Hello,
Today, let’s create a Pattern and add it to the pattern’s docker.
To make this tutorial worthwhile, we’ll design a pattern that can be used to create a gift-wrapping paper for young children.
This tutorial may come in handy at this time of the year.
Maybe, create your own Christmas pattern and print it at home. This could be a lot of fun.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:20 Designing a pattern for the Gift Wrapping paper
03:21 Using the Wrap-Around Mode
04:01 Saving the pattern (Adding it to the pattern’s docker)
06:06 Testing the pattern (How to correct the angle, if necessary)
07:41 Editing the pattern (Changing its scale)
08:42 Saving the pattern to send it to a professional printer (saving it as a TIFF image)
10:25 Saving the pattern as a PDF
11:13 Conclusion
Thanks for watching. Have a wonderful weekend or week.
https://youtu.be/Y3QZjqBQ5PY
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Hi @CelticCoco and thank you for that video tutorial 
and thank you for reminding me about Christmas presents 
You suggest using Adobe Acrobat to produce a .pdf file.
Inkscape (free and FOSS) can Export as .pdf too.
I’m not sure how significant the initial production of a .tif file is though because Inkscape doesn’t import .tif files as far as I can tell. It’s ok with a .png image.
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Hi Ahab. This is why I said in my disclaimer that it is ONE WAY of doing it. There are so many ways we can save the pattern. I just hope this is the one that will be most helpful, as most people share via emails, pictures saved as PDF. Or at least, this has been my experience, sharing files with printing companies.
Have a great evening. Cheers.
Thanks a lot, I didn’t know that in Krita it was possible to directly save the pattern as a pat file.
I usually make my patterns in Inkscape, export as a png at twice the size…and in Gimp I reduce it by 50% and export as a pat file. If Inkscape exported directly as pat, I wouldn’t even need to do this step.
I didn’t understand the reason for exporting as tiff or pdf. The pat file can be read as a pattern in Gimp, Krita and (I believe) in Photoshop, just put the file in the “patterns” folder. I think even a good quality png file would do.
Hello, Guerreiro64. The saving as Tiff was intended for people who need to send a pdf file to printers. Some printers only accept PDF files. Don’t know why… Never dared to ask. Since we cannot save our images directly as PDF in Krita, saving them as Tiff or PNG first will help people who do not have photoshop to get it directly to adobe acrobat and save the image as a PDF. As said in the disclaimer in the video… it was ONE option among many others out there. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I greatly appreciate it. I learn a lot in this forum, thanks to comments and feedback. Have a wonderful day.
Thank you, now I understand.
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