less of the pattern using these options here, and we can scale from the corners. I've got square markers at the corner here, but they're working in the same way as they would have on the iPad. Let's have a look at our options. We'll go back with the element selected and choose "Object", "Repeat", and then "Options". The options here are the same ones that we saw on the Properties panel inside Adobe Illustrator on the iPad. But here, they're in their own little panel. Here, we can adjust the spacing in the grid, the horizontal and the vertical spacing. We can also select a grid type. We've got brick by the row and the brick by column that we had on the iPad. We can also flip rows. You can click here to flip your rows or not flip your rows, and you can flip your columns, so they heaps and heaps of options here. But just note that the options that you have are going to be available through this Repeat Options panel from the Object menu. Although of course, if you have the Properties panel open, you'll find them there as well. Now, there was one additional feature that we have here in the desktop version of Illustrator, and that is a Release option. We don't have that on the iPad, so there's no way of releasing this pattern back to the original shapes that we had. Let me just undo that because I didn't want to keep that pattern. There are the first couple of differences between the iPad and the desktop version of Adobe Illustrator. The additional Repeat options panel, as well as the Options being in the Properties panel, and also the ability to release the pattern. In terms of editing, we can just double-click on the shapes until we isolate them. You can see I'm in isolation mode here, so I'm just concentrating on this one selected shape, and of course, we can do things such as recolor it, and not unsurprisingly, if we recolor one shape, all the other shapes that were that shape in this pattern are automatically recolored. Now, we can rotate it. I'm just going to use Object, Transform, and Rotate to rotate it around 180 degrees. Again, all the shapes are now rotated around 180 degrees. To get out of isolation mode, you can come back up through the breadcrumb trail here, but you could also just press "Escape", and that should get you out. Let me just adjust the spacing here to be a bit more pleasant. Now, on the iPad, we were using the transform controls to re-size this shape. Let me just go and show you what's not going to happen here on the desktop, and there's not really a good explanation as to why it's not working, but it doesn't work. Let me just get close enough to the outer edges of this artboard, and let's go to the Transform panel with Window and then Transform. The reason I'm showing you the Transform panel is because it becomes really obvious what's happening here. I'm going to place this box here in the top corner. I'm going to set it to zero in the horizontal and the vertical based on the fact that I have this top-left corner box selected. If I was selecting the middle one, then we will want to align it to 432 by 432, but we're using the top corner in this instance. Now, this is the issue that we have with the desktop version as against the iPad version. You cannot disable these constrained width and height proportions. The problem with this is that any change that we make to the width or the height is going to automatically impact the other ones. I'm going to set this to 864. But as soon as I do, you'll notice that the height adjusts, and I can't adjust the height to 864, because if I do that, the width’s going to adjust. It's really, really difficult to get this to position exactly, even if you have all these pixel options selected as I do, so Snap to pixel all drawing, Snap to pixel, snap to pixel while scaling. All of these are enabled, it should be snapping perfectly. I also have my smart guides turned on, but try as I might, it's really, really difficult to get this to work exactly. I'm close to it. I'm while on pixel off here. Now, that's going to be important later on, coming up in another video when we actually start saving these as scrapbook paper. But we're just going to note that for now that we do have a problem, and that it's going to be difficult, if not impossible in a lot of instances for us to size this shape to the exact size of the artboard. Tuck that away as a thought, we're going to find ways of dealing with it later on, but it is important to know. Let's create the second of the patterns. Very simply, we are going to create our same size document. We're going to create a triangle. Give it a fill color. No stroke. Because this is going to be based on just a single shape, I'm going to select it again, Object Repeat, Grid. Then we'll go back to Object, Repeat, and we'll go to the Options so that we can setup our, for example, Brick by Row pattern. I'm just going to click "Okay", that's looking pretty good to me. Let's just scale it to quite a small size. I'm just going to try and make it come as close as possible to fitting my document. On the face of it, in most instances, these patterns work similarly on the desktop as they do on the iPad with just differences in locations of the options, and the problem we have in sizing this document. 6. Pt 5 - Recolor repeat patterns on the desktop: The next thing we're going to look at with these patterns is the recoloring options because they are not quite as you might expect. You may be familiar with using the Recolor Artwork tool in Adobe Illustrator. Let me just put a triangle here so that we can get access to it. Normally with patterns and any illustration in Illustrator, if you select part or all of the shape, you get access to this Recolor Artwork tool. Now this is a really powerful tool because it gives you the option of changing colors in a number of ways and you can rotate all the colors of a selected picker for artwork around really, really nice tool. The problem is with this pattern, there is no Recolor Artwork tool available. Even if you know where to find it on the menus, which is Edit and then Edit Colors, you'll see that Recolor Artwork is grayed out. That means that these elements cannot be recolored in a traditional way in Illustrator. You can come in obviously as we've been doing, come in and select on a particular object and then change its color. You can also go to the Recolor Artwork tool at this point and change its color, but you have to have it selected. You can't just select the entire object and go and do your recolor artwork. Of course, the problem with this to a certain extent is that everything is sort grayed out because we're in isolation mode so it does make it a little bit difficult for you to see the results live if you like. While a Recolor Artwork tool is available, it's only available when you have the individual objects selected and that's a very different process to what we're used to in Illustrator. Now if you did want to, for example, use the Recolor Artwork tool, and if you'd been pretty determined that this was with a pattern you want to use and this is pretty much set in concrete, this is what I would do. I come into the Layers panel and I would make a duplicate of this layer. So I just drag this entire layer onto the New Layer icon. I would lock down and turn off the bottom most one, so that would be my master. I could come back in at any stage and make changes to the actual pattern designs. I'm always saving that as my master and I've probably named that. Now this one is the actual grid pattern. In this case, what we could do is we could select the duplicate of this and we could expand. It's going to be subject to the normal expansion options in Illustrator. That's Object and then Expand. I'm going to click "Okay". We're going to have a look at now what we've got. We have a clipping group. There is a clipping group around this shape and then we have a group and inside the group are just groups, and groups, and groups of objects. Basically what this pattern has expanded into is just those little repeats, the little elements that we created initially that we repeated. Now, if you're used to working with patterns in Adobe Illustrator, this is a really clean expansion. A lot of patterns don't expand like this into neat sets of objects. There are some advantages here. At this point, we could go to this group and we could select it, and we could ungroup everything, and we could continue to ungroup until everything was just a single object. Now we have a clipping path, and that is the path that is clipping all these objects to the shape. So you may or may not want to remove that clipping path, that's up to you. But because we now have all these objects available as individual objects, look and see that the Recolor Artwork dialogue is going to work as expected. Let me just close up this panel right now. Let's go to Advanced Options and Edit, and here we can now make changes. We can make changes where the colors are linked to each other and then we can unlink the colors and take them in different directions. We have a lot of flexibility with our patterns at this stage. Now, unlike the way Illustrator uses Recolor Artwork with a true pattern, this is not going to make a duplicate. In the last panel, we've lost the original coloring and we now have this new colored version if you like. If you wanted multiple colored versions, then you would need to make your own copy of this layer, at least this clipping group, and then re-color each one of those individually. But what this does allow you to do, and I think it's really nice for say, a pattern like this is, let's actually just expand this. Let's make a duplicate of it so that we're exercising good behavior, and then let's go to this visible version and expand it. I'm just going to come into this group. Now if you want to get to something that's inside a group, you can use the Group Selection tool. I'm just going to click here on the Group Selection tool. I'm going to click on a few of these shapes because if we're calling this a sheet of scrapbook paper, this is something that we could do at this point, is just come back in and make some subtle changes to just a few of the shapes and the pattern. We get something that's perhaps more sophisticated than we're used to, where we instead of just having a design that is all the same color, we could just add a few spots of color throughout the pattern, giving it perhaps more interesting look. But you'll just need to be aware of the differences with dealing with the recolor options using this new repeat dialogue because it's not working exactly the same way as traditional patterns are in Illustrator. 7. Pt 6 - Change color of patterns on the iPad: While we're on the subject of recoloring, let's have a look at the recoloring options on the Illustrator on the iPad. As we saw earlier, we can select any one of these green objects and make changes to it. Any change that we make to this green object is going to be reflected in every other one of those green objects in our document. There is no recolor artwork dialog in Illustrator on the iPad, and no really easy way to select similar shapes. I would be aware of that when you're recoloring artwork on the iPad. If you really want to use recolor artwork dialog, then you probably want to be taking this to the desktop to use it. If you want to recolor every object within a pattern, don't expand it. But if you want to do some spot recoloring like we saw earlier on the desktop, let's see how we would do that. I'm going to use my single colored pattern for that, so that's this one here. This design is just one colored triangle and it's inverted, but it's still the exact same triangle. You can see here that any change I make to it is affecting every single triangle in this document. Let's have a look and see how we could apply that spot coloring where we just change one or two triangles. The first thing is we're going to select the object, and then we're going to come down here to the Object options, and there is an Expand option here. I'm just going to tap on Expand. What's happened now is that in the last panel, we have a clipping group with a clipping path as we did on a desktop and a group of objects. Every single one of these triangles is just a triangle in this document. Now at this point, we could come back in and use this isolation mode to isolate just one of these triangles and then make a change to it, so that we can come through and make spot changes to our document. In this sense this is working very much the same as it did on the desktop, where we're just expanding the object to release all of these shapes so that we can deal with them individually, and then just grabbing one or two of them and just making changes to the colors in them. You just want to have your wits about you when you're working between Illustrator on the iPad and on the desktop, and just trying to work out what works on each of these. It's tricky and we're about to get into some even trickier elements. Just be aware that things can be a bit different and just take things a bit slowly, particularly in the beginning. 8. Pt 7 - Save scrabook paper at the right size: It's time now to have a look and see how we would save these patterns for use outside of Illustrator. I'm going to open up this pattern which is still in the original format. You can see when I select over it that we have all the grid options available. We've done nothing with this particular design right now. Now, if I want to save this as scrapbook paper, I've already prepared the document at 864 by 864 pixels in size, so it's a perfect size, the artboard itself. The problem here is that the object that is containing this pattern is not a perfect size. In fact, it's a pixel short in each dimension. But as we saw earlier, it's actually really difficult to get it to even this level of accuracy. If you can't get yours to the exact 864 by 864 pixels and have it lined up perfectly on the artboard, let's see what you're going to do. What I suggest that you do is you first of all make a copy of this design so that you would have it in case you needed to use the original later on. I'm going to tuck the original away and we're going to work on a duplicate. Now, I'm going to expand this. With the duplicate selected, I'm going to choose Object and then Expand and we already know what that's going to do. It's going to give us a clipping group. Inside the clipping group are all the objects that comprise of this design. Now if I turn off this clipping path, let's have a look and see what we've got. What we've got is the pattern element is actually extending beyond this artboard. That's really good news for us because that's going to be a key to solving this problem of size. What I'm going to do is I'm going to turn back on this clipping path, and I'm going to select only the clipping path. That's going to give me access to the Transform options. Let's just do it a little bit easily by selecting the transform dialogue. Now you'll see that I can actually unlock the tie between the width and height so I can change them individually. Now, these both have to be changed to the exact same value. But you can see that we can turn off this constrain option, which is really good news. I've still got my clipping path selected. I'm going to align it to the artboard. Now when I go back to this document, I'll find that I have a clipping path, an object here that is the exact 864 by 864 pixels high. It's matching the artboard identically. That's really good news. Also, it's positioned in the top corner here. The top left corner is positioned right in the top corner of the artboard. Everything is perfect. Now let's see how we're going to save this as a sheet of scrapbook paper. Because traditionally, scrapbook paper is 12 by 12 inches in size. When it comes to delivering it on sites like Etsy and other scrap booking sites, typically people deliver a document that is 3600 by 3600 pixels at 300 DPI. This is what you're going to do. You'll choose File and then Export and you're going to choose Export As. We're going to choose here, Use artboards because that this is going to be clipped to the artboard size perfectly. I'm going to call this triangle's red and orange, just so that we can identify it easily. I'm going to click here on Export. It's going into a folder that I have access to. Let's just go to Export. Now, this is the critical phase here. We want the color model to be RGB and this particularly you want to change that, but typically scrapbook paper is delivered as RGB. You want the largest file size possible, so you want to set this to 10, so it can be described as a high-resolution JPEG image. There will be some compression there, always is with JPEG images, but this is going to give you the minimum amount of compression. Then we're going to come down here to resolution and we're going to set it too high,300 PPI. Now the difference between 300 PPI and 300 DPI, there is a difference between these two, but for this purpose, they're interchangeable. Provided it says 300 something PPI or DPI, you're good to go. I'm just going to click here on okay. Now let's go and save this document. To save the file that we've just saved, we'll go to the File Explorer, and here is the image. Now I've got my panel showing over here. We can see clearly that the dimensions of this image are 3600 by 3600. The process of saving an 864 by 864 pixel image at 300 PPI is to turn it into a 3600 by 3600 pixel image. If I right-click on this and choose Properties, in the properties panel, we'll be able to see that it is saved at 300 DPI. This is perfect for scrapbook paper. It's exactly right and it's been created as exactly right by making sure that we had the artboard at a fixed size or known fixed size that's going to work and that we save it in that particular way. Now if you don't know why those measurements are working, this is a brief rundown. Illustrator when you create a file, create it at 72 DPI. What we're doing is we're saying that 864 by 864 pixel image, if we divide it by 72, DPI or PPI, we get 12, and so that is our 12 inches. When we save the document using File Export, Export As, and set the 300 DPI, what Illustrator does is it says, I've got an 864 by 864 pixel image. I'm going to divide that by 72, which is the resolution that I did have, and then I'm going to multiply that result by 300. If you divide 864 by 72, you get 12. If you multiply 12 by 300, you get 3600. It's fairly simple math. It's just a pretty confusing concept. That's why it works and that's why if you always start with an 864 by 864 pixel image and save it using that method, you're going to end up with a sheet of scrapbook paper that's perfectly sized and a perfect resolution ready to be sold. 9. Pt 8 - Scaling a document to the right size for any site: In the previous video, we looked at saving a document as a sheet of scrapbook paper, but you may not be doing scrapbook paper, you may want to be designing for something like Society6. Let's head across to Society6 very quickly and see what they need. Here is a Society6 page relating to pixel dimension requirements for their products. I'm going to give you a link to this in the description. What they say here is that if your goal is to enable all products Society6 has to offer, including large format products like curtains, bedding, outdoor items, wall murals, etc, we recommend starting with a horizontal asset that is 15,000 by 9,000 pixels, a vertical asset that's 8,000 by 12,000 pixels, and a square asset that's 12,000 by 12,000 pixels, all at 300 DPI. Now, that's not going to work on Illustrator, but we do already know how we're going to make these the right size. Let's assume that we're going for a horizontal asset and that has to be 15,000 by 9,000 pixels. We're going to get out our calculator. [NOISE] Here is my calculator and the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to type in the first of those measurements, which is 15,000, and I'm going to divide that by the 300 DPI that we know that Illustrator can export at. This means that our document needs to be 50 inches wide. Now you could work in 50 inches. You could just make a document that's 50 inches wide. But if you want to work in pixels, you're just going to multiply it by 72. Here's the first of the two measurements that we need, 3,600 pixels wide will give us the right starting size for a document ready for Society6. I'm going to get rid of this. Let me just clear it and let's go for the second measurement and that was 9,000. I'm typing in 9,000, I'm dividing by 300, and that would be 30 inches wide. Again, if you want to just make a 50 by 30 inch document, go ahead, that's perfect. But if you want to do it in pixels, you need to multiply by 72. That means that second measurement of our document needs to be 2,160. Once you've written that down, you can get started. I'm going to click on Create new. I'm going to type in the measurements that I need here, the width, because this is a horizontal aspect document, is going to be 3,600. The height is going to be 2,160. I'll click Create. This is the document size that we need to meet Society6's requirements. Let's just go and fill it with something. We just need something that we can go and test this with. While we're here, let's do something a little bit different. I'm just going to try and straighten up my star a little bit and let's go and put a colored rectangle behind it. Going to size it a little bit closer to my star. Now let's select everything because this design is going to have a color background object. Repeat, we're going to use our grid repeat. We're going to set this up to be slightly more interesting object repeat. Let's go to options and let's select, for example, Brick by Row. I'm going to close up these spaces a little bit and then I'm going to stretch this out. For argument's sake, this is a document that we want to take to Society6. Let's go and save it the way that we know we need to save it. I need to find my Layers panel which has disappeared on me. Let's make a duplicate of this in case we want to come back in and edit it later on, lock this down, turn it off. Let's go and select this version of it and let's expand it with Object and then Expand. Then we're going to go and locate our clipping path, here it is. We're going to use the Transform options to make sure that it's positioned in the right place and it's the right size. I'm going to select 00 as the positioning for the top-left corner. Let me choose Window and then Transform. Now we're going to set up our horizontal and vertical measurements, making sure that this constraint option is disabled because we already know that that's not going to work for us, 3,600 by 2,160. Everything's in the right place, everything is the right size. Now we can go ahead and save this document exactly the same way as we did before. File, Export, Export As, going to call this Society6. Going to use the Artboard. I'll click Export. Again, RGB is the color mode, maximum size because we wanted high quality. Make sure that the resolution is 300 PPI because that's the key to getting the final document the exact right size and click Okay. Now we can head off to the File Explorer to check out our document. Here is our Society6 document. We will need to change its name so it doesn't have dash 01 on the end, but that's a small price to pay for having a document that is the perfect size, 15,000 by 9,000 pixels. That's the size that Society6 told us it wanted. Right-click this, choose Properties. Let's go to Details and let's confirm that this document is a 300 DPI document. This is meeting Society6's requirements. As I said, the mathematics is a little bit confusing. It's not difficult, it's just a little bit confusing to do, but that's what you need to get a document out at the exact right size that your particular site requires. 10. Pt 9 - Export a Pattern from the iPad: It's now the time to have a look and see how we would export things from the iPad so I'm going to open one of the documents that we were previously working on. Now exporting things from the iPad is so much easier than on the PC. We also know that from experience we're able to unlock the relationship between widths and heights so that they're not constrained, and so we can independently alter these on the iPad. This shape that has the pattern in it is sized to my artboard and it's centered on it. So everything is perfect here. To export it on the iPad, we're going up here to the Share option and we're going to choose "Publish and export". We're going to choose "Export as". Now this allows us to do things such as choosing the format and I'm choosing JPEG as my export format and my color model as RGB. We've already discussed that. That is typically the way that scrapbook papers are distributed. Now in terms of quality, you get low, medium, or high. You want the highest quality possible. This will be a larger file size, but again, it does let you sell this as high-quality JPEG document. Resolution, this is where the 72, 150 and 300 PPI come in. If you choose low, you'll be exporting at 72 PPI. That's not what we want. If you choose medium, you'll be exporting it a 150 PPI, if you select high you're going to be exporting at 300 PPI. The mathematics of working on the iPad are identical to working on the desktop, and we want to export at 300 DPI. The problem is that we're not told that this is 300 DPI. I've just done the experiment for you. I've exported this at low, medium, high and checked out what's happened. At low it's 72, at medium it's 150, at high it's 300. Of course, because it's to multiply, because the multiplier is going to be 72 or 150 or 300, the actual physical size of the finished file is going to change depending on what these settings you choose. We have been saving up this document so that we could export it at 300 DPI. So that it would be a 3600 by 3600 pixel documents. Again, the mathematics are working exactly the same way. If you choose these options, you're going to get exactly what you expect. I'm selecting all artboards because I only have one artboard anyway so I'm going to tap on export. At this point I can export to whatever I want. Typically I'm just emailing these to myself. But you could also save them to the files by Dropbox or whatever other application you are using. I'm just going to email this to myself. That will now be emailed to me so that I can then do something with it on the desktop. When you're finished, you can just close down this dialogue. Before we leave this document, there is something I'm saying that I wanted to draw your attention to. You can see that the pattern is very close to the top of the document here and the side is not particularly well-balanced in the sheet of scrapbook paper. It is possible to move it. It is surprisingly tricky to do so. Let's see how we're going to do it. We're going through the selection tool and we're going to double-tap on one of the shapes so it's selected. Tap and hold the touch icon here and select the other one. So you've got a bounding box around everything that comprises the actual pattern. So if you had lots of pattern elements you're going to need to select all of them. Then tap here on the Nudge icon because you want to nudge these. Now we can just pull outside the shape and move the pattern around inside the document. We just want to get it in an ideal position and then let go. Now, this is really tricky stuff. It might take you quite a few minutes to be able to work out exactly how to select things and exactly how to move. You're going to double-tap on one shape to select it, hold the touch icon there and tap successively on every other shape that you want to select. Then you're going to your Nudge icon, make sure you tap it, and then you should be able to move it. Now if it goes wrong, what you're going to do is skew things. Let me just show you what going wrong looks like. Because believe me, I'm really good at it. If you move from the middle of the shape, you'll find that you distort everything. You need to make sure that you tap on "Nudge" and then just drag around the edges of it. Again, I've lost my selection, so I have to go back and do it again. Go to "Nudge", and then move things. If it's worthwhile practicing a little bit until you get a feel for exactly what to select and how to nudge things around. But that is a better positioning of my pattern inside my document. Of course, if I like that better then I would just go back and export it. 11. Pt 10 - Working with Cloud files on the desktop: If you're working between Illustrator on the iPad and Illustrator on the desktop, there are some things that you need to know about saving documents to the Cloud. This is my welcome screen here on my desktop. These are cloud documents. Once they've got a little check mark in the corner, that tells me that they've been downloaded and they're available on my computer, on my desktop. This is a Cloud document that has not yet been downloaded. It's available online only. You can also tell Cloud documents by their extension. These are AIC document. Anytime you save an Illustrator document to the Cloud, rather than saving it to your local drive, then it's going to have AIC on the end instead of AI, same file type. It's just indicating that this is a Cloud document. Let's go and get one of these cloud documents. As soon as I click on it, I'm going to have to be connected to the Internet because this needs to download. You can see here it's now downloading. As soon as it's downloaded, it's available here on my desktop. Now there are some other things that you need to know about Cloud documents. They'll have a little cloud here in the document name on the title bar here that's indicating that it's a Cloud document. Now if I make changes to this document, let me just come in and select this shape, I'm going to make a change to the color of the shape. Let's take it through to something completely different. Having made a change to the color of an element inside my pattern, I might decide that this was not something that I wanted to do. But to a certain extent it's a little bit late for that. Because if this were a document that I was just saving to my local drive, I could just close it without saving. Because I haven't saved my change, then the change would be discarded. Cloud documents don't work that way. With Cloud documents, you don't actually have to save them because Illustrator is saving them in the background for you. The changes I've made to this document now has already been saved in this document. Undoing things like this becomes a little bit more of a complex situation. I'm just going to close this document and prove to you that closing it without saving it does not discard the change. You can see here that change is embedded inside that document. Now if I looked at that and went, no, I am really in some serious trouble here. Let's see how we could make that change. I'm going to open the file again. For documents that are Cloud documents, you get access to this panel. We're going to Window and we're going to choose the Version History panel. This is going to show us the version history of this document. Today, at this time, this is what the document looked like. But when I was working on it last week, it looked completely different. We've got access to these different versions of the document. Now we're told that the versions are going to expire after 30 days unless you mark the ones you want to keep. But well, I'd like to keep the starting one. I'm going to just bookmark it. I could also change its name if I wanted to, but for now I'm just going to bookmark it, so that's now going to be kept. I can switch between either of these versions of the document. If I want to go back to this version here, I could click and choose revert to this version. But I can also bookmark and save this version so I could get back to it at a later date if I wanted to. Now, a detailed explanation of version history is not part of this course. I just want to bring your attention to the fact that there is this version history panel and you can get back to older versions of your document and that you do need to be careful when you're working with Illustrator documents that you've created on the iPad when you're working with them on the desktop, they're not going to behave as you expect them to behave. Let's just go back to this older version. I want to revert to this version. It's now being downloaded. Here is this older version. In essence, undone the change that I'd made. Now, I'm going to exit out of this and of course it's going to be saved with its current look. So here is it in that original look. As a matter of practicality, when you're working with documents that you've made on the iPad, you could save them locally. If I went to say this document which I've created on the iPad, let's just open it. It's downloading. It's a Cloud document. We can tell it's a Cloud document because it's got a cloud up here. Say I wanted to work with this locally and I wanted to treat it as a local document, so I wanted to behave like a regular Illustrator document. Well, I can do that simply by choosing File and then Save As. I'll put it somewhere. For example, in my scrapbook Illustrator files. I'll put it here and it's going to be saved, you can see as an AI file, so that hasn't broken the link. It's not actually any longer a Cloud document. The original Cloud document will still be there, but we'll have a second version of it that's going to behave like a regular AI document. I'm just calling this gradient dots and you can see that it's saving like a regular Illustrator document. If I come in here now and make a change to this document, I know that it's got a rectangle over the top. Let's just turn that off. Let's say that's not what we wanted to happen. I'm going to close it. Well, here is the save changes. This is a regular AI document. We get the chance to save the changes and we go, no, we made a big mistake. Don't save them, just let us get out of here. That document is behaving as a local document. But you can see here we still have the Cloud version, we still got the AIC version. These aren't linked together, so they're going to operate as two separate documents. One is going to be available in Illustrator on the iPad. This is not, it's not a Cloud document, just saved locally. This can be confusing until you get used to moving between both applications. If you're only using Illustrator on the desktop, you don't need to worry about it. If you're using the iPad and the desktop version and you want to work between the two, you need to be aware of this stuff. Just have your wits about and think very carefully when you're working on these files. Do I want a duplicate that is saved locally, that will behave like a regular Illustrator file or am I prepared to deal with Cloud files? Just remember that you've got that version history that you can use if you need to use it. Now, these files are also available elsewhere. I'm going to the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop. In the files area of the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop is a link to every one of my Cloud files. Just be aware that they are accessible there too. They're also available online. If you go in a browser to your iCloud assets, so this is assets.adobe.com. Sign in. Here are your Cloud documents, so they're available on a whole lot of places. They're the exact same document. This is just the browser version that's looking at the original cloud document. You can also find them in your Creative Cloud Desktop under files. Of course, they're going to be available on your illustrator home screen. 12. Pt 11 - Working with Cloud documents on the iPad: In the previous video, we had a look at opening a document that had been created on the iPad and doing that on the desktop. It's a Cloud document. There were certain behaviors there. Let's have a look at the iPad. Firstly, I connected to the Internet before I started recording this video so that the documents that potentially I had made changes to on the desktop would actually sync with my iPad. That's an important consideration. If you're not sync up-to-date documents, make sure that you're connected to the Internet and you've given Illustrator time to get access to those Cloud documents, to download them and make them available offline, which is going to be this checkmark. This green checkmark is going to tell you they've been downloaded. Now, as on the desktop, we get access to version history, but here it's clicking these three little dots here and choose Version History. Now the speed at which version history works is again going to be dependent on the quality of your Internet connection because what has to happen is that the versions have to download. I'm waiting here for my April the 23rd version of this document to load up so that I can see what it was like. This is the version of it. I can go back to an earlier part of that day when I was still developing the design and we can see what it looked like there. Then we can go to an earlier point of that day. Now we can bookmark these so we can save them because we're going to lose our versions after 30 days. So anything you want to keep, make sure that you bookmark. You can also revert to a version by just tapping again these three dots and go to revert to this version. I don't want to. I'm just happy at looking at what the document used to be like, but that would give you access to previous versions of the document. Important because there is no save function in Illustrator on the iPad, everything that you do is saved. if you want to wind back, you'll want to be able to get access to that version history. 13. Pt 12 - Paint pattern on the Desktop: As I said in the introductory videos, there are some patterns that are better or easier to create using this new repeat tool than for example, the pattern make tool in Illustrator. One of these is a design somewhat similar to this, a Paint Strokes design. Let me show you how you would do this. I'm just going to make a scrapbook size sheet of paper here. I need some colors. I've got some saved in some swatches. Let's go and get my nice color swatches. Let's just grab all of these and pop them into my swatches panel. For this also, we need some brushstrokes so I'm going to the Brushes panel. Of course, you can get to these panels by choosing Window and then Brushes or Window and then Swatches. I'm going to be using the shipped with Illustrator Brushes here. I'm going into Artistic and Artistic Watercolor. These are the Brushes I want to use. Now I'm going to choose a color. Let's go to the swatches panel and choose one of these colors. I'm going to choose a brush to use and the paintbrush tool. I'm going to draw some paintbrush marks. Now, I'm going to get pretty good value out of these paintbrushes if I paint in the same brush in different directions or different colors, for the same Brush. What I want to do is to build up a pattern of brushstrokes. Now, I saw this pattern on the outside of a Kleenex tissue box. You might see that when you next go to the supermarket, have a look for Kleenex tissue boxes. There is a box that has this really interesting sort design on it. What I wanted to do was to create it in Illustrator. As soon as I tried to do that, I ran into problems with the pattern make tool. Because what the pattern make tool did in Illustrator was as soon as I made this into a pattern, the actual elements were broken up. They, instead of being nice, smooth, graduated designs, they tended to be a bit posterized because the brushes themselves got expanded. I was really unhappy with the result. What I found was as soon as I started using this new tool in Illustrator, that I actually got a better pattern. There are some limits to this, it's not perfect. The limits are somewhat interesting. I've just got a heap of brushstrokes here. Let's just close everything up here. Let's go and select all these shapes. Let's go and make a pattern out of it with object and then repeat and grid. Going to choose my options. Repeat and options. I want to use brick by column, so I'm going to do that. I wanted to flip some things that would make them a little bit more interesting. Let's do that flip. Close that dialogue down so that now I can push everything close together. The limits with this particular design, are dependent on where you are. Some some them are just limits anyway. What I've discovered is that you can't alter the layering of your Brushes. If there's a brush at the front that you don't like, you're better to find another way of dealing with it than anticipating being able to change its order. I'm obviously concerned about these brown and green ones that are showing a very, very definite line into my pattern. With my selection tool select them, I'm going to try and isolate these or at least one of them and see what I can do with it. I think, yeah this is one of the culprits. Let's go and change its color so it's less obvious. Now I'm going to go and try and find this green one. Finding these actual brushes inside the pattern can be a little bit tricky so you want to just have your wits about you a little bit. While this basic design works fine, in Illustrator on the iPad, you can create it on the iPad. What you can't do on the iPad is what I'm about to do in a minute. That is add additional brushstrokes to this. I just want to try and see if I can find this brown one here. Yes, there it is. I just want to tone it down so it's less obvious along this repeat line. I would do the same thing with the green one, but let's forget about that for the moment, and let's see how we would add additional brushstrokes. Firstly, I'm going to pick up my pattern. I just want to double-click until I've got the actual pattern elements selected. Then I'm going to my brush tool, and now I'm just going to draw a brush line ignoring the fact that I don't have a brush shape selected and I don't right now have a color. I'm just going to draw in a brushstroke. Next I need to go and pick that up. That's the tricky part, is actually working out which one you just put in. It's inherited a color, so now I can go and change that color. I didn't have a color to start off with, because what Illustrator was doing was trying to tell me that I had selected a whole heap of elements, all of which had different colors. It wasn't able to tell me exactly what color this element was going to be. Now I'm also going to choose a brushstroke for it. Close up the panel, pressure escaped, get back into viewing my pattern. You can add additional brushstrokes to the design on the desktop. But if you try and do that on the iPad, you're going to end up with the actual brushstroke appearing in the layers palette above the grid repeat, it doesn't actually go in the grid repeat. Whenever I have tried to select this design and put that new brushstroke in, it's not possible. I've even tried to copy and paste. I've tried everything that could possibly work. I'm left with the opinion that what works on the desktop doesn't work on the iPad. That's been true pretty much of this particular tool. It's not exactly the same in both places so just be aware of that. If I already had developed this pattern in Illustrator on the iPad and I wanted to add some extra brushstrokes to it, well, I just bring it to the desktop and do it here. This is a design style that you can create in Illustrator on the desktop. I think it's actually easy to make this paintbrush patterns using this tool even with its limits. The limits are, of course, that it behaves differently in both the iPad and the desktop. If you go and select an object and want to change its layering, it's ordering, in the stacking order within this grid repeat, that doesn't work either. It looks like you can choose object, arrange, send back, or bring forward or whatever, but it doesn't actually work that way. That's just a heads up as well. 14. Pt 13 - Create the paint pattern on the iPad : Now, before we finish up here, I want to recreate this paint strokes pattern here in Illustrator on the iPad so that you can see how it could be done. I'm going to select scrapbook size paper as my starting point. I want to select a color to use, so let's just go and choose this green color. I want a brush so I'm going to tap here on the brush tool. It shows a toolbar position with the pencil and the blob brush tool but what you want is the paintbrush. We're going to art. Here in the art brushes are some watercolor brushes. I'm just going to select one of those and I'm going to draw my paint strokes. Pretty much I'm going to do the same thing as I did on the desktop version, is switch between different brush strokes and different colors to make a design that is pleasing to me. Once I've got a few strokes I'm going to select over all of these and we're going to turn these into a repeat pattern coming down here to grid. Then selecting from the properties panel the grid repeat that we want to use. In this case again, I'm going to choose brick by column. I'll flip something. I'll do a couple of flips there. I'm going to close up my gaps. Then of course we can do all the similar things that we were doing previously. This pattern is going to work exactly as the other patterns that we've designed so far in terms of positioning it on the art board. It may run a little bit more slowly because we do have brushstrokes in there. Now we can edit those brushstroke. Let me just double tap on this. This is this red piece here. I can change its color, let's change it to a blue color. I can't add to it. Again, let's select the shape here and let's click in here so that we're getting inside the pattern if you like, go to the brush tool and I'm going to add another brushstroke. As you see the brushstroke is not being repeated. If we go to the layers panel, it's appearing above this grid repeat. It look like I've got a few paths there that I didn't expect to have either. I would probably clean these up. This path here is above the grid repeat and it's not appearing inside the grid repeat. It's not possible to get it inside the grid repeat. I don't know exactly why the two applications behave differently but they do so, just a heads up. If you want to add extra brushstrokes to this, you're going to also be faced with the issue of you can't release this pattern. It doesn't release the same way as it did on the desktop because if it did you could release it, add your extra brushstrokes and then recreate the pattern, but you can't even do that. Just be aware that it's a little less forgiving creating these painterly patterns on the iPad than it is on the desktop. Probably my preference in this case would be to work on the desktop. If I needed to mess around with exact sizing then later on, then I might bring it back to the iPad to do that. It's just working out what each of these applications can do or where their strengths are and things that they can and can't do. 15. Pt 14 - Editing a repeat pattern : Before we finish up I want to show you how you can create a design like this and this one. We're actually going to make this one because there is a trick to adding an element to these at the very end that I want to cover with you. I'm going to create a new sheet of scrapbook paper and I'm going to add a circle and a rectangle. I'm going to set my circle to 150 pixels by 150 pixels. It's going to be filled with no stroke. I'm going to make a rectangle that is the same dimensions, 150 by 150. You can see that I've done this before. In fact, I've done it a few times and the reason why I've done it a few times is because it doesn't [LAUGHTER] work. I want to show you what didn't happen. I was having a lot of trouble actually aligning these. It's probably going to work perfectly this time, but we're just going to make sure it does. I'm going to select "Horizontal Align Center". I'm also going to the Transform panel because I was getting bumps in these when I joined them up. What I'm doing is just checking the right-hand side here that its x position is at 548 and then I'm going to check the same position on the circle. Now, for some reason these have lined up perfectly this time and that's just fine. You can see the x position is 398 here on the square, and it's 398 on the circle. That's telling me that these are probably going to join perfectly because I'm recording it for you and if it was just me playing around with it, they would be half a pixel off. If they were going to be half a pixel off, you would just adjust the x values of each of these shapes so that they're identical and then when you go to the Pathfinder palette and choose "Unite", they're going to unite into a single shape that's going to make sense and it's not going to have bumps in it. I'm going to fill this with a color that I actually like and then we're going to give it a stroke. Let's go and give it a darker color as a stroke and let's increase the stroke width. At the moment my stroke's going on the inside. You can push it to the outside by opening a stroke panel up and just push it to the outside if that makes better sense to you. I've got my basic shape for my pattern. I'm going to select "Object" and then "Repeat" and "Grid". We're going back to our options. I'm going to use brick by row here because I just want to offset these shapes. Just click "Okay" and I'm going to bring in the shapes. Now, a few things to be aware of here. The stacking order or the layering order is that the shape goes higher at the bottom. You can say that these at the bottom here are over the top on the next row and the next row. You can't change that stacking order. You could in the tool that you use to make patterns, the pattern make tool in the desktop version, you can't do that on the pattern repeat version. Just be aware of that. The other thing is that at the very bottom of this pattern, you're likely to have a break so you probably want to bring in the edge of your patterns so that you don't have that break. I just want to look at it and say I want it to look differently at the bottom. I'm just going to scale this roughly and then we're going to determine that we want to add another shape to it. For having done this, I want to add a circle to my design so I'm going to the selection tool. I'm going to double-click in here and I'm going to go and find the ellipse tool and I'm going to draw out a circle. I'm Shift, dragging my circle. Now, I want to change the look of my circle, so let's go and give it a different color and we'll change its stroke to something that we can see really clearly, a purply pink stroke. Here's the problem. You can see that this has broken our design. Right now we've got the shape that we want but the design is breaking up. I'm just going to hold the Shift key as I scale this in but again it's not going into the right position. What you have to do is you have to work out which is the currently selected element? Did you remember, we could select any element in this design? But we have to make sure that this shape goes over this element because this is the selected one, this is the one we're working with. It doesn't matter which one you are working with, but you've just got to pair this shape with the one you're working with. Now I need to put it over here and now my design's making more sense. I'm just going to position it in the right place and then click away. But if you come in here and move this shape somewhere differently, let me just go and get the shape and not the whole element, you will see that it breaks up the design. That's something that happens with this pattern repeat tool. As soon as you move this element out, it's being treated as a complete design element so we probably got this shape and this shape are being treated as a single pattern repeat. Illustrator is just try to repeat those two objects and if there is a separation between them, then it's going to try and repeat that separation. Again, have your wits that if you've selected an element to work on, then anything that you want to add to the overall design will have to be in this area here because if not, you're going to start pushing your repeat out of the way. 16. Project and wrapup: We've now completed the video training portion of this course, so it's over to you. Your project for this class is to create a design using the new repeat tool in Adobe Illustrator, and to post an image of your design as your project. If you wish to do so, upload a couple of different color waves for your design, making sure of course, that you keep the originals of each in your file. I hope that you've enjoyed this course and that you've learned lots about using the new repeat tool in Adobe Illustrator. If you did enjoy this course and when you see a prompt that asks if you would recommend this class to others, please, would you do two things for me? Firstly, answer yes, that you do recommend this class, and secondly, write even in just a few words, why you enjoyed the class. Your recommendations can help other students to say that this is a course that they too might enjoy and learn from. If you'd like to leave me a comment or a question, please do so. I read all of your comments and questions and I look at and review all of your class projects. My name is Helen Bradley. Thank you so much for joining me for this episode of graphic design for lunch. I look forward to seeing you in another class here on Skillshare soon.