Hi Elizabeth, I admire your work-it’s fantastic. I have a quick question: What color model should I use when designing a surface pattern? Is there an industry standard, like PANTONE, CMYK, or RGB? Thank you so much.
I wouldn't say there is an industry standard- no. It depends on the company and also the end product. Pape will be printed in CMYK, pantone is often used to match for various clients, but I usually design in RGBfor my own portfolio and then only change if a client requests something specific!
It may make a difference for your patterns so it's just an option/variable to try when you are working- you have to decide what looks best and makes the art look closest to what you want.
Thank you for making this tutorial 😊 I just emailed you about a client wanting a limited colour palette in photoshop and how I had no idea how to do it, then I found this video. Now I do! 😄
So helpful!!! Thank you so much. Just tried this on one of my designs and It definitely looks much better than just solid digital colors. Just suscribed!
Hi Elizabeth, that's a very helpful video. I'm wondering from this point how one would make the 9 colour separations for the design for the silk screens or rollers?
Well you can start with reducing down to 9 colors, after that there would need to be additional adjustments based on printers capabilities for detailed pixelated printing and other restrictions. Best of luck!
This is a video about surface pattern design. Putting it into repeat means making the art laid out in a way that it repeats end to end seamlessly so it can be used to be printed on fabric or wallpaper or anything else that has a repeating pattern on it.
Hi Elizabeth! I was wondering when you're creating collections for licensing, do you color index them before showing the collection to others? For instance, I'm creating some watercolor patterns right now. I don't know whether I should show my original work or how it looks when indexed.
Great Q! Honestly, I probably wouldn't take the time to reduce colors until it was sold/requested. It can be time consuming to get it looking good sometimes, and I'd hate for you to play around with it for a couple of hours and then the pattern doesn't go anywhere anyhow. Art directors who work with watercolor art can usually visualize what needs to be done to a design to make it printable for their products.
Hi Elizabeth, I admire your work-it’s fantastic. I have a quick question: What color model should I use when designing a surface pattern? Is there an industry standard, like PANTONE, CMYK, or RGB? Thank you so much.
I wouldn't say there is an industry standard- no. It depends on the company and also the end product. Pape will be printed in CMYK, pantone is often used to match for various clients, but I usually design in RGBfor my own portfolio and then only change if a client requests something specific!
Thank you Elizabeth! This tutorial is very useful!
Glad it was helpful!
Hi thank you for this awesome tutorial! I'm not clear about the point to change 75% to 50% when it doesn't look better with 50%.
It may make a difference for your patterns so it's just an option/variable to try when you are working- you have to decide what looks best and makes the art look closest to what you want.
@@ElizabethSilver Thank you for your reply! Do you have the video about using the pattern tool?
great video, using this method to create pixel art from a regular picture, very handy technique.
Totally, that's a great way to do that!
Thank you for making this tutorial 😊 I just emailed you about a client wanting a limited colour palette in photoshop and how I had no idea how to do it, then I found this video. Now I do! 😄
Happy to help!
You are a life saver
lol!
So helpful!!! Thank you so much. Just tried this on one of my designs and It definitely looks much better than just solid digital colors. Just suscribed!
You're so welcome! Thanks for subscribing!
Thanks Elizabeth this was great, and yes very helpful 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Hi Elizabeth, that's a very helpful video. I'm wondering from this point how one would make the 9 colour separations for the design for the silk screens or rollers?
Well you can start with reducing down to 9 colors, after that there would need to be additional adjustments based on printers capabilities for detailed pixelated printing and other restrictions. Best of luck!
Hi thanks for video. What does "put it in repeat" mean?
This is a video about surface pattern design. Putting it into repeat means making the art laid out in a way that it repeats end to end seamlessly so it can be used to be printed on fabric or wallpaper or anything else that has a repeating pattern on it.
how about we want to reduce it to a number above 256?
Hi Elizabeth! I was wondering when you're creating collections for licensing, do you color index them before showing the collection to others? For instance, I'm creating some watercolor patterns right now. I don't know whether I should show my original work or how it looks when indexed.
Great Q! Honestly, I probably wouldn't take the time to reduce colors until it was sold/requested. It can be time consuming to get it looking good sometimes, and I'd hate for you to play around with it for a couple of hours and then the pattern doesn't go anywhere anyhow. Art directors who work with watercolor art can usually visualize what needs to be done to a design to make it printable for their products.