Software: Affinity Designer V2.4.0.2301 for iPad
Goal: Create a seamless repeat pattern
I am attempting to create a seamless repeat pattern using Affinity Designer V2 for the iPad. Below are the steps I’ve taken and the issue I’ve encountered.
I have hand-painted my pattern elements (strawberries - see attached photo). I scanned my artwork, isolated each individual strawberry, and removed the watercolor paper background in Affinity Photo V2 for iPad.
In Affinity Designer, I created a new document with 2 artboards.
Artboard 1: 3000x3000 px
Artboard 2: 6000x6000 px
DPI: 300
I created the Symbols — I used the rectangle tool to create a square on top of artboard 1, and made sure that it was same size as artboard 1 (3000x3000 px) and the same position on XY axis.
With the square selected, I opened the Symbol studio panel, toggled on “Sync Symbols”, and selected “Add Symbols from Selection”.
I then copied the Symbol and pasted 4 times into artboard 2. In artboard 2, I repositioned each Symbol to sit in each quadrant of the 6000px square.
X: 0, Y: 0
X: 3000, Y: 0
X: 0, Y: 3000
X: 3000, Y: 3000
I then added my raster strawberry pattern elements by copying them from a separate Affinity document and pasting and arranging them in the center of artboard 1.
(**This is where I encounter the issue**) I then attempted to add strawberry elements to the edges of my pattern design in artboard 1.
I moved a strawberry to an edge (NOT a corner)
With the strawberry element still selected, I created a duplicate
I repositioned the duplicate to the exact opposite side of artboard 1.
Example: Original strawberry’s position on the Y axis was 162.3 px. For the duplicate, I added 3000 px so that the duplicate was positioned at 3162.3 px on the Y axis.
I grouped the 2 duplicate pattern elements together in the Layer studio
ISSUE: The program is exhibiting odd behavior when I attempt to position edge pattern elements. In some cases, the edge pattern element won’t even sync from artboard 1 to the symbols of artboard 2. In other cases, they do sync, but the colors don’t match at the seams.
I have attached a photo and a screen recording. In the recording, as I move the 1st group of elements, you can see that the colors do not match up along the seams in artboard 2. As I move the 2nd group, you can see that the strawberry in the top-right quadrant of artboard 2 exhibits odd behavior (crosses the boundaries of the other Symbols), while the others do not. I would be happy to provide the file for further analysis, but need a private link to upload the file to.
Note: I suspected that my raster strawberry objects might be the problem, however, I was able to replicate the issue with a vector element.
Thank you in advance for your help!!!
RPReplay_Final1711029472.mov