patterns – The Graphic Mac http://www.thegraphicmac.com Apple, Adobe, Graphic Design, Resources Wed, 28 Nov 2018 15:45:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.thegraphicmac.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32 patterns – The Graphic Mac http://www.thegraphicmac.com 32 32 30361562 Free distressed halftone pattern vectors http://www.thegraphicmac.com/free-distressed-halftone-pattern-vectors/ Thu, 01 Jun 2017 16:00:07 +0000 http://www.thegraphicmac.com/?p=12442 This free set of distressed halftone patterns for Adobe Illustrator contains 10 seamless vector swatches that can be applied as fills to add retro comic book style print effects to your illustrations. There’s a range of dot pattern densities so you can effectively shade your designs by using the different pattern fills across your artwork. Unlike your typical halftone pattern with clean, perfectly formed circles, these patterns have a distressed style to give your designs that grungy rock poster vibe.

Distressed halftone vector patterns

Thanks to SpoonGraphics for providing these awesome distressed halftone vector patterns.

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Exclusive: Free 3D white vector patterns http://www.thegraphicmac.com/exclusive-free-3d-white-vector-patterns/ Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:00:18 +0000 http://www.thegraphicmac.com/?p=12116
Vecteezy has offered-up a beautiful pack of nine 3D abstract patterns in vector art format, exclusively for GraphicMac readers. These all-white patterns can be tiled to fill a large background, and are fully editable.

3D White Abstract Vector Patterns

Each file in the pack comes with 9 separate files in AI, EPS, PNG, SVG and PSD format (including a Photoshop .pat file so you can import the patterns). You can download the 3D White Abstract Patterns here.

Be sure to check out all the other awesome vector art files available at Vecteezy. They offer tons of great free and premium vector art.

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Free dark Photoshop patterns http://www.thegraphicmac.com/free-dark-photoshop-patterns/ Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:30:33 +0000 http://www.thegraphicmac.com/?p=11293 Subtle Dark Patterns

Some really nice dark seamless patterns for use in Photoshop. Click the image for a closer view of the fabric pattern. Also included are wood, suede, and concrete.

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Free subtle patterns for your web designs http://www.thegraphicmac.com/free-subtle-patterns-for-your-web-designs/ Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:00:51 +0000 http://www.thegraphicmac.com/?p=10740 Subtle patterns

SubtlePatterns offers nearly 400 tillable patterns for your web designs. These patterns, as the name implies, are subtle, clean and will work with virtually any design style. You can download them for free, or use the $12 Photoshop plug-in which puts them right into your workflow.

The cool thing about this site is that you can preview each pattern as a page background simply by hovering over each pattern and clicking the preview button.

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Create vector-based halftone and raster patterns with VectorRaster http://www.thegraphicmac.com/create-vector-based-halftone-and-raster-patterns-with-vectorraster/ Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:00:54 +0000 http://www.thegraphicmac.com/?p=8069 VectorRaster

Vectoraster is a Mac OS X graphics utility for creating vector-based raster patterns and halftones based on bitmap images, an effect that has been popular in illustration and design the last couple of years, but is quite tricky to achieve without the proper tools.

The raster patterns and point shapes can be freely configured to produce many different styles. The resulting rasters can then either be exported as vectors to EPS or PDF files, as images to JPEG, PNG or TIFF, or simply copied into most graphics software.

VectorRaster is $29 ($12 upgrade from previous versions) and a demo is available for download.

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Free textures: Seamless denim textures http://www.thegraphicmac.com/free-textures-seamless-denim-textures/ Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:30:25 +0000 http://www.thegraphicmac.com/?p=7783
Seamless denim textures
Click to download high-quality seamless denim textures

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50 Free plaid-pattern swatches for Illustrator http://www.thegraphicmac.com/50-free-plaid-pattern-swatches-illustrator/ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:18:42 +0000 http://www.thegraphicmac.com/wordpress/?p=1416 ColorBurned is offering 50 plaid-patterned swatches for Adobe Illustrator users, free to download. Plaid patterns can have countless uses for fashion design or textiles, graphic or web design, package design and more. What makes this set so great is that each seamless vector pattern has been converted to a swatch. Swatches are great because of the flexibility that they provide. You can perform a number of transformations on them including scale and rotate without affecting the shape of the object they are applied to. A brief tutorial on how to install swatches into Adobe Illustrator is included. Scroll down below all the preview images for the download link.

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