![]() In Illustrator you can use image trace to do this. You can successfully reduce the colours in both Photoshop and Illustrator although the results will be a little different. For example, if you created a watercolour design which naturally produces hundreds of colours, and you may only be able to use a much smaller number of colours. There are times where you will need to reduce the colours within your design to a set number. Keep in mind though, the higher the dpi setting you scan in your designs, the larger your file will be. If you create your artwork at the size or larger than you intend to use it then 300 dpi is usually fine. If you do need to enlarge your motifs, then you will need to scan your design in at a higher dpi setting. The other thing I recommend is creating your design motifs at the size or larger than you intend to use them so that you don’t run into that issue of having your design pixelated. If you created them separate flowers then you’d have the flexibility to use them however you liked within Photoshop. For example, if you had two flowers and they were overlapping when you drew them by hand if you wanted to separate them in the computer, you’d have one whole flower and then for your second flower you’d only have part of it so you’d either have to redraw the rest of the flower or you would have to use the two flowers together. I would also recommend creating your design on white paper to make it really easy to remove the background.Ĭreating your motifs or design elements separately will give you much greater flexibility for when you start creating your pattern repeats. The first is that I would recommend that if you are creating design elements that you want to bring into Photoshop to put it in repeat, I would try and create each of the elements separately so they’re like islands. So there are a couple of key things that you need to think about if you are using Photoshop to create your designs. When using Photoshop you need to remember that it is a pixel based program so that means your artwork will become pixelated if you were to enlarge it too much. Illustrator is a great program especially if you like vector looking designs rather than designs with lots of hand rendered qualities to it. It’s also slightly easier to change colours within Illustrator although if you create your artwork in the right way in Photoshop it’s easy to change colours in there also. Having said that, illustrator has some amazing benefits and one of them is that as your designs are vector based you can enlarge them to any size you like without losing quality. You may have a client that does prefer for you to create your designs in one program over the other and that’s something that you can ask before you start designing but if they don’t have a preference then I would recommend picking the program that best suits the artwork you create. Now I think there’s a misconception that nobody buys Photoshop files but that’s simply not true. So my advice is that if you’re creating hand rendered and you’re using lots of textures and you want to keep the beautiful hand drawn nature, then I would generally create the pattern repeat in Photoshop. If you want to create a more realistic watercolour look then I’d recommend creating your designs in Photoshop. So if you’re creating beautiful watercolour designs, then if you take it into illustrator and vectorize it, you’ve really going to completely change the look and feel and you’ll lose that beautiful watercolour feel that you’ve created. ![]() And I know when you’re starting out that that is a huge undertaking so I would just pick one to begin with and the way I would choose which program to start with is by choosing the program that best suits the sort of artwork that you create. Now the first thing I would say is that ultimately I would recommend learning both programs. ![]() So I wanted to talk a little bit about the pros and cons of using Photoshop and Illustrator and what my advice is when picking which program to use. This means that they will usually vectorize their artwork which can result in the look and feel of their design being changed. One of the things I’ve noticed is that there is a common misconception that people feel that in order to create successful designs that they have to use Illustrator. So the big question is… Should you use Illustrator or Photoshop for your designs? The two industry standard programs for creating pattern designs are Illustrator and Photoshop. ![]()
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