General - Repeat Patterns on Photoshop

Making a repeat pattern on photoshop

Simple:
One image, split and made into a repeat pattern in a grid.

Stage one: centred image

 Stage two: the image split vertically

 Stage three: the image then split again horizontally

Stage four: the image then tiled creates a repeat pattern

General - Idea Development

To reflect the two opposites simple and ornate, I am going to show this in how I construct the patterns. From a simple repeat pattern, to a more visually complicated pattern, however still using the floral elements I have used before.

General - Cath Kidston

After learning how to make a repeat pattern I looked at Cath Kidston to inspire my floral prints before I generated them. She is a great influence for both simple and ornate patterns, I love her work, and she's very current at the moment.

Being such a brilliant pattern artist she covers the range of simple to ornate:

From simply spots and stripes...

...to busy floral patterns

Looking at repeat patterns and floral designs in particular myself, Cath Kidston really showed me what kind of things can be created, and what they can be applied to. Cath Kidstons pattern work is applied to a whole range of products:

General - Repeat Patterns

For inspiration with my designs I looked into the work of William Morris, I've seen his work at his 'The Red House' as it is in my town at home, some of his patterns are so ornate and detailed!
After looking at his work I wanted to try and create my own repeat pattern, so I looked on the internet for a technique or tutorial and found this:
http://www.designsponge.com/2008/05/welcome-julia-and-how-to-make-a-repeat-pattern.html

Therefore, I tried out a rough pattern to get the technique and idea of how to do it.

So I tried a rough design first, not being too precious about it, which worked really well! The image needed to be taped together closer and the edges needed to be cleaned up when scanned in to make it neater as you can see the tiled image, but for a first try it was pretty good!

Therefore I tried it again, however making it more complicated and neater, making the join neater and cleaning up the edges of the scan before tiling it. I also tried a longer piece to see how that would affect the turn out.

By joining up the diagonal branch it made the pattern more complicated, and the original tiled image less obvious. 

I liked this technique and am thinking of developing it into my idea to get a greater sense of the words I am using, for example creating a more complicated pattern, still using the floral patterns and elements as before, and a simpler one, where the grid is perhaps subtler  

General - William Morris

I've always known about William Morris as 'the Red House' is in my town back home, therefore, having visited before I am familiar with his work, and looking at pattern design he is a very clear and obvious influence for me.

William Morris' work is so ornate in the amount of detail he gets into the patterns! Even those that are simpler in comparison are still incredibly elegant and detailed, making incredible work.

For the ornate end of this task I feel William Morris is a fabulous influence, his use of organic shapes and floral themes link really well with the kind of route I'm going down... however he isn't particularly good for the simple end!