When you’re done with this tutorial, check out my free Ultimate Guide to Becoming A Textile Designer.
Working with both Photoshop & Illustrator, I’ll show you how to create a repeating plaid pattern swatch from a raster (pixel based) image.
You will learn:
- How to crop your image in Photoshop and what resolution you need to use (00:48)
- How to crop with perspective (CS5 and earlier) (01:29)
- How to Place raster (jpg, tiff, png) images in Illustrator (02:09)
- What is a Linked file? (02:19)
- How to Embed a Linked file (02:52)
- How to convert an image into a pattern swatch in Illustrator (3:23)
