Creating a seamless pattern of this image was easy as pie when I stopped at something relatively simple, but when you start adding nodes and changing parameters, you should keep an eye on how the art on the borders and in the corners starts to behave. To try it, I used a PNG with an image of a stuffed animal and a transparent background. The app takes care of the seamless repetition, showing you exactly how your node selection and parameter settings will influence the pattern and – very important – its boundaries.
With Patternodes, you connect the starting node on a blank canvas with others that organise the starter form and apply all kinds of effects to it and to the organised repeating pattern. The second one is an import node that lets you import photos or art that you created in another app. The first one is the basic one and offers you a selection of basic shapes, including the ellipse, square and line. But as Patternodes is node-based – you build a network of nodes that results in a pattern artwork – there are two nodes to get you started. Patternodes starts the same way as the other apps in a sense that it requires you to start with a form. That’s not too easy, to say the least, but Patternodes has found a simpler, more user-friendly way to do it.
Patternodes examples how to#
They all require you to start from a vector or bitmap image such as a drawing or photograph and then work out how to make it seamlessly repeating. Photoshop and Illustrator, as well as Affinity Designer and Photo, allow you to create patterns that you can use and reuse as backgrounds, desktop or real-world wallpaper, etc.
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