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Learn how to create seamless repeat patterns in Affinity Photo & Designer more quickly and efficiently with artist, designer, and teacher Tracey Capone.

This class teaches you how to take advantage of the many efficiency tools built in to Affinity Photo and the rest of the suite, even if you’re working in flat vectors.

Discover how to take the basic pattern process up a level and give yourself back time to create more patterns!

In this class, you will learn

  • How to save and link vector Assets, so that you can easily access them in any application, no exporting and importing necessary.

  • How to maintain the infinite scalability of your flat vectors in Affinity Photo, even flat vectors. You get the benefit of using Designer, and all of it’s vector tools and using Photo’s built in efficiency tools to complete the pattern making process in less time, without losing the infinite scalability of your vectors.

  • How to create reusable Pattern templates which save all user settings such as size, grids and guides, symbols, and more, and can be used in any Affinity app, both desktop and iPad.

  • The benefits of using StudioLink, in both the desktop and iPad apps, which will allow you to seamlessly jump between apps, with a single click.

  • How to use the Pattern Layer tools in Affinity Photo to sketch out, and preview, a seamless pattern before you build it, and use it to check for any issues before export.

  • About macros in Affinity Photo… what they are, and how to create, and use, them to automate the more manual aspects of the pattern process in Affinity, and make them more efficiently.

  • How to use Pattern Layer in Affinity Photo to quickly and easily scale your patterns to multiple sizes for Spoonflower and other sites. I'll also show you how to change the dpi of your pattern tile in Photo, for different sites, so that you don’t lose quality.

  • You'll learn a really handy way you can preview your seamless patterns in Affinity Designer, at any size, without leaving the app.

  • As a bonus, you'll learn how to use macros provided to quickly, and easily, test your half drop repeats in Photo... no manual duplication and tiling needed!

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome to Class!

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. Downloads for Class

    3. Before We Begin...

    1. Asset Creation & Linking

    1. Creating and Using Pattern Templates

    1. Using StudioLink to Bridge Apps

    2. StudioLink in Pattern Design

    1. Visualize Your Repeats with Pattern Layer

    1. What Are Macros?

    2. Creating Macros | Basic Repeat

    3. Adjusting Macros for Canvas Size

    4. Creating Macros | Half Drop

    5. Importing Macros on the iPad

About this course

  • $45.00
  • 19 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content

Bonus material

When you take the class, you will receive...

  • Seamless Pattern Macros

    All of the pattern macros (both basic and half drop repeats) we will be creating in class. These can be used in either the iPad or desktop app.

  • Half Drop Repeat Pattern Testing Macros

    You’ll also receive a bonus set of Half Drop Repeat Pattern Testing macros that help you quickly, and easily, take a single pattern swatch and tile it in to a half drop repeat.

Instructor(s)

Tracey Capone

Instructor & Founder of the Creator Collage

Hi there! I'm Tracey. I'm an illustrator, photographer and designer, located in the Chicagoland area. I've been a full time artist for over a decade, after leaving the corporate world behind in 2011. My work can be found online, and in select stores around the country.

I have been teaching on Skillshare since 2020, where I am proud to be a part of their Top Teacher community. I love teaching, and sharing knowledge and am bringing my same quality classes and teaching style here to the Creator Collage.

In my daily work, I use both iPad and desktop apps from the Affinity Suite, Adobe, and Procreate and bring years of experience in all of the applications.

I believe in learning as much as possible about as many applications as possible; not locking in to one. Doing so not only opens you up to more opportunities, it allows you to "break the rules," and make the applications work the way you need them to.

If you have any questions about my classes, please feel free to let me know in the Discussion section of your class, or by emailing me at [email protected].

I look forward to seeing you in class!