Design Class: How to Create a Seamless Repeat Pattern in Gimp | Spoonflower

welcome back maybe if some of you have attended multiple Symposium sessions today welcome for the first time if you are just joining us if you can go ahead everyone I'm going to give a couple minutes for people to join but if you can go ahead and say hello and chat alright I see those hellos starting to roll in I think today we have already asked you where you are tuning in from we've asked you your favorite color so I'm gonna go totally off book and ask you your favorite dessert it's only 3 30 in the afternoon here in New York and I'm already thinking dessert so pop in the chat what your favorite dessert is seeing a lot of variety already love it someone said pie getting me in the mood for the holidays already awesome all right well you all are sharing with us your names and your favorite desserts I'm gonna go ahead and launch into our presentation so like I said welcome back or maybe welcome for the first time to the surface design Symposium in this session we're gonna talk about creating seamless repeat patterns in but before we do that I just want to give you a little information today's event is being co-presented by spoonflower and craft industry Alliance my name is Jessie Katz Greenberg I'm the artist Community manager here at spoonflower spoonflower is a print-on-demand manufacturer that produces wallpaper home decor and fabric our online Global Marketplace connects makers and consumers with Independent Artists all over the world who earn royalties every time their designs are purchased any artist can set up shop now at spoonflower.com to start growing your surface design business I already see a couple people asking if this if there'll be a replay available for this session and yes just know if you miss anything we are going to share replays on the spoonflower blog within the next few weeks um craft industry Alliance our co-presenter they know that building a business is a lot of hard work and you don't need to go It Alone craft industry Alliance is a community for craft professionals where you can get advice and support every single day build your network alongside other artists and makers plus get in-depth coverage of craft industry news and ideas tools and resources to help you make smart decisions and you can join and learn more at craft industryalliance.org and with that I know we are all here to learn about creating patterns and gimpse so Gaia I am going to head into the background I will see you all in chat and I'll let you tell us a little bit more about yourself and launch into your presentation okay okay so welcome to this class and uh you know I am Gaia marfors from Italy and today I will teach you how to create a seamless pattern with game so with us a free software and so if you don't have it you can go on dot get dot org and free download it and um so what are we going to learn I will teach you how to draw in digital with a with a tablet but if you uh if you don't have a tablet you can still use and about a three or four years ago I I made uh I already made a tutorial for spring flower you can find it uh going on in the blog maybe Jesse can share the link and you can find a free tutorial where you can start using with your own sketches with your illustrations made with a traditional art supplies with wash watercolor you know you can import your drawings and create a seamless pattern uh with but today uh we learned to draw digital with a tablet okay and we'll do a seamless pattern so I'm going to show you my own process because you know with this kind of software you can do things in so many different ways and I'm going to teach you my favorite process to create patterns and um I'll show you only the main tools I use because there are so many Tools in this kind of software of course and I think that at the end of this Workshop you you will be able to you will be enough confident to start learning a lot more just by yourself experimenting other brushes and you know other things and whatever and and I wish also to show you how to create textures because um when you do a pattern you also need a seamless texture you know and so we are going to see also this this really useful thing okay uh so um okay without I I have to put my timer because I have to see how long uh if the the class because you know at the end I will answer all your questions so it's better to have a timer okay I will start uh sharing my uh my screen so I ask for the window okay I'm starting to share it okay uh I'm uh it's the window is smaller I did it really small because in this way you should be able to see uh you should be able to see better all the icons you know all the all the icons here and and the things okay it's not really uh good for me I I would like to work with a bigger window but I think you will be able to see better okay what I'm going to to click okay so um let's start giving a look to this software okay when you open for the first time uh you will probably have already have some uh Windows some boxes that are open you know for example on the top left you should be able to see uh the toolbox okay and uh below the toolbox you should be able to see the tool options uh box okay for example if I click on the brush icon you will see below all the options for the brush okay but if I click on the bucket you will see other options of course okay so this is the option tools box okay another important window that you should already see is uh on the bottom right it's the layers window okay because we are going to use it it's a really important to have it and if you can't see any of these uh windows boxes you can find them all going on the main menu on Windows and here you can see the toolbox you can also call the toolbox using the keyboard Ctrl B okay and if you go on dockable dialogs you will see there are so many windows but we don't need all of them of course so you will see the layers okay you can open it and what test the the option the tool options okay so if you can see them you can find them here this is important because sometimes you can just close accidentally of a window and then you get lost oh my God where are all my tools you can find all them here so um now we can start creating our file so you go on file new and when you open uh and when you create your file you can choose of course the sides okay um today we are creating a small pattern so just 2 000 pixel for two thousand but I usually uh work with a bigger size I usually create uh patterns that are four thousand for ten four thousand and you know that you can change here pixel with inches if if you prefer or with yards this can be really useful when you are planning for example a tutorial uh so you need a fat quarter size you know for spoon flower and also uh the yards are useful when you are planning um cut and sew projects you know I once made I made um a costume for Halloween there was a challenge and you had to do um a dress for Halloween and so this is useful to to change here pixel with yards or inches okay if you need it and then uh another really important thing to do is you have to go here on Advanced options okay and here you can you you can see um the the resolution uh you need at least 150 pixels for inch okay because we are going to print this drawing and we need high resolution I usually work with the 300 pixel for inch and um but if your laptop is not so good you have not so much memory so much around it it's enough 150 okay and then last thing to say is that I prefer to work with all transparent liars and so you have to change here fill width maybe you have foreground color maybe and you have to change it with transparency because you have to know that there are two kinds of liars there are liars with a background and when you try to cut something on this kind of layer you will never see what's below this layer okay you will see a background color okay so it's it can't be transparent in this kind of liar and I find this thing so confusing I I hate this kind of of liars really so I highly recommend to work always with transparent Liars okay Kaya sorry I'm gonna interrupt for one moment it looks like we lost your mouse and we weren't seeing what you were um what you were sharing okay um so let's see oh I see your mouse now can you see it now um can you see this window the you know it started with new document I wonder if you're new we're seeing a window that is not the document you are working in uh ah okay yes because maybe you can only see the the main window let's yes I think that's it so if we need to see if I can change here the thank you it's too big let's wait a moment yes maybe in this way but it's so oh this is not really good but let's try in this way maybe now you can see the right window this is the right window um we actually um let's see yes we're only seeing the two because you can see only one window when I open and if I open a new window with you can see it okay so um okay um Let's uh uh I don't know if I can change here okay I uh this window I opened this window um in the advanced option okay this is the window when you go on file uh open uh new new file you have this window okay and as I said you can choose the the sides okay the the size of the pattern I I put 2000 pixel for two thousand okay and I told you that you can change in inches if you need yards you know and then I I click it here on Advanced options okay you have to click on this Plus on Advanced options and check the resolution okay because we need a high resolution and so at least the 150. and then I told you that you have to go here on fill with can you see my window now um you have to go on fill width and put transparency okay because I told you that there are two kind of liars and um some Liars for example very often JPEG files have this kind of layer that when you try to cut something you see an a color as background and they are not transparent you know so my advice my recommendation is try always to work with transparent liar because they are less confusing it's better okay now we are ready to say okay and now you have to tell me if you are seeing the right right I have to change again the window I think this is the right window okay now I'm sharing the main window okay now you should be able to see the main window because we open it the the file okay I hope you uh you are seeing everything okay yes we see your window okay because I I had to change it okay and now you can see our file our file is transparent so we have like a chest pattern because there is nothing and here on the Liars uh box you can see our layer the name is background okay and now we can fill it we can start filling the background with a color so you go on the toolbox and uh what you can click on the on this Square the foreground color okay we are never using the the background only the foreground color when you click here oh my God I hope you can see this window now that I have that I open it I saw um I saw your mouse when you were rolling over the like teal and orange color um but you can see the window you know what I'm going to share all my all my on my monitor because it's better so let's try in this way okay because in this way you will be able to see um to see better all the windows I open but the the the bad thing is that all the icons will be smaller you know yeah this is great though that we see all your screen and for anyone attending if you close your chat then her screen share will be even larger and you'll be able to see a little bit better um guy we did get one quick question how can you tell that it's a transparent layer um what question I didn't understand um you mentioned opening up a transparent layer how can you tell it's a transparent layer the transparent background uh you you can understand it's transparent because you see this chest pattern okay awesome okay because when you have nothing on your file you see this uh this this pattern okay it means there is nothing at all in your file okay and and now uh we are going uh you and now I think you you you can't see my this other window the color window I called it uh clicking here okay you click on the foreground color on the toolbox and you will be able to see this window and to choose the color you wish okay so uh there is this uh Spectrum this rainbow you can choose to color I wish to to use a a green and you can choose it lighter darker more saturated less saturated you know so I will choose this kind of green and then I say okay and now if you go on the toolbox and you um you click on the bucket filter okay on the bucket you can use it click in here and now our background is ready okay so I hope you are seeing well because I had to to use all the all the Monitor and probably now the window is not the the perfect size but I hope it's okay and [Music] um okay now we need another liar of course because the main drawing we are going to do the main drawing on another layer so you can go on layer new layer okay you can give a name to your layer here okay uh I wrote my pattern okay and check that the layer is transparent always transparent so feel with the transparency okay and then you say okay and in the in the layers uh box you should see this new layer okay um above the the background uh you can always uh change and for example you can grab your layers and put one below okay you can do this thing you have also two arrows here to do this thing okay and uh and now uh a really important thing is when you start drawing always check on which layer you are drawing because this is something that designers very often make this mistake because you are drawing and you don't remember to to give a look and you draw on the wrong on the wrong layer okay for example on the background so check you you can't be in this way you you must be with this layer selected okay and then you start drawing let's choose another color of course so go always here on the foreground color icon and choose another color I will choose I know wrench okay like this one okay and now you can choose a brush there are so many brushes on deep that um you will find group of brushes so if you go here I hope you can see the icon of the brushes okay here you should have the main group of brushes okay paint brush tool that you can call also with the key on the keyboard with P um and I want to show you if you click here you can see all the brushes there are many brushes for example just let's try oh my God this went out but okay let's try to use this one okay this is a really simple brush that you can use okay edit under paint brush or Ctrl fit okay but you can also I want to show you today another brush that I really love and so you can if you click on with the right button on your mouse you can change here and find other groups of brushes so try to click here my paintbrush you can call this group of brushes also using Epsilon okay on the keyboard and here on the tool options the two options went out of my box but it's still the same okay you can see it and this is my favorite brush but it's a group of brushes so you can try so many brushes we don't have time of course to try all of them so I want to show you this one today okay and I will use it with a base opacity uh at two so the bigger base opacity and the bigger hardness it's a one okay you can change the radius how As You Wish okay and now I am going to show you how it works and why I love it because uh you um when you press very much on your tablet becomes bigger you see if you press not too much it's a thinner and so this is so good because you can do something like jeez okay like calligraphy and okay now let's do control control set or just go on edit under okay when you have to undo your actions and uh I love it because it's so similar to a real brush you know and now let's start drawing something okay I will draw really simple leaves because we have no time to do a really difficult pattern okay I'm drawing them with the closed lines you know so later we can with the bucket we can feel it and so um I I love this this part uh this uh this brush really so much because um because of this thing that you can change uh it's it's so similar to real brush you know and uh if you want a thin line you can do it without having to go here and change the radius you know this is so good and um okay with the bucket you can really uh fast you can feel your leaves when you use the bucket pay attention on your tool options window to uh to have a threshold uh quite High okay it's better and uh um I usually don't want the anti alias in here okay it's better without this thing I think uh it's uh it feels better the the leaves and sometimes I double click to be really sure there are not Sometimes some pixel can remain empty you know so sometimes I double click to be sure it's um good it's uh filled in a good way okay and always with the the same brush that I love so much you click here and you can also uh use it uh like an erase tool so you just click here erase with this brush and you can go on your leaves for example and do something like this in such a fast easy way okay you can use it and you can also draw something erasing you know this is something I love so much when I do patterns you know that I can draw a raising okay you draw something that is empty you are seeing here the background okay I'm not drawing with green okay something like this I can also write with this wonderful it is wonderful brush okay um you can change colors in a really fast way always going um here okay on the foreground color you you choose whatever you wish and then you say okay and we start and still in a race mode you can start creating other things for example some leaves okay in this way some other leaves I am in a form wood let's try to do also a little fox here just to do something silly okay and as you can see I'm just working without these are really simple uh illustrations you know and um and so I don't need to do a sketch before starting creating my patterns and usually I just work in this way and with this always with this brush if I have to erase to change something maybe these uh oh my God these um I have the zoom tool that is not in the right mode okay this is the zoom tool let's zoom in if I have to uh to fix the fox because it's not uh good I just put erase mode to my brush and I start fixing my fox okay in this way and maybe she's too fat okay let's do the fox a little smaller you know but maybe you prefer to create a sketch and then uh to create a new layer and do the the right things over the sketch you know some people prefer to work in this way so you can just you know you can always create many layers you you will create a layer with the name sketch and you will be able um let's zoom out you will be able to use you know to work uh in a fast way just uh dirty way you know and then when you are sure that you love the composition you create a new layer and uh above the the sketch and you work uh without problems um now uh for this uh lesson I'm just working direct okay with simple illustrations of course because it's uh faster okay uh and you also you can also import your sketches of course maybe you made with the real pencils some sketches you can always go on file this is important to learn you go on file you say open as Liars okay and in this way you will be able to open uh another image as a liar as a new layer so you can open your sketches made with tenses or whatever you have and use them as a reference when you have to draw your pattern of course okay now as you can see we need to do the offset what does it mean you know that you we are creating a seamless factor and we need to add some drawings that will be half on this uh border and have here half year and a half year because uh a good seamless pattern can't be empty here you can't just feel all this style it will not repeat well you know so this is the most important thing to learn if you want to be a pattern designer let's go on layer okay you go online transform and now offset this is the most important thing to learn so liar transform Offset you click on offset okay and now we can move our pattern in in two ways you could just change here the X okay because I I want to start moving it just horizontally and feel so and put something here okay if you want to fill this part you have to move the Epsilon okay so let's start with the Epsilon because we have so much empty space here okay and you can just [Music] write here 1000 y 1000 because um our Square our file is two thousand so I want to move half of the sides okay and I say okay and now the empty space is in the middle okay and I can start drawing here but now I want to just undo this thing because I want to show you again and because this is so important so we go again on layer transfer offset okay I said you can just here you can write on the Epsilon 1000 but there is a faster way to do this thing you can just go here grab your um your drawing okay you grab it and you move the the the liar okay so uh this is so fast so uh so fast to do and when you are okay with the movie you say okay and now you start feeling this empty space okay so we are we we um we use our brush and we'll do oops I am always in a race mode I always forget to to change the erase mode okay we can start feeling this part of our drawing there is let's do in this way let's use another color okay because I want something lighter for example from this and I will oops always erase mode and I will draw something else okay and um when you need a color maybe I forgot to tell you this thing when you need to use again for example this pink you can use the color Color Picker tool okay so I click here because I need this color and I [Music] and then I started drawing with this color okay in this way um so uh I hope you are following everything I I will just repeat the main things okay we are working with this brush okay um sometimes I agree I use the erase mode as you have seen okay for example I can do something here in arrays mode okay and [Music] um and what else and when you need to pick a color you know you need this tool okay now let's do the offset one more time in this direction so you go on layer I'm always repeating the same thing so you should be able to to follow me and just I grab it okay and I put this part of the pattern here in the middle so I can better fill this part I pick with this bigger tool Color Picker tool I have the IE I pick the right color then always with my favorite brush I will draw some other details okay in this way and now I I can say that this pattern is already a good seamless pattern you you could already um upload it let's do the offset again because I want to to fill here there is too much empty space um you could already use it and upload it on some flower okay because um it's a it's with flat color but it's good it it is a seamless pattern okay um and so I'm I'm going to show you how to export this file how to save it and how to export okay you go on file uh you all I highly recommend always save it uh as a um an xccf file because this is the extension of and you will have all your layers in this way but this is not an extension good for uh spoon flowers so you have also I'm you have also to export the pattern in another extension so you say export as you give a name here to your pattern of course and then you can select here um the extension I usually export it as a PNG okay or you can also export it as a JPEG you can find all the extension here okay for example here is the jpeg I'm saying cancel because I'm not exporting it now so okay we are at a good point because we learned how to draw with a brush with my favorite brush and how to do a seamless pattern okay and now I want to show you how to add um a texture on your pattern okay uh so um I made a texture with real watercolor on paper and then I imported this image um on my computer okay and so now I'm I will open as a layer okay every time you need to open something in this file in this image you open as layers and I am going to open these um watercolor it's an image that is just 2000 for 2000 pixel so it's a right the size we need and uh okay my my computer is quite slow but it opened it and um and this is uh okay this is our uh texture you can uh find some free textures on online too or you can import your own textures like I did okay you can do a watercolor or brush or some lines with uh ink whatever you wish and then you import this texture okay now if you are following my class uh just try to import an image it should it's better if the image is Big it's big okay if it is uh more than 2 000 for 2000 it's better because you will be able to to create uh the texture in uh in an easy way but you know this is not a seamless uh texture okay a seamless pattern so just to show you what I mean if I go online yeah say transform and say offset okay um just to show you can you see I hope you can see it on my monitor there there are some lines here because this is not um seamless texture okay so we are just using it to create a real seamless texture and you have to use these uh tool this selection tool it's the free select tool it's like uh maybe a lace in English you uh you pick this tool and try to create a really um I really will shade weird shape okay it must be irregular okay and uh and so you have this selection okay now you have two copy this selection okay so you go on editor edit copy or Ctrl C if you are really smart with your keyboard I'm not smart with my keyboard and then you have to paste this uh select this selection that we copied pay attention because you have to paste as a new brush so this is difficult because you have to go to edit okay in the main menu edit paste as okay and then paste it as a new brush because we are creating a brush okay we need this brush to create our seamless texture and you give a name to it okay for example watercolor okay you give it a name and you say okay I hope you followed this part because it's difficult okay and now you can select no one okay we have our brush and you can also delete this layer because we don't need it anymore it's not a good liar for us it's not a good texture it's not seamless so just let's delete it you can give go here Below on the on the bottom right here there is an exit de la this layer and and now let's create a new layer always transparent okay pay attention it must be transparent always and let's name it texture okay seamless text seamless texture okay because this is the right one and we say okay and now here we are going to use our new brush so you go on this icon of the brushes you uh you have to pick the the group the main group of brushes so you can just go here and click p on your keyboard okay and you will see on the tool options the the the main group of brushes where you can find your own brush with the name in this in I I named it watercolor okay this is the main uh box the main group of brushes okay and you can find it here uh so um I repeat this thing because sometimes it's difficult to understand that here on this icon of the brushes you have many groups of brushes okay we were using uh the Epsilon group okay and now we are using the P group and so you can also um click to on the right button of your mouse to find all the groups okay let's go on this one and you will find your your own brush okay and now this brush is really big and uh because I have here uh selected a really big size okay but it can be also small you can change the sides here in the options okay you can change the size I recommend to use it really big now and uh look at the Dynamics because I am using the Dynamics if you click here on the Dynamics you can change them um I'm using track Direction okay because it's better when you are creating a text or so it's there are so many things to learn I hope you are following uh in a fine way okay so we we change the Dynamics with the track Direction and now you should be able um to start check that you are working on the right layer not on your drawing okay we are on the seamless texture and start using this brush like a stamp just click oh my God the opacity is not good the opacity must be uh uh oh my God 100 okay 100 okay and start just clicking and using it just like a stamp okay you have not to do this thing you have just to click and the track Direction option is good because uh the texture is um more confusing how can I say okay now you can just feel everything in this way click click click click click okay it's like a stamp but of course you know that it's not steel um a repeating texture because we need to give a look to the borders okay so just say liar transform offset it's always the same thing okay we are always doing this thing liar transform offset and now look I'm grabbing it okay and I I'm putting the corner in the meat the corners in the middle of my square okay in this way and now you you can see I think you can see the lines they are not good just say okay to the offset and always with our wonderful brush we'll feel this horrible lines in this way okay pay attention not to go half on the border okay pay attention to stay inside and now this is a seamless texture oh I'm so happy of it so you go on layer you say transform offset just to show you I'm doing it just to show you that now if I move it can you see it's perfect oh my God this is perfect our seamless seamless texture so just say okay and now we can start using it we have five minutes left uh maybe also ten I don't know because I want to give you space to ask me questions but now we are ready to to use this texture so just duplicate it okay duplicate it and hide one of these textures okay this one we can hide it now at the moment and this one I'm here on the Liars okay on the layers window grab this one and put it here below your drawing okay so we can start using it as a background okay uh you could also merge these two layers if you don't want to have too many liars really you could merge them um I assure you you just say merge down and now you have just one background with a texture a seamless texture and you could you go on colors colorize this is the best way the easiest way to change colors let's put uh dark okay lightness must be darker also the saturation no not the youth saturation okay and the Darkness okay and you can change you can also change the colors of course you see this is so good these uh this tool and you say okay and now you have your seamless background but you can add this texture also uh to the your details to your drawing so um I highly recommend uh to always to duplicate the the seamless texture because uh you need always to have one good text or how how to preserve one of them so always duplicate it okay uh put one of it here below you you need it just as a reference when you have to duplicate again another texture and now we are using this one okay let's hide it a moment because we have to go on our main layer my pattern the layer with your drawings okay you go here you selected this layer and then you have to pick a really useful tool it's the select by color tool but maybe you can't see it on your toolbox because you are seeing the footsie you are seeing this one probably okay the footsie select tool so you go and put your fuzzy okay the the magic wand okay you go here you click with your right bottom uh of the mouse you know and you uh you use this tool select by color okay and this is a really useful tool because I can select by color so I'm selecting only the purple details okay so now uh pay attention now we go on our uh texture here so let's make it visible now we are here okay we selected on our main layer my pattern but now we are going here on the texture we say select invert okay and we say cut because I'm cutting everything else perfect and now deselect everything so you go on select no one okay and now I have a texture also on my details can you see and I can of course I can change colors I go on colors color eyes and I can change it because I want it to be maybe purple okay in this way I can change the filtration I can change everything okay so we added a seamless texture also to our details okay and you can do it again of course for the orange details you will duplicate this texture okay always duplicate it because you need to always have a good one but you don't cut okay you grab it and you put it here height I'm just repeating the same thing so I'm going faster because I'm just repeating the same actions remember always to go on the right layer I'm going on my pattern and I'm going to select with the select by color tool my orange leaves okay then when I've selected them I go on this on this seamless texture okay I make it visible of course and remember to say select invert because you have to cut all the other things not the details so invert and then say cut to select everyone everything okay and this is all we add the textures uh to the pattern so I'm uh the end and now I can answer your questions okay if you have any questions um I forgot to show you uh how to use another really important tool because we didn't need in this session but another really important tool is this one um it is near this wave I don't know what what the wave is okay but you need to learn how to use uh this this group of uh transform tools okay maybe you see I'm filled maybe now you are seeing this one okay this is the icon uh you go here you click here and you can find really important tools like rotate and scale okay and flip some details these are tools that you uh sometimes you need to know how to use okay and so uh it wasn't for important for this session but I want to show you okay just um just a scale one just to show you um let's um hide the texture now just to show you that you can always uh with this free select tool you can always select something some detail and then with this tool you can go here and of course scale it okay and say scale and change the the side and when you do it you have always to um I want to show you this thing because it's different from from Photoshop you know when you scale it you will be working on a floating selection here on the layers this is really important to know and when it is in this way you can also move it but it is like on a floating layer okay and when you are okay with your detail you are okay you go outside of your selection and you anchor it to the main layer okay it was on this layer this Leaf so I wanted to show this little thing because if you don't know it you could be confused when you try to transform something on your uh on your pattern okay so here you can find the rotate tool and the transform tool and you can start using them okay I am at the end I hope you enjoyed my my class okay this was amazing Gaia and everyone I don't know if you have had a chance to see the chat while you were teaching but everyone is loving all of your tips asking where they can learn more from you so we have been sharing your Instagram and your website and your skillshare in the chat um we have a few minutes left so I do want to get to some of the questions that we've received um let's see if you want to I know we've got the Inception thing going here but it's probably a good idea to keep your screen up in case any of these questions require you to show it uh first a lot of questions about what drawing tablet are you using okay I'm using a really really old Wacom tablet it's a intros I bought it I think 12 years ago it's really old and um okay I don't know if I can show you but this is It's really big and you don't need to do such a big tablet really so I think if you don't have a tablet you can buy a really cheaper one but the wac home are really good okay just a cheaper cheap one you don't need such a big tablet awesome um and we got several questions about the differences between and other design programs specifically differences between and Photoshop or and procreate can you talk about that a little bit yes okay um I know Photoshop because I started working with Photoshop when I was uh really young at the school and I have to see that the Photoshop and are really so similar okay so switching from one to another it's not so difficult and I tried to show you now in the last part of the session the the main things that are really quite different so you and they can be a little confusing you know this thing that you can have a floating liar this is something that you don't have on Photoshop no and when I started working with I was quite lost because I couldn't understand how it worked but they are so similar really and but is free and so I'm so happy of it I know also procreate and I've been working with appropriate and also with Art Studio Pro on my iPad because now I'm working a lot with my iPad because I have some eyes problems because I'm getting older so I prefer to work with the iPad and and I have to say that I don't like procreate so much because when you use procreate you you are obliged to use so many liars I hate using so many liars as you have seen I I found a process my own process to work where I have all the details all the colors just on one layer but I leave this layer with flat colors because in this way with the the tool selectable color tool I can always change uh all the oranges all the blues you know so it's so easy to create a collection without having thousands of liars because if you have work with many liars I get lost I always get lost with too many liars I hate it and you need so much memory so the iPad should be so uh powerful how can I say so um I don't like procreate because it doesn't have this tool the select by color tool and this is the reason why I used to wear work with my iPad I prefer to work with um uh oh my God I can't remember the name uh it is Art Studio Pro Art Studio Pro is a similar to photoshop and to and you have the selected by color tool okay so I highly recommend it I also use procreate but I hate this thing that you don't you can select by color we all have the things that make us like one program for different uses over another one um another question here from Andrea what you're creating here in is this vector or raster I didn't understand uh is this a vector image in ah okay it's not a vector if you want to use the vector I highly recommend inkscape it's also free and I made some classes on skillshare about inkscape so if if you wish to work free with a vector software I highly recommend inkscape I can't hear sorry that was me being muted um which is ironic because what I was saying was I just heard from someone in the chat that sound went out but we are getting sound on our end which means that the replay will be fine so if you view the replay just to catch that last little answer when it is available um on the spoonflower blog within just a few weeks you should have everything so we are right at time I know we had so many great questions but some of them even Gaia you answered during the presentation you it was like you knew what people were going to be asking almost like you've taught before so thank you so much for being such a great teacher and for joining us today we really appreciate it and I know everyone in the chat has been loving this too so everyone in the chat please show some love to Gaia as we sign off here and for all of you attending thank you I hope some of you are going to be joining us for the next two sessions as we wrap up the Symposium today um and guy I just thank you so much thank you to you I was really happy to to share all these things with with you awesome thank you all right well bye everyone and hopefully we'll see you at a future session bye bye

Channel: Spoonflower

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Keywords: Spoonflower, DIY tutorials, custom printed fabric, print on demand, Spoonflower Artist, Creative Community, fabric, wallpaper, home decor

Id: A0OQMpDRt40

Length: 60min 38sec (3638 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 16 2022