Adobe Illustrator CS6 Digital Classroom by AGI Creative Team

Author:AGI Creative Team
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Published: 2012-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

Unlock the background layer.

4 Make sure the Draw Behind button (at the bottom of the Tools panel) is selected, then select the Rectangle tool and draw a rectangle that fills the entire artboard, from edge to edge. If necessary, use the Selection tool to resize this rectangle.

5 When the rectangle is completed, make sure that Fill is forward (in the Tools panel) and then click on the new pattern swatch you created. The pattern is applied to the rectangle’s fill.

Create a rectangle behind the existing shape.

Fill with your pattern.

6 Choose File > Save to save this file. Keep it open for the next part of this lesson.

Editing a pattern fill

There are many ways that you can edit a pattern. In this next part of the lesson, you will change the size and rotation of the pattern.

1 Select the large rectangle shape that has the pattern fill, and then double-click on the Scale tool () in the Tools panel. The Scale dialog box appears.

2 Change the Uniform scale to 50%, uncheck Transform Objects, and check Preview. By unchecking Objects you scale only the pattern, not the shape that contains the pattern.

Note that you can pick a more appropriate value as there was not a specific size requested for the original pattern shapes. Click OK.

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