Turn Any Object Into A Pattern In Inkscape

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In this lesson we'll be going over how to turn a single object into a repeat pattern with Inkscape. One of the greatest advantages of using Inkscape to perform this is that it lets you turn virtually any object into a pattern, whether it be a shape, a grouping of objects, a clipped/masked object, or even a JPEG image!
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:30 Turn an object into a pattern
04:26 Working example
08:18 Learn more

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22 авг 2022

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Комментарии : 72

@rodney0nline Год назад

I thought dropping Adobe due to their monthly rates, would mean difficulty in my graphic design career, but Gimp and Inkscape have replaced both quite easily. I miss nothing about Adobe. Hopefully the SVG format can someday save us from PDF hell.

@slimortirion8157 Год назад

In most use case they are great replacement, the only thing that both softwares are currently missing is the CMYK colour space. But you can still import your gimp file to krita and set CMYK colour space, as for SVG.... Once they will feature it they'll totally be great replacement of Adobe software

@windycitysawdust Год назад

This is so awesome! Thanks for doing these videos

@martinbraun599 Год назад

Great! I've seen a lot of your videos and learned so much. All of this is invaluable to me! Thank you so much, Nick!!!

@Maurane_Saupiquet Год назад

Amazing video as always! Simple to follow and clear! I'm so happy about the cute little patterns I've created. Thank you!

@rushnijohnson5099 Год назад

Thank you, very helpful video, so easy to follow along.

@francootaola9172 Год назад

I haven't had the time to watch the last few videos but I am really glad to see that you are back posting more frequently VIDEOS. Nick, I bought your courses that I didn't have the time to take it for the moment, but already your videos here taught everything I know and I get to do almost everything I need in Inkscape. Thank you man! You make one of the most comprehensive video explanations 😁

@XJRULO Год назад

SUPERB!!! as always Nick!!!

@dustinstratton2946 Год назад

Super cool of you to share your knowledge of graphic design. I’m signing up for your class. Thanks!

@LinkOStalker Год назад

Extremely helpful, Nick. I've had to use patterns a few times and I didn't know this easy way

@LIUXIN 3 месяца назад

Thank you. It's really helpful.

@flyingsquirrel3271 Год назад

Very cool! Btw. technically the custom patterns can probably be renamed in the XML editor. It would be nice to have a simpler option though.

@adamelamali6467 2 месяца назад

nick your channel is great and special

@itsmeJennaL Год назад

I needed to come back to tell you how helpful this tutorial was for me today. Taco patterned party hats and cupcake wrappers done in a flash, with cricut

@DeannesVideos Год назад

This is one of the features of Inkscape I wish were a little better like easily changing the name of the pattern and easier to find/grab nodes but for how good Inkscape is as a free software I can't complain too much.

@Orli155 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for the tutorial! I'm using this to make patterned bookmarks.

@deniseoliver851 5 месяцев назад

Brilliant will need to watch a second time - thank you....

@yanyanayan2867 Год назад

Great video as alwayas!

@EndelaProduction Год назад

Thank you

@Ema-ic1zl Год назад

Nice!

@MalcolmBlakeSeeAndHear 2 месяца назад

Thank you Nick. Just FYI, Inkscape have fixed those far out node handles by creating a neat transform handle box on the canvas which also appears in the fill and stroke menu. They've also added a gap x and y slider to make the padding adjustments more easily. The devs are watching you hahaha

@patrickmclaughlin6013 Год назад

Thanks Nick. Have tried making tessellations with inkscape? I made a couple with a couple of lines and the clones. Kinda interesting.

@yevhendvyhun Год назад

Yo, I almost started dancing to that intro music 😂 Didn't expect such track )

@pedramkavian Год назад

Hi Nick, I recently bought your bundle course. I wanted to know if you have any plan to make some special courses about creating game assets for 2D games with Inkscape. Because your courses are generally about learning the softwares themselves. But I really enjoyed your teaching and would like to see more specific courses.

@autobotsNdecepticons Год назад

Well that explains why I couldn't find the handles to modify the patterns. The "help" files were utterly useless on that. They say it's easy, but they don't tell you how to find the things you need to do it.

@rajendrameena150 Год назад

Is there a way to make randomisation like rotation, translation and scale in pattern.

@birdmun Год назад

Just a quick comment you could also adjust the pattern rather than the pattern filled object. In which case you can easily see the size adjustment and rotation points. I suppose the center location point is also visible in the pattern. I checked this on 1.1. I am so behind the times on my system. :P

@pierrex3226 6 месяцев назад

Awesomo 3000.

@demoladigital Год назад

Hey Nick, How can I change my Inkscape layout to match yours?

@seathroughheart1125 Год назад

Is there a master class using the most current version of Inkscape? Link? Help?

@maritoangelo5141 Год назад

Thanks alot for the pattern tutorial tip, very helpful and handy! Now, for the Inkscape software engineer... I hope they can address the issue(in the next major version of Inkscape) where 'pattern node handles' are not hidden outside of the canvas size after choosing the 'node editor' button. Hmm... why after applying the pattern, does the objet have to be soooo big by default...? 🤨

@romanhalaksa1446 Год назад

And is there any way, how to gradually change the size of these individual objects?

@andrs_a Год назад

The intro music has changed 👍👍👍

@dennyskerb4992 Год назад

What happened to my favorite intro song ? Always enjoyed your tutorials they taught me everything I know about Inkscape. 🙏 thank you

@LogosByNick Год назад

Trying out some new things!

@user-yv7eh9xr9v Год назад

when i click edit path by node, i did'nt find "x" for placement the pattern.

@Emorine Год назад

What's the difference between using this method and the seamless pattern method?

@hunebare22 11 месяцев назад

Very Helpful Video! I have a question I hope you can help me solve. I have the new inkscape 1.3 as I was following along with your video, I messed up the process a few times before I got it correctly. Now I have several unwanted pattern tiles in my tiles preview area. how can I get rid of them? Is there a way to do that even? Oh and I figured out you can rename your custom patterns just highlight the Inkscape generated name (pattern124) and type the name you want it to have. when I clicked off the name I put in was still there. Thanks for the great tutorial. P.S. I purchased your master class course last week. I'm enjoying the tutorials so far and love the little quizzes at the end.

@hennybobbert2563 11 месяцев назад

Great tutorial, however I'm trying to export this pattern as a PNG and it shows up as all black when it's finished. I deselect the whole thing and go to export like I normally do all my images, however the result is just a long rectangular black box. Please help. Thank you.

@mtm7031 Год назад

Wow

@pablojaviervillarreal5353 Год назад

Hi Nick! I have a problem with patterns. I'm trying to change the color when I use a default pattern but I can't. I think I by used do it going to extension > color > replace color, but that way doesn't work. Could be it a bug in the latest version? Could anybody help me?

@melirn7280 Год назад

Hi Nick, I've been trying to create a fill pattern with an image of one of my tumblers I made. I love the swirls and colors on the cup and would like to make a fill pattern in inkscape. It is a jpg image. Is this possible? I have spent hours trying to figure it out and I gave up. LOL - I am enrolled in your masterclass but didn't see anything about making a pattern using an actual jpg. Thank you!

@judyteich1184 Год назад

How would I turn a graphic into a knitting pattern? Can I import a picture into Inkscape and make a knitting pattern?

@oikosu 11 месяцев назад

Excuse me, would it be possible to scale or move the pattern precisely? Say by mm?

@seanwu1968 Год назад

Is it possible to precisely assign the size of an object in the pattern?

@westronic Год назад

You can create an extra object, then enter the precise X, Y location for this object (top middle toolbar). Enable Snapping (magnet icon in the top-right). Using the technique in this video, move the texture "handle" to snap onto the extra object, then delete it.

@janeg1428 Год назад

Hi, great tutorials. Just wondering how I save a pattern to Cricut Design Space - there is obviously something I am not doing which is causing the file not to be recognised. Can you help? Thanks.

@LogosByNick Год назад

The pattern feature in this lesson is an Inkscape-specific feature, so it wouldn't be recognized in Design Space. To import a pattern from Inkscape you'd have to create it manually (making duplicate copies and spacing them out)

@phrebh Год назад

Great tutorial as always. I haven't played around with it, but is there a way to offset the rows and/or columns of the pattern without creating a mini version of it and using that as the object to use?

@LogosByNick Год назад

Not that I’m aware of. As far as I know you can only change the position, scale, and rotation.

@phrebh Год назад

@@LogosByNick That's what I thought, thanks. The workaround is easy enough, at least. 🙂

@andrs_a Год назад

What about trying tiled clones?

@bradmeekakasilvertopflyer Год назад

Good morning Nick hope you are well

@bradmeekakasilvertopflyer Год назад

If ever you visit north Georgia I would love to have you as my guest at the pizzeria I work for, very unique environment, 30 seats very high volume, I cook around 2800 pies a week ,all wood fired locally sourced or imported. I call it designer pizza,no pun intended....lol...

@brincher Год назад

In Krita, all you have to do is press Shift + W and voilà, you can see your design as a pattern in the whole canvas right away. I whish Inkscape had this function as well.

@lemonline3719 Год назад

Look into Path Effects > Tilling

@traceyklotz 5 месяцев назад

what if i want to turn one of my sketches into a repeating pattern

@SuperWolfkin Год назад

So the real question here on this awesome video is can you edit the pattern source after you've converted the object to pattern? Does it lock in the shape?

@westronic Год назад

If you have an object that was converted to a pattern still in your document, you can select it and go to "Object" on the menu bar, then "Pattern > Pattern to Objects."

@JeNn0mic0n 11 месяцев назад

@LogosByNick While I appreciate this tutorial, I believe there's a key factor missing, or at least a tutorial that's missing. The error I'm coming across is that when you create a pattern, you can't just save the pattern as a PNG background. When I try to do this, the x0 and y0 coordinates within the Export PNG menu do not change, which means it's not being registered or treated as an image that can be exported. How do I achieve actually placing the pattern on a background and exporting that finished product as an image please? I've followed this tutorial, created and saved my pattern, and to export an actual patterned background, I've tried Grouping, selecting everything, alternating between Page/Document/Drawing/Selection, and the only think that gets exported is an all-black image. Any help would be appreciated - thank you 🙏

@ISilentHunter13 8 месяцев назад

Hi Nick, i don't know if you still read comments for this videos but currently i'm having a problem that is when i try to export after making a pattern, like i'm trying to make an overlay, the pattern section doesn't show anything, is completely transparent, all the other objects remain the same, but the layer with the pattern is just transparent even when is visible in the app, what you think could be causing this?

@CosimiCarlosA Год назад

It does not export jpg/png with the pattern. What's up?

@PengetahuanUmumGembira 6 месяцев назад

how to delete pattern file?

@rajendrameena150 11 месяцев назад

how to make pattern library.

@Jelly-rj8fz Год назад

haha "Lost in Space....." that's how I think of those cray missing handles.. haha

@Drax658 Год назад

I had to come back to this video to recall how the patterns work because of those handles. I don't get why You can't manipulate the pattern by scaling and rotating the root object of the pattern. It would be so much more convenient.

@Drax658 Год назад

Nick, where is "In da mood"? 😭

@OMGKiiro Год назад

I just can't work this software. GIMP is leagues above it in being user friendly.

@Hunter-jr3yq Год назад

OOPS!!! Many of us newbies mess up! We draw a stroke with bezier pen then click convert stroke to path while holding bezier pen. Now we can’t bend strokes on newly drawn lines as the sides of the line stretches out. IFinally fixed it, don’t know how. Help us new folks! P.S. Uninstal and re-instal Inkscape doesn’t help. Lol

@LogosByNick Год назад

Once a stroke is converted to a path there is no going back. You'll have to create a new path, or use the "undo" function to go back far enough.

@martinbraun599 Год назад

You can solve the problem by editing the stroke-to-path object via "Path / Path Effects / Bend". It is important that you activate the "Edit on the workspace" icon before bending. I wish you success! Incidentally, you can turn the path effect back into a completely normal, neutral, curved object afterwards. Just go to "Path / Object to Path". I hope I made myself clear. I work with a German-language Inkscape. So I may not have really hit the original English Inkscape-terms when translating.