Free Vector Repeat Patterns – Diagonal Stripes Set 1

Here’s a set of free repeat patterns. There’s six in total and they’re all diagonal stripes.

Each pattern is seamless and will tile perfectly on all sides. The download contains six Illustrator vector patterns (EPS files) that you can load into Adobe Illustrator or your favorite vector editing program. It also includes six 24 bit transparent PNGs that you can use “as is” or use for Photoshop patterns (Edit->Define Pattern).

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Using Repeat Patterns in Adobe Photoshop

This tutorial is going to show you how easy it is to fill custom shapes with repeating patterns in Adobe Photoshop. I’m using CS3 for this tutorial but it should work in any recent version.

You can have some real creative fun with Photoshop and repeat patterns. As with most things, there’s lots of different ways to use patterns in your own designs. For this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to take a repeat pattern, add it to the Photoshop pattern library and then use it to fill selections.

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Using Repeat Patterns in CSS – How to

Seamless patterns and CSS….easy when you know how.

This tutorial is aimed at CSS newbies and it’s going to show you how easy it is to add repeat patterns to your CSS based web designs. You don’t really need to know anything about HTML and CSS. I’ve included a zip file with a full example that you can take a look at. Also, here’s a live demo if you want to see what we’re aiming for.

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Free Vector Repeat Pattern – Gothic Mono Plus

Here’s another free vector repeat pattern in a gothic style

I had a couple of requests for a different version of the first free pattern so here it is. It’s a bit bigger (cos big is beautiful) and the colors are just black and white. As always, if you have any feedback about free patterns I’d love to hear it. Do you like them? How are you using them? What kind of free patterns would you like to see in the future?

Back to this pattern… It’s a seamless vector pattern that you can download for free. It’s fully editable so you can tweak it to fit with your designs. The download contains an EPS file that you can load into Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop (or whatever you use for editing vectors). I’ve also included a png in the download so you can just go ahead and use that if vectors are too scary :)

Here’s a sample of the repeat pattern:

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Free Vector Repeat Pattern – Retro Stylie

Here’s another free vector repeat pattern in a funky retro style.

If you like it be sure to leave a comment.

This is a free seamless vector pattern that you can download for nothing. It’s fully editable so you can tweak it to fit with your designs. The download contains an EPS file that you can load into Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop (or whatever you use for editing vectors) and a PNG thumbnail.

Here’s a sample of the repeat pattern:

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Free Vector Repeat Pattern – Gothic Mono

We’re proud to bring you our first freebie.

It’s a free high-quality vector pattern that you can download for nada. It’s seamless so it’ll tile on all sides. You can easily change the color scheme to fit your design. The download contains an Illustrator pattern (EPS file) that you can load into Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop (or whatever). It also contains a pixel version of the pattern as a PNG thumbnail.

Here’s a Pattern Sample:

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Go Patternhead

If you’re looking for Photoshop patterns or Illustrator patterns, why not take a look at the Patternhead shop. Your one stop shop for royalty free, vector and raster, seamless repeat patterns. Now there’s a catchy tagline!

All items are delivered digitally. When you purchase an item, you’ll receive an email with a download link. Click the link, enter the supplied user name and password and you’ll have instant access to the item. There are no delivery charges and you don’t have to wait for items. You can download your vector patterns instantly.

There’s a good selection of patterns available and we’ll add more over the next few months so be sure to bookmark the site and take another look soon.

Bye Shopify Blog, Hello WordPress

Changes are afoot!

Looking for the online store?

It now lives at shop.patternhead.com

Patternhead.com was running completely on the Shopify platform. It’s a great system for ecommerce but the features of the integrated blog are a bit limited (no trackbacks, pingbacks, no threaded comments, no links to commenter’s sites etc.) I decided to switch things around and use WordPress 2.7 for the main Patternhead site. Continue reading