How to Use the Pattern Tool in Adobe Illustrator 

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Thank you Teela! Especially for the ‘scale’ tip for the pattern after it’s been applied. Others’ videos that I’d seen omitted this very helpful tip!

Wow. I've tried to use patterned backgrounds before and was never satisfied with the results. Thanks to you, I finally got a result I was happy with! Thanks!!

Super helpful! All your tutorials are really clear and straight to the point. This will help me a lot with my newest projects!!

You have the best Illustrator tutorials on RU-vid. Always so useful and well explained :)

I love this site...every subject is informative and your delivery is so easy to understand. Keep 'em coming!

THIS is so helpful! I've struggled with the color background lining up. GAH! Love how you aligned a separate square for the background. SO slick.

My one portfolio teacher recommended your two pattern tutorials to me to help me with making patterns. It's helped a whole lot. Thank you!

This is the best tutorial I've ever seen about patterns which confuses me so much. Thanks for this great job :)

Thanks! Your videos are so great, thanks for the weekly inspiration

Such a pleasure to watch beautiful design presented with a beautiful voice :)

Thank you so much!!!! You are an awesome instructor! Truly appreciate it!

I like putting two fills on the same object - the background color below and the pattern on top - so I only have to modify one shape, but my colleagues hate me for it cause they never have the Appearance panel open. :D Very kind of you to be so straight to the point and yet exhaustive in your videos! Fantastic job!

hallelujah thanks! 2 years later still very useful!

thank you for this i am self taught in illustrating and i was stuck on here have asked people i follow who show there drawings but they wouldnt share how its done so thank you xx

So helpful! Thank you for making this video!

AWESOME!!!!! You just made my day! Many many thanks!

This has helped me greatly thank you so much!

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Excellent tutorial! Thank you.

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Brilliant tutorial!

Thank you for this tutorial... It helped me in a very big.. there was some confusion but now they are gone because of explained it beautifully with details. Thanks again.. keep doing it ur really good at this,

Wow, a really packed video that will need some practice

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thank you, very helpful tutorial.

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Great tut! Even an old goat like me can learn new tricks. I like patterned backgrounds and have always made them manually. No more! Thank you.

Wish you best of luck, thanks for well explanation of tutorial.

Really great! thank you so much

Thanks a lot.. I am glad that I bumped onto you. It really helped me right on the time when I needed.

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Excellent 😊

Great Video. How do you save the pattern with the colour background as a swatch?

Thank you so much

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Love it😀

Thank you sensei

Hi! Thank you for this tutorial it was very helpful. I am having a problem with my elements when I create repeat patterns. Some of them chop in half if I lay them over the repeat square. Can you help me?

thankyou so much

Thank you so much for the tip on creating a background color. I was pulling my hair out!

nice work. keep in touch

Which way to create a pattern do you like best? With the pattern tool, or how you did it in the other tutorial about patterns? (just curious)

Thank you.

Thank you

When I opened and started a new art board my pattern was no longer there. I tried to create it again and a pop up said I already had a pattern in that name but I can't seem to find it. maybe you can help me find my pattern? I love your tutorials they are great! :)

Great!

Hi Teela, If you're providing a pattern to a supplier for printing, how do you change the scale so it is the exact scale you want? I've created the pattern much larger and want to scale it down but I'm finding it really tricky to maintain the new smaller scale. I've tried a few ways and the best option is to resize a shape with the pattern inside.But if you copy and paste the swatch into a new file and try to create a new shape (eg. the dimensions they need for their printer - fabric width etc) it reverts to it's original scale. And if I try to manually change it the background interferes with the print. (I have to create the swatch with background fill colour or the printer might forget to add it). Sorry that's so confusing but a tutorial on this would be greatly appreciated!!

my pattern will not stay centered within my shape. suggestions?

Is the transform pattern option in preference supposed to be on or off? thanks for the video.

I am so glad I discovered this tutorial. I didn't know about the Pattern Tool before. What I am wondering, though, when you change the background color, does it save as part of the pattern? Thanks!

I created a pattern (finally used those shapes I saved with the Adobe Capture App) along with this video and it went great. When I started a new art board though the swatch was no longer there. Help?! This was a fantastic tutorial Teela, thank you. Hoping to find out where the swatch disappeared to:)

how to save this pattern? i mean, i want to make a pattern for other people to use. how i suppose to save the file (so the other party could use that as a seamless pattern too)? thank you.

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We need an updated version, what’s say😅 good work

I am so glad you posted this because it brings up a question I have when doing patterns with the pattern tool and here it is. Let's say you create this pattern and now you need a swatch for a seamless background, how do you do that?

Hey, thank you so much for your both tutorials about pattern design, my question is which file do you send to the printer. I understand how with the basic tutorials. But in the case of the illustrator pattern tool, I don't know what file I need to send. They usually ask for a jpeg or png... Can you help me with that? Thank you

hey thanks so much, very good. the only thing I couldn't get was at the end, how to copy and paste the colour background underneath the pattern....i am on a PC, so I did control C copy, but then "Deselect click anywhere" I don't understand that !? do you mean SELECT at the top? - my background colour is just sitting all over the pattern, so it has been covered completely. help!! Im stuck and almost there. thanks so much ! kate

Teela: you are by far the best at tutorials. Thank you so much for all the tips! I have a question. I am a apparel designer. Most of my patterns would have a colored ground. would I be able to bring the swatch back into the swatches panel to use as a fill after you add the ground color as a last step?

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Thank you for your great tutorial :) I just have one question... Could you use the appearance panel for adding the background color by adding another fill to the object? And theoretically then even use several patterns in one object at once? :)

Can I use the pattern maker in CS6 to create a seamless pattern that fits in a square that I can use for a background image on a website? I want to create my pattern with the pattern maker and export a 300px x 300px seamless png I can use for a background. Thanks!

I want to make a pattern using illustrator c6 but from scans of photographs and cannot find any tutorial on this. Maybe you might know how? I'm thinking mirrored repeat among other things... thanks :-)

ive just tried to save my pattern and it only saved it to my files not my swatches , to use it i have to go into files and open it and it wont show up in print so for me its not saving onto my swatches not sure how to get around this ?

Thank you :-)

Hey Teela, WONDERFUL tut. If we should want to create a pattern using raster art created in Photoshop, would it be feasible to just save out the assets via the libraries, or even a PNG, and then drop them into Illustrator to construct the pattern?

Darn. I’m so bummed by this tool, or maybe the tutorial... your example nearly fit perfectly in a hexagon, so it was easy, but what if you want more items or they don’t fit well into any of the drop down items? Can you move things around?

How to create the color swatches in the Art board with code - Any short cuts ??

Any tips on when a pattern doesn't appear seamlessly on the edges? Been struggling with that for awhile.

I love this tool but while it previews perfectly, I'm winding up with fine, transparent seams in my JPEG exports where the hex pattern's rectangular bounding box would be. Any idea what is causing that? :< I'm super frustrated lol.

I look at the edges and it does not seem like it is seamless, is there a way to check that the pattern will be seamless by putting two swatch boxes together?

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For some reason, my pattern tool keeps moving my object to the top right of the artboard instead of centering it. Does anyone know how to fix this? I havent been able to find an answer.

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What the heck is the rubber band tool? I try to select the pattern parts hanging off and it grabs some nodes and not others. Not working.

This was so good but I don’t see link

How to download the project file...is it free or need to pay?...Tks

Hi, I hope you could help me with a technical problem. I want to save my pattern and sell it online. How do I save it so it can be used in other people computers?

Just commented on another video as well... so when I am in hex pattern and adjust the h and v spacing it shows the gray background in the space between... what am I doing wrong??

hi, I am not understanding what you do when you use the select tool to select the patterns you want and just move them to the side. when I do it the whole gets selected. what do you mean rubberband select ? thank you

hi hope you are fine i need to ask one question will you please tell me that good tuturiol link send me when i use pattern in any object when move that object patterns still patterns will not moving with that object

Detailed,.,.!!

Sorry Teela I have a question. I created a pattern with the pattern tool on AI. But I need to extrapolate the tile, the unit of the pattern that is repeated. How can I do that? (Sorry for my bad english ;--;)