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.