Have you ever wanted to make your artwork into a repeat pattern so you could upload it to places like Spoonflower? Perhaps you wanted to make your own wallpaper or pretty birdcage liners. (Kidding ’bout that last one.)
I’ve been asked how to make a repeat in Photoshop so many times ~ so I fiiiinally got around to it!
This is the easiest method and is especially useful for artwork that has a solid background.
It makes use of the nifty “Offset” function in Photoshop.
And ~ repeat after me ~ ”Stay away from the edges!” (You’ll see when you watch it below.)
Let me know in the comments what you learned from this tutorial. Did any questions come up?
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Thanks!
~ Barbra
16 comments on “How to Make a Simple Block Repeat Pattern in Photoshop”
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Wow this is so much easier than the way I was doing it!! (adding guides at the vert/horiz halfway points and then cut/paste the quadrants–so time consuming) So very glad I found you from the Spoonflower FB page!!
Yay Rachael! Glad to be of help!
It was just what I needed, not being very good with Photoshop, but the audio was so low, I could hardly hear anything, even with the speakers on youtube and my laptop on max.
Ag, yeah, I know ~ working on getting a better mic situation. Sorry about that! I could maybe do a transcript, if that’d be beneficial. Thanks for stopping by, Catriona.
Found you through the Spoonflower blog… Thank you for this wonderful tutorial! I’ve made some fabrics at Spoonflower using parts of my photos and the mirror option, but have wanted to try using drawings and/or paintings for a long time. This method gives me the tools to do just that!
Yay!! Happy to help, Gemmifer :)
Great tutorial! I have a pattern-y idea now! I’ll share when it happens! :)
Thanks, Rae! Rock them patterns :)
Thanks for another fun and informational tutorial! I do have a question, but it’s not completely specific to this tutorial….I hope you don’t mind. I’m just wondering why a person would want to make a repeating pattern in Photoshop vs making one in Illustrator, as you have shown in another one of your tutorials. Is there any advantage to using one over the other?
Thanks Barbra!
Great question, Laurie! It really depends on what kind of artwork you are converting into a pattern. Photoshop methods are more for art that’s more painterly and can’t easily be replicated in Illustrator; such as this watercolory piece I did in the tutorial. Illustrator is more for vector/hardline artwork. Thanks for the question :)
OH MY GOSH! Thanks so much you have just saved me so much time it is not even funny!!!
I never knew that existed, Thankyou!
off to create a gazillion designs for spoonflower ;)
Most welcome, Wendy :)
Definitely an easy way to do it – yay! tfs
Thanks so much your video help me out ALOT!!!
thanks a millon for this tutorial, just what I was looking for! :-)
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