How to Make a Seamless Pattern in GIMP

How to make a seamlessly repeating pattern of your lineart drawings using GIMP. I'll show you how to fix the position of parts of the drawing, how to make a repeating unit and tile the image and how to overlap different drawings for the repeating pattern. I'm turning my Inktober drawings into patterns I'll use for coloring pages and envelopes and a calendar. And I might also put them up in my Redbubble shop.

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INSTRUCTIONS
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Draw line art drawings and scan them in at least 300 dpi resolution. Cleaned up the scanned pictures and adjust the levels.

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To fix the position of any elements, pull down the ruler and then select the drawing you want to move with the free select tool. Cut it out by pressing ctrl X and paste it back with ctrl V. Move it and turn the cutout into a new layer. When the drawings are on different layers, you can move them separately. When you're happy with the arrangement, merge all the layers down into one again. Crop the image, but leave some blank space in all the edges. That will turn into an empty space for more elements in the middle.

To make the repeating unit, go to layer - transform - offset and click on offset by x/2, y/2. Bring the final element in the middle.

The repeating unit is now finished. To see what it looks like when the pattern is repeated, go to filters - map - tile. Increase the size and click OK.

I will also post a video on how to make a calendar with Microsoft Word and GIMP so stay tuned for that.

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