May 2012 Tutorial - Create Seamless Patterns in Xara Designer Pro X

[Gare]

I'm seeing a lot of positive effort on this thread.

By the way, because the final tile is going to be a bitmap, you can, in fact, use masked bitmaps as repeating elements.

I already had two bitmaps trimmed, from years ago in Photoshop, but I use Xara practically daily to make refined, accurate image masks. You nudge imported photos exactly as you do vector shapes you draw. Or make a combination of elements.



-g

[angelize]

Here is another one from me. I used two plugins for this one, first I added noise to my background with Xara's add noise filter and I used Eye Candy 6 Chrome for the gold spirals.

I found that the noise plugin caused some anti aliasing which resulted in a white seam so to work around that I cloned my noisy background square and resized it big enough to cover everything and sent it to the back then when I created my tile the anti aliasing blended with the background and seam gone

[Seagull]

Okay, while I am still logged on, I will present my feeble effort.

[Gare]

Not feeble at all, Seagull, although you're right—it makes me lean a little to the right while looking at it!

Free yourself up a little, seagull. Make the pattern elements different sizes and don't be afraid to nudge some elements off the background. In the tutorial, I wanted to suggest that a pattern doesn't have to look regularly spaced.

Frances just posted a nice one that looks asymmetrical. It's one of many ways to go; have fun, let's see some more from you, and thanks for posting!

My Best,

Gary

[steve.ledger]

[Seagull]

Yeah, it is busy, for sure, it is busy. I was debating whether to call it dizzy or mal de mer (vomit), but seening how this is a family show I went for dizzy. However, I was basically trying for this effect instead of the random pattern which you showed on the tutorial and which everybody else is doing. I was just wondering if the technique could be used to create, for example, a plait pattern like on a kilt. I am not exactly sure if I have proved my point or not but I'm kind of thinking it can. A nice, soft, pastal plait could make a nice background for a web site was where my mind was at. And with that tongue twister I will bid you a goodnight

[guyke]

It's a nice one Seagull, but I'm not sure it will tile seamlessly...