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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@francootaola9172 Жыл бұрын

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 😁

@rodney0nline Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@Maurane_Saupiquet Жыл бұрын

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

@martinbraun599 Жыл бұрын

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!!!

@flyingsquirrel3271 Жыл бұрын

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.

@XJRULO Жыл бұрын

SUPERB!!! as always Nick!!!

@windycitysawdust Жыл бұрын

This is so awesome! Thanks for doing these videos

@dustinstratton2946 Жыл бұрын

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

@LinkOStalker Жыл бұрын

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

@rushnijohnson5099 Жыл бұрын

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

@DeannesVideos Жыл бұрын

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.

@itsmeJennaL Жыл бұрын

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

@adamelamali6467 Ай бұрын

nick your channel is great and special

@LIUXIN 3 ай бұрын

Thank you. It's really helpful.

@yanyanayan2867 Жыл бұрын

Great video as alwayas!

@Orli155 5 ай бұрын

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

@deniseoliver851 4 ай бұрын

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

@Ema-ic1zl Жыл бұрын

Nice!

@EndelaProduction Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@patrickmclaughlin6013 Жыл бұрын

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

@pedramkavian Жыл бұрын

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.

@MalcolmBlakeSeeAndHear 2 ай бұрын

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

@yevhendvyhun Жыл бұрын

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

@birdmun Жыл бұрын

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

@maritoangelo5141 Жыл бұрын

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...? 🤨

@autobotsNdecepticons Жыл бұрын

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.

@seathroughheart1125 Жыл бұрын

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

@dennyskerb4992 Жыл бұрын

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

@LogosByNick Жыл бұрын

Trying out some new things!

@rajendrameena150 Жыл бұрын

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

@demoladigital Жыл бұрын

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

@phrebh Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@phrebh Жыл бұрын

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

@andrs_a Жыл бұрын

What about trying tiled clones?

@pierrex3226 5 ай бұрын

Awesomo 3000.

@hunebare22 11 ай бұрын

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.

@romanhalaksa1446 Жыл бұрын

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

@mtm7031 Жыл бұрын

Wow

@andrs_a Жыл бұрын

The intro music has changed 👍👍👍

@user-yv7eh9xr9v Жыл бұрын

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

@Emorine Жыл бұрын

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

@melirn7280 Жыл бұрын

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!

@SuperWolfkin Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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."

@bradmeekakasilvertopflyer Жыл бұрын

Good morning Nick hope you are well

@bradmeekakasilvertopflyer Жыл бұрын

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...

@oikosu 11 ай бұрын

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

@brincher Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Look into Path Effects > Tilling

@janeg1428 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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)

@hennybobbert2563 11 ай бұрын

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.

@pablojaviervillarreal5353 Жыл бұрын

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?

@seanwu1968 Жыл бұрын

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

@westronic Жыл бұрын

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.

@ISilentHunter13 8 ай бұрын

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?

@traceyklotz 5 ай бұрын

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

@PengetahuanUmumGembira 6 ай бұрын

how to delete pattern file?

@judyteich1184 Жыл бұрын

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

@rajendrameena150 10 ай бұрын

how to make pattern library.

@CosimiCarlosA Жыл бұрын

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

@JeNn0mic0n 11 ай бұрын

@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 🙏

@Jelly-rj8fz Жыл бұрын

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

@Drax658 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Nick, where is "In da mood"? 😭

@OMGKiiro Жыл бұрын

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

@Hunter-jr3yq Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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.