Fill with texture

[Arctic Gorilla]

Hey all,

 

Is there a way I can fill my selected part of an image with a texture png I have downloaded.

I discovered I can set my Stroke to be the texture I have downloaded but not the actual fill.

 

I have created a vector brush using the pattern, but the results look awful, with the pattern criss crossing itself. 

I also inserted the pattern and used cmd+J to duplicate it. This gave better results than the brush but with alignment issues. I could have worked at it and achieved my desired results, but the pattern png is tiny, and i need to fill a very large space.

 

Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

[MEB]

Hi Arctic Gorilla,

Select you object go to the Gradient Tool and change the Type on the context toolbar to bitmap. A new dialog will open where you can select your PNG. Currently there's no way to set the scale of the image used to fill to 1:1.

[Arctic Gorilla]

Hey MEB,

Thanks, I'll work on increasing the detail and size of my background, then I should be good to go using that method.

[karim]

Hi MEB,

 

What's the logic behind this being tucked under the Gradient tool? (or, to put it another way, why is it called the Gradient tool and not the Fill tool?)

 

I never would have found it there without this forum...  But I'm glad I did... I was tearing out my hair looking for this feature :) Thanks for the help!