My journey through seamless patterns has definitely been a learning experience. I’m so excite to share a little about what I have learned in this little series.
This next background I did get the image from The Graphics Fairy. The original image was from an 1895 hardware catalog:
I think that is just so cool. Not exactly the kind of door you could find at Walmart, eh? I love the design but no doubt a hand-drawn image is never a seamless pattern from the beginning. Jacob showed me how to straighten a picture, which was crucial for the side bars to be exactly up and down. I used the ruler tool to pick a point at the top of the picture and at the bottom of the picture that I wanted to be aligned, for instance the right side of one of the vertical bars in the image. Then Image>Image Rotation>Arbitrary will line up those points. I had to do a lot of hand editing on this one. The realignment left holes on either side of the pattern and the top didn’t match up well to the bottom but I added some extra bars and hand drew the bands with the pencil tool. I put a lot of time into it but it is probably my favorite background I’ve made, out of like the six or so I’ve made so far.
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