How to Make a Repeating Pattern in GIMP and Upload It to Redbubble

How to make seamlessly repeating patterns of you art in GIMP and upload them to your Redbubble shop.

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INSTRUCTIONS
I'm starting with a painting I've scanned and cut out from its background. I'll make the basis of the pattern a square so there's enough room for a second painting. I'm making it transparent and then dragging the painting on top of the square and scaling it down. Merge the two layers.

Now to make the pattern repeat seamlessly, go to layer - transform - offset... and click on the offset by x/2 and y/2 button and click offset. Next we'll add the second painting in the middle. Open it as a new layer and place it where you want to. Merge that layer down and export as png image.

To see what the pattern looks like, go to filters - map - tile. Set the dimensions to something bigger than the square and the pattern will be filled out.

You can give it a background color by adding a new layer, filling it with the bucket tool and moving the layer under the pattern.

If you upload your design to Redbubble, you can use the first square for most of the products. To repeat the pattern, click edit, repeat and apply changes. For some products you can use the tiled image we made.

You can see that the pattern is formed of rows and columns of flowers. If you'd like them to repeat diagonally instead, we need to move some things around. Let's go back to the square image and add a grid. Go to image - configure grid and use it to divide the square into 4 parts. My dimensions were 1800 px so I set the grid to 900 px. Then go to view - show grid and again view - snap to grid. Now we'll change the positions of the squares on the left. Select one of them, cut it, paste it back and then move it out of the way. Do the same to the other one but place it correctly with the help of the grid. And move the first piece in its place. Add the second painting in the middle and export as a png image. To see what your pattern looks like, you need to manually copy and paste or duplicate these pieces and place them together.

And in Redbubble, choose the second repeat button to make your pattern.You can use this method to make patterns of your paintings, drawings and line art. You don't even have to remove the background, you can also crop the paintings into circles or other shapes and use them to make patterns.

If you want to make a repeating pattern by hand, check out Baylee Jae's video on that. And I'll also link another video on making patterns in #GIMP without removing the background first.

Baylee Jae - How to Create HAND-DRAWN Repeating PATTERNS:    • How to Create HAND-DRAWN Repeating PA...  
Kara Skye - How-To Create A Continuously Repeating Pattern on Computer - GIMP Tutorial:    • Видео  

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