Celtic

V E C TO R PAC K

U S I N G T H E PAT T E R N B R U S H E S
A N D S WAT C H E S
Working with the pattern and swatches included in the Celtic Vector Pack is pretty straight
forward. The following brief document will go over the process of creating, loading and saving
the pattern and swatches so you can quickly and easily apply them to your strokes
and fills. The processes for pattern brushes and swatches are very similar, as you’ll see.

L O A D I N G , C R E A T I N G A N D S AV I N G
PAT T E R N B R U S H E S

LOADING PATTERN BRUSHES ( I L L U S T R AT O R C C U S E R S 01. Hamburger menu icon

O N LY )

Use the following method if the pattern brushes are not visible when you
have the patterns-and-swatches.ai file open:

With Adobe Illustrator open, bring up your Brushes Panel (if you do not
see the brushes panel navigate to Window > Brushes or press the F5 key).

01. Click on the small hamburger menu icon on the top right of the Brush
Panel.
02. Scroll down to and click on Open Brush Library then Other Library.
03. From here navigate to the celtic-pattern-brushes.ai that came as part
of your download.

That’s it, your series of 20 patterns are now available to apply to whatever
paths you wish.

04. Brush Option Settings

CREATING PATTERN BRUSHES

Open the patterns-and-swatches.ai file that came in your download.

01. Open the Brushes panel if you do not see the brushes panel navigate
to Window > Brushes or press the F5 key). set to auto slice
02. Using the selection tool, select one of the brush patterns and click
and drag it into the brushes panel and let go.
03. A New Brush dialogue box will open, click on Pattern Brush
04. Use the setting to the right (obviously you can mess around with them
to achieve different pattern effects.)
05. Repeat steps 02 - 04 for each of the patterns you wish to make.

tints and shades

SAVING PATTERN BRUSHES 02. Hamburger menu icon

Once you are happy with the number of pattern brushes you have it’s
simply a matter of saving them.

01. With your Brush Panel open, click on the brushes you wish to save
(press Ctrl + click on a pc or Cmd + click on a mac to select multiple
brushes)
02. Click the hamburger menu icon on the top right of the Brush Panel.
03. Scroll down to and click on Save Brush Library and give your brushes
a name and save them to your preferred location.

Your pattern brushes can now be loaded at any point (see the loading
pattern brushes section on page one)

L O A D I N G , C R E A T I N G A N D S AV I N G
S WAT C H E S

LOADING SWATCHES 01. Hamburger menu icon

With Adobe Illustrator open, bring up your Swatches Panel (if you do not
see the brushes panel navigate to Window > Swatches.

01. Click on the small hamburger menu icon on the top right of the
Swatches Panel.
02. Scroll down to and click on Open Swatch Library then Other Library.
03. From here navigate to the celtic-swatches.ai that came as part of your
download.

Your patterns are now available to apply to whatever shapes you wish.
There are 4 Pattern swatches included, each with 3 colour variants: Grey,
Black and White; and 3 sizes; large, medium and small.

CREATING SWATCHES
Open the patterns-and-swatches.ai file that came in your download.

01. Open the Swatches panel if you do not see the brushes panel navi-
gate to Window > Swatches.
02. Using the selection tool, select one of the swatch patterns and click
and drag it into the swatches panel and let go. Repeat this for each of
the patterns you wish to make.

SAVING PATTERN BRUSHES

Once you are happy with the number of pattern swatches you have it’s
simply a matter of saving them.

01. With your Swatches Panel open, click on the brushes you wish to save
(press Ctrl + click on a pc or Cmd + click on a mac to select multiple
brushes)
02. Click the hamburger menu icon on the top right of the Brush Panel.
03. Scroll down to and click on Save Swatch Library and give your
brushes a name and save them to your preferred location.

Your pattern swatches can now be loaded at any point (see the loading
swatches section on above)

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