I'm not that good at this yet, but I thought some of you might like this mini tut, If you have a better way please share. Ok here is a mini tut for making seamless tiles in Illustrator Cs 4 Ha ha ha, I was so dog tired when I made this. It's horrible and slightly entertaining, but mostly useless enjoy watching my brain fry before your very eyes. zzzzzzzzz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDmreDWTFvE You will need -New Doc 400x400px or something square -The blob brush tool (Shift+b) -Isolation Mode (double click on your path) -Group (command+g) & ungroup (shift+command+g) -Graphic styles Additive library.(found with the lower left sub menu) We need Live reflect X and live reflect Y Note: use (Option+click to add graphic style) when the time is right. Ok there are two ways I know of to make patterns in Illustrator. One is to simply drop any doodle in the swatches panel. You can then select it as a pattern fill. This is fast, but lacks control. Thanks to Sunday for this extra info: You can then drag the doodle out of the swatches to get the original and edit it, then when you are ready alt or option drop in over the previous pattern fill and it will update, neato. My way. 1. Make a square 400x400px with no fill and a black stroke. This is a guide only so lock it. (command + Number 2) To unlock later use (option and command together + Number 2) 2. Ok make a stroke with the blob brush. Select it (v) 3. Option click the Live reflect X graphic style twice do the same with the Live reflect Y graphic style. You will now have a grid of instances (non editable copies) -or are they muah ha ha. 4. Now the magic part. (v) to select & Double click it to enter isolation mode. (shift+b) for blob brush. Now when you draw near the parent object, the instances will all be updated on the fly. Tweak and doodle your hearts out people. To make it all clean Hold the option key with your eraser tool, this will give you a rectangular deal you can use to get a nice clean edge across the whole doodle. Do that to the sides so it lines up all nice, Don't trim to much off, try and keep it more or less in the original guide square. To remove the graphic styles just ungroup the parent object. You will then see a list of Transform fx in the appearance panel, you can just dump the instances and keep your file all nice and small for later. Cheers. <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3485/3852677950_bbcacf8664.jpg" /> 2009-08-31T20:55:03-04:00 14 2009-08-24T09:44:13-04:00 true 0 68721 false false 42681 506 1 2009-11-21T00:08:38-05:00 1247 the easy way by dragging the *doodle* into the swatch board if you then drag the swatch back onto the artboard edit as you so wish then the Alt drag the edited *doodle* back onto the swatch board then drop it onto the old swatch will update all objects using that particular swatch pattern not sure if you class this as an easier way but it's another option 68721 Post 2009-08-24T10:04:12-04:00 2144831 33601 2009-08-24T10:08:27-04:00 Oh cool good to know, thanks for sharing that. 68721 Post 2009-08-24T10:06:36-04:00 2144861 506 2009-08-24T10:06:36-04:00 if you want to edit that into your tute thing probly describe it better than i did, would be handy for everyone :) 68721 Post 2009-08-24T10:09:47-04:00 2144881 33601 2009-08-24T10:09:47-04:00 I'm doing a mini video deal now, but I fucked it up a bit. Oh well I'm still learning too. Maybe someone can get some use out of this. 68721 Post 2009-08-24T10:19:21-04:00 2145021 506 2009-08-24T10:19:21-04:00 video sounds good, if you would make a tute on halftones in illustrator i would be forever grateful =D 68721 Post 2009-08-24T10:28:34-04:00 2145151 33601 2009-08-24T10:28:34-04:00 I don't know how to do halftones in Illustrator, I have seen people just place a dot pattern on top but there must be a better way. 68721 Post 2009-08-24T10:44:23-04:00 2145421 506 2009-08-24T10:44:23-04:00 when we gonnna colab again quaker? I like your artwork. 68721 Post 2009-08-24T11:30:08-04:00 2146161 6901 2009-08-24T11:30:08-04:00 Video is up. Worst tutorial ever. ha ha ha. Hay Matt anytime dude. quakerninja@hotmail.com 68721 Post 2009-08-24T12:01:00-04:00 2146591 506 2009-08-24T12:01:00-04:00 <blockquote><cite>quakerninja said:</cite> I don't know how to do halftones in Illustrator, I have seen people just place a dot pattern on top but there must be a better way.</blockquote> yehhhhhh, illustrators all i use, and id love to start using halftones! helppppp 68721 Post 2009-08-24T12:02:41-04:00 2146641 11226 2009-08-24T12:02:41-04:00 Ok so one of the few way i know how to do halftones is after placing the image you select imbed then you convert it to grayscale then using the effect > pixelate > halftone, you then live trace the halftone patter then just edit from there or alternately make up a swatch of small dots ( there are some dot patterns built in but they seemed way too large for my needs, although you can edit them i'm sure) these are just round about ways, probly not the best 68721 Post 2009-08-24T12:15:42-04:00 2146861 33601 2009-08-24T12:15:42-04:00 Haven't tried this yet, But I found a halftone tut that looks promising. <a href="http://vectips.com/tutorials/creating-halftone-effects/">Hope this does the trick.</a> 68721 Post 2009-08-24T12:22:56-04:00 2147081 506 2009-08-24T12:22:56-04:00 http://www.layersmagazine.com/halftone-dots.html this involves a little bit of work but it's really easy to work with once it's done 68721 Post 2009-08-30T12:34:43-04:00 2241021 33601 2009-08-30T12:34:43-04:00 On my last note if instead of reducing all the scales manually if you just make the largest circle you want and the smallest circle you want and use the blend tool you can do it in about 20 seconds. and with the blend tool you can specify the number of steps, very handy 68721 Post 2009-08-30T13:26:19-04:00 2241531 33601 2009-08-30T13:26:19-04:00 exactly what Ive been looking for... thanks man! 68721 Post 2009-08-31T20:55:03-04:00 2266141 42681 2009-08-31T20:55:03-04:00