Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Be aware that if you're using Brick or Hex layout (instead of Grid), changing the
offset or offset type (by row or column) can cause the Swatch Bounds to grow or
shrink in size. Artwork that was previously outside Swatch Bounds might now fall
within the pattern, and vice versa. In addition, when you create art in PEM, any
objects that aren't included in the pattern swatch will be deleted; if you wish to keep
any objects that are not included in the pattern, copy the objects to the clipboard
before exiting PEM, and paste them into a new file.
3 Adding new artwork.
After getting the first flowers placed, Reinhart started adding
more flowers, duplicating, transforming, and coloring them while inside PEM. She
emphasized depth by overlapping some flowers in front and in back of others, by
scaling, and by altering the artwork to show less detail as she moved it further to the
back of the stack. She intermingled a few butterflies and, at the very bottom, added a
light-colored rectangle with no stroke to conceal any gaps in the pattern and give it
an airy, organic appearance. She named the pattern in the Patterns panel and clicked
Done to save her pattern to the Swatches panel. Later, she would use Recolor Art-
work to create variations (see her lesson in the
Color Transitions
chapter for details
about how she did this).
3
The bottom of the stack of layers showing how Reinhart created
depth by incorporating more detail in upper
layers, with diminishing detail as she
moved further to the back of the stack
