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How to easily change colour groups to Pantone colours in Illustrator [video] | Pitter Pattern

How to change colour groups to Pantone colours in Illustrator [video]

12 Comments 27/09/2017

At the end of last year, I made a few video tutorials for my Pattern Kick customers, explaining some useful tips & tricks to help them make the most of their pattern files. Today I’m sharing one of them with you: How to easily change colour groups to Pantone colours in Illustrator.

This video tutorial will show you, as described in the title, how to convert Illustrator colour groups in your Swatches panel, to Pantone colours. A very useful trick for when you have some artwork ready to send to the printers but didn’t work with Pantone colours from the beginning.

How to recolour patterns automatically in Illustrator [video] | Pitter Pattern

How to recolour patterns super easily in Illustrator [video]

1 03/05/2017

This video tutorial will show you how to change the colours of your Illustrator’s patterns and/or artwork with Illustrator’s own ‘Recolor Artwork’ feature. It’s so fast and easy, it makes tedious work a breeze! If you haven’t used it yet, you’ll soon be wondering how you ever managed without it…

How to easily add texture to your Illustrator designs [video]

8 Comments 07/03/2017

As promised in my last post, I have created a video tutorial on how to add texture to your vector designs in Illustrator by using bitmap images. This technique is very useful and can produce some gorgeous and interesting results.

If you downloaded the free texture images from last post you can use those to follow along. If you haven’t downloaded them but want to, here is the link: 17 free textures that can help your designs kick ass. You can also, of course, use your own images!

17 free textures that can help your designs kick ass

14 Comments 20/02/2017

Are you a little bit obsessed with textures and patterns? Are you always the one pointing out ‘that cool pattern there’ or ‘this pretty texture here’? I know I am, and if you’re here in the Pitter Pattern blog I’m guessing you are too.

I went on holiday to Colombia (my native country) last summer and while I was there I took many photos of gorgeous surfaces in the wild, and I thought I could share some of them with you… So in this blog post you’re getting 17 free textures that you can use to enrich your surface pattern designs!

Illustrator classes by Laura Coyle

0 07/12/2015

I believe that one of the most important things as a designer is to keep honing your skills for as long as you’re at it. No way around it. If you want to stay in the race and have a chance against competitors you have to constantly get better at what you do, otherwise you’re going to be left behind, and that’s not where we want to be, is it?