Make Repeat Tile from a Pattern Fill Swatch in Illustrator - Upload to Spoonflower - no lines!!

Exporting pattern designs from Illustrator to Spoonflower can sometimes leave you with lines in your repeat. Here’s my method for expanding pattern fill swatches to make a single tile of my pattern that I can export to Spoonflower without worry. I like to use stacked fills in the Appearance panel to create my different colorways, and then I expand those fills, here's how: 0:00 Introduction 1:00 Drag the pattern fill away from the Swatches panel to expand 2:00 Ungroup, and select the bounding shape to add the background color 2:50 Make an artboard from a copy of the bounding shape 3:30 Make the solid background shape slightly larger than the artboard 4:00 Export using Save for Web at 150 ppi use a calculator to do the math 6:11 Looking at the pattern in Photoshop - View - Pattern Preview, to show the difference when you add the extra margin of background, so you don't see white lines or soft pixels 7:00 The pattern tile in Spoonflower In this quick tutorial, I talk about 150 ppi resolution, using Save for Web, expanding vector art, and other topics for pattern designers. Want to learn Illustrator and CC? Join my learning community! Courses, Zoom calls, and more: https://www.lauracoylecreative.com/le... Share this video:    • Make Repeat Tile from a Pattern Fill Swatc...   SUBSCRIBE! ♥️    / lauracoyle   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ✏️LINKS Find out about my courses and 1:1 Illustrator coaching and training: https://www.lauracoylecreative.com Newsletter Sign Up http://eepurl.com/gJNbQn 🏝FOLLOW & CONNECT   / lauracoylecreative     / lauracoylecreative   #adobeillustrator #illustratortutorial #patterns #surfacedesign⁠ #spoonflower #seamlessrepeat #export #patternexport #nolines All content by Laura Coyle