Hello everyone!
I was wondering if someone could help me out with an issue I am having?
I need to create a pattern in coreldraw with an odd shaped image (text or an image) and fit it seamlessly into an object that is also an odd size. For example the size of my object is 9.8" x 8" I want to take either text or another image and fit it into that object so that it can connect seamlessly from top to bottom and right to left.
Every time I try to do this a part of the image is cut off where it can't be and I do not know how to make it seamless.
I have samples but I can't attach images?
So basically, IS there a way to take an odd size image and use it in a pattern of an odd size shape and have it come out seamlessly? The image size does not need to be a particular size the size of the pattern shape has to stay the same.
The only thing I have found on this is that your image should be a perfect square fitting it into a pattern that is a perfect square. However I do not have that luxury.
Thank you so much for anyone's help on this.
I have attached samples:
Sample 1 with Sugar Skull: What the design looks like when I input the pattern. If the pattern was on a piece of paper and I touched the corners to the sides the pattern wouldn't line up, same thing if I touched from up and down.
Sample 2: Same issue but with lettering
Sample 3 with Sugar Skull : What I need the pattern to look like (clearly I adjusted the size so I could have it cut off in all the right places) If I folded the paper right to left it would work seamlessly as with up and down.
I'm not quite sure if I have completely understood your problem, but I will start and you can correct me if it does not produce the result that you need.
In the skull example, I would make the pattern tile from just one skull. That will ensure you get seamless tiling from it, because it can be repeated horizontally and vertically with no obvious break.
Now you can create any closed shape -- it could be a rectangle, ellipse or even a freehand shape.
Then the bit I'm not sure about ... if you want the result to be symmetrical you need to make the width of your object an exact odd multiple of your tile width -- my object was 77mm wide, so I get exactly 11 tiles. Alternatively you can use any size you want and adjust the x offset until you get symmetry, but this is much more fiddly.
For the Made by Cheri example ...
The procedure is exactly the same, except that your original tile design is the phrase
again just once on the page, but in this case you need to include some extra horizontal space so the space is kept after tiling. A page size of about 100x15mm will probably work for this. A column offset of about 15% will give you the progressive staggering you had in the image.
Hello and thank you for trying to help me out with this. From your response I do not think we are on the same page so let me try to be clearer and give a little more information to see if that can help.
I am a laser engraver, these designs will be lasered around hand made candle holders and therefore the pattern is circular and needs to match up. The candle holders are 9.8" long and 8" around there for the size of my box design can not be adjusted. Because the item being engraved is a circle the top of the page needs to blend perfectly with the bottom of the page, I can not have half a skull meeting up with a different part of the skull. I would also like it to match right and left to some extent but that is not as important as top to bottom.
I always start with a single skull because I can adjust the size in the pattern fill box like you also pointed out. I know how to pattern fill, offset and size adjust like I show in my examples. My problem is without doing crazy math to figure out exactly how big the skull needs to be to fit a particular amount of rows and have the pattern match up from the top of the page to the bottom is there a way Corel does that for you, like a fit to frame of some sort so the pattern looks like my last sugar skull example. As you can see from that last example if I touched the right side of the page to the left side they line up as well as if I touch the top side of the page to the bottom.
I am going to be doing different images and words so taking an hour to get an image just right is not cost effective for me and I am pretty sure there is an easier way to do this.
I hope this helps! Thank you!
KateScratch said:these designs will be lasered around hand made candle holders and therefore the pattern is circular
Yes, that makes perfect sense. I can now see exactly what you need.
If the circumference is 8" then an obvious example that would fit is 8 tiles each 1" wide. But any other submultiple of 8" would also work, so you have some flexibility to make the tiles larger or smaller.
The better news is that CorelDraw can do the calculations for you. Almost every numerical value in CorelDraw works like a calculator, so if you want to fit 9 tiles to an 8" circumference, then you can just type 8/9 in the tile width box ...
The tiles then exactly fit 9 wide to my 8" wide rectangle as soon as I press the OK button. Slight niggle is that it will immediately replace 9/8 with the calculated result of 0.889 ". But you can still adjust it if you need. Just change the width to 8/7 or 8/11 to see other sizes that will fit horizontally.
Vertically, you can do 9.8 / 9 which will exactly fit 9 tiles to 9.8" in the vertical direction. Or you can have more or less tiles in the vertical direction. It will stretch the same tile to make it fit, so you do not have to redesign the tile to the correct ratio. So, I think you can quite easily get a good result that exactly fits in the required space.
The word example is almost exactly the same, except that depending on size you may want only 3-5 tiles horizontally and maybe 15 vertically. An offset of about 15% should still work ... the offset changes the appearance, but not the circumference.