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12 Days of Design: Day 9 Discover Repeats

January 9, 2017

So — you’ve gone through all the hard work of creating a design and that’s great, but you’re not done yet! It still needs to repeat. A fun feature of Spoonflower is that you can set up your preferences on scale and repeat for each type of product (fabric, wallpaper and gift wrap). An image can be large scale for fabric and then smaller scale for gift wrap. We also offer 5 different types (basic, half-drop, half-brick, mirrored and centered) of repeats that let you use one simple element to create a fabulous design. Let’s go over each one.

This is an example of the basic repeat, which will be the default repeat on the design when you first upload it to your Spoonflower account. [Read more…] about 12 Days of Design: Day 9 Discover Repeats

Fine-tuning Your Fabric Design

December 9, 2014

Did you know that we can print your artwork no only onto fabric, but also wallpaper and gift wrap? Well, we can! With Spoonflower, you can upload your design and make it available for one, or all of these products!

A fun feature of our site is that you can set up your preferences on scale and repeat for each type of product. So an image can be large scale for fabric and then smaller scale for gift wrap. We also offer 5 different types (basic, half-drop, half-brick, mirrored and centered) of repeats that let you use one simple element to create a fabulous design.: Find out all about repeat options in Spoonflower here.

In this example, we created a simple geometric shape and uploaded it to our website.

This is an example of the basic repeat, which will be the default repeat on the design when you first upload it to your Spoonflower account.

The half-drop repeat will place every other column of your design repeat 50% lower.

The half-brick repeat will place every other row of your design repeat 50% to the left.

The mirror repeat will place your image facing edge to edge in a reflective way.

You are also able to size your image as well. Now, when you first upload your image to Spoonflower, the DPI {resolution} will be automatically set to 150. Check out this link where we talk about design sizes.

Depending on your design resolution, you will be able to make your image Larger or Smaller. You can click the buttons to alter the size of your image, you can also enter a specific DPI for your image if you would like. See in this image how the DPI is set to 150.

Now, see how the design can change drastically when using the “Smaller” button.

You must save the layout on each individual product before moving to the next one. When you make all your changes for the design to be custom printed onto fabric, you will use the “Save this layout” button. Next click the Wallpaper tab and repeat these steps. Finally click the Gift Wrap tab and do the same. Remember that the settings you choose for fabric will not automatically be transferred to gift wrap and wallpaper. Take your time, go through the settings of each one and save, save, save!

Arrow Fabrics Aplenty — Plus A Prize From Adobe

October 26, 2012

Our
contest this week for arrow fabric has a special prize, presented in
partnership with Adobe. To celebrate the new seamless repeat tool in
Adobe® Illustrator® CS6 (check out the video on how it works if you missed it), the winner of this week's contest will win a
one-year membership to Adobe Creative Cloud™
as a prize. While it's too late to enter, it's not too late to vote for
your favorite arrow designs! We'll let you know who won next week.

The participants this week are:

1. Endless Op Art Arrows by
paintedstudio
2. 15 Minutes of Moxie by meduzy

3. 5 by going_home_to_roost
4. A Boy's Own Archery Set. by
rhondadesigns
5. A Little to the Left – Blues
in Linen by shelleymade
6. aarows by rar1013
7. Abstract Arrows by saenzdesign

8. Airport Arrows by candytree

9. akhaskett_waikiki by
ak_haskett
10. Akkerman_Arrows by
holly_akkerman

Enter for a chance to win a book: Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design

February 3, 2011

Frederick Chipkin, author of a useful how-to book called Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design, sent us a copy of his book to give away. We'll hold a drawing tomorrow (Friday) afternoon around 5pm EST to win the book.

ENTER TO WIN A COPY OF ADOBE PHOTOSHOP FOR TEXTILE DESIGN

Mr. Chipkin, who also offers classes in textile design, also gave us permission to post an excerpt from the book:

BASIC REPEATS

Creating a square repeat by using the Define Pattern function

Before you do the exercises in this chapter double check your preferences by going to Edit→ Preferences→ General and then make sure that Interpolation is set to Nearest Neighbor (preserve hard edges). Also check that anti-alias is not checked on any of the selection tools such as the Magic Wand tool or the Rectangular Marquee Tool. It's important to keep an eye on these settings so that your image doesn't blur when it is in RGB color mode.

This first repeat is used mainly for placing small uncomplicated designs into a square repeat. To start with, open up the design DOTS SIMPLE REPEAT from the REPEATS folder on the enclosed CD.

1. Choose the Rectangular Marquee tool from the toolbox.

2. Locate a dot in your design that you want to repeat.

3. Draw square box around it using the Marquee tool.

4. Click on Edit then drag down to Define pattern.

5. A dialog box will pop up.

6. Type in a name for your pattern and click OK.

7. Deselect the Marquee by clicking on Select then dragging down to Deselect.

8. Click on Edit then drag down to Fill.

9. The Fill dialog box will pop up.

10. Change the word that is next to the word Use to the word Pattern.

11. Change the Custom pattern (by clicking on the arrow next to it) to the pattern, which you have just defined.

12. Click OK. Your image window should now be filled with that pattern.

Save this pattern with a different name than the original. If the pattern doesn’t look right click on Edit and drag down to Undo Fill, and then try these steps again.

Creating a square repeat by using the Offset Filter

Creating a repeat using the Offset filter is the most versatile and commonly used method for creating a repeat in PhotoShop. It requires a lot of juggling between color modes, however once you get the hang of it, it’s rather quite easy.

To make things a little easier, in the following exercise you're going to be working with a design that has already been color reduced for you.

1. Start out by opening the design ROSE PRINT SQUARE REPEAT from the REPEATS folder on enclosed CD.

2. Change the color mode to RGB (Image→ Mode→ RGB Color).

3. Go to Filter→ Other→ Offset.

4. The Offset dialog box will pop up. Make sure that the Wrap around function has been selected and the Preview box is checked.

See the book for the rest of this technique.