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9 Edit the corner tile so that its artwork lines up vertically and horizontally with the tiles
next to it. Select and delete any portions of the tile that you do not want in the corner and
edit the remaining art to create the final outer corner tile.
Unneeded elements selected (left) and deleted; Final outer corner tile (right).
10 Select all of the tile including the bounding box.
11 Save the new pattern following the procedure in
defining patterns" on page
12 Double-click the new pattern swatch to bring up the Swatch Options dialog box,
name the tile as a variation of the original (for example, use the suffix .outer), and click OK.
To create an inner corner tile:
Do one of the following:
If the side tile for the brush pattern is horizontally symmetric (that is, if it looks the same
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when flipped top to bottom), you can use the same tile for the inner corner tile as for
the outer corner tile.
If the side tile for the brush pattern is not horizontally symmetric, follow the same steps
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as to create symmetrical corner tiles from a side tile, but skip step 5 (rotating the tile by
180 degrees).
Modifying patterns
You can modify a pattern by editing the artwork and then replacing the old pattern in the
Swatches palette with the new artwork. If you replace an old pattern with a new pattern,
any new and existing objects painted with that pattern are painted with the new
definition rather than with the old definition.
To modify an existing pattern:
1 Make sure that nothing is selected in your artwork.
2 Choose Windows > Swatches, and select the pattern swatch you want to modify.
3 Drag the pattern swatch onto your artwork.
4 Select artwork in the pattern tile, and edit the tile. (To do this, use the direct-selection
tool or group-selection tool, or ungroup the pattern.)
5 Select the pattern tile.
6 Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) the modified pattern on top of the old
pattern swatch in the Swatches palette. The pattern is replaced in the Swatches palette
and is updated in the current file.
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"Constructing simple patterns and
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