How I Used AI (ChatGPT) To Create A Repeatable Seamless Fabric Pattern

To start out the method, I uploaded two footage to ChatGPT. To add footage to ChatGPT, you merely click on on this plus image on the left of the enter subject.

And within the dropdown choices, click on the primary possibility. You possibly can repeat this till you’ve got your entire footage uploaded.

Create a sample that I can use on material with the next parameters:

1. It must coordinate with the floral/chook material sample that I hooked up.

2. I actually just like the randomness of the striped material on the chair within the second image closest the “digital camera”. I just like the design on the seat again in addition to the seat on that chair.

3. The background must match Behr Polar Bear #F5F4EC

4. Along with the material material that I hooked up, it additionally must coordinate with the kitchen cupboards which are seen on the best facet of the second image, that are painted Behr Hallowed Hush #6D9090. The colour you employ doesn’t have to match that coloration completely, however it does have to coordinate so there’s a nod to the kitchen cupboards within the material.

5. The horizontal repeat of the material must be about 14 inches extensive.

6. The striped sample must be created in order that it may be tiled vertically to create a seamless sample.

7. I need lengthy, tender, watercolor strokes with out numerous coloration variation inside every stripe. I do like some coloration variation so long as it appears tender and like watercolor.

8. The general look I’m going for is that random width, freeform look of the material on the again of the chair within the second image.

9. Total, I just like the softer look of the material on the chair, so the colours don’t have to match the floral material material completely, however it must coordinate.

And about 60 second later, that is the sample it gave me. This could be one full repeat of the sample, so you’ll be able to see that it could tile seamlessly when repeated vertically, however it additionally minimize the pink stripe in half vertically in order that it’s seamless when tiled horizontally.

This was a fantastic begin, however it wasn’t precisely what I wished. However ChatGPT gave me crucial components — watercolor stripes, loads of colours to work with, and stripes that may tile seamlessly when repeated vertically.

And that final one is the important thing to creating a cloth or wallpaper sample. When creating material or wallpaper, your sample has to have the ability to tile each horizontally and vertically in order that it’s seamless. In case your sample received’t tile seamlessly, it should look low-cost and amateurish. For instance, right here’s what this watercolor material would appear like if the sample isn’t seamless. Whereas it’s not as pronounced on a freeform watercolor sample, you’ll be able to nonetheless see very particular horizontal strains throughout the material the place the sample stops and begins. And that’s precisely what you need to keep away from when creating a cloth or wallpaper sample.

So ChatGPT took care of crucial components for me. I may have continued making edits to the sample with extra prompts to tweak the design, and I’m certain I may have finally gotten to the ultimate end result I wished. However moderately than utilizing ChatGPT for the remainder, I made a decision to obtain that picture, open it up in my photograph modifying program (I take advantage of PaintShop Professional, however you can too use one thing like Adobe Photoshop for this) to proceed my edits.

For instance, if I wished to take away a stripe utterly, I used the choice software on the left that appears like a sq. with dotted strains round it…

And I chosen the striped that I wished to take away, just like the slim inexperienced and pink stripes subsequent to one another. The hot button is that you need to choose the complete stripes, from high to backside, with out leaving any remnants of these stripes exterior of the dotted strains exhibiting the realm you chose.

After which I merely clicked the delete button on my keyboard, and people stripes disappeared, abandoning a clear background.

After which I chosen the “flood fill” software on the left facet that appears like a paint bucket that’s tipped over with paint spilling out, and with that space nonetheless chosen (i.e., it nonetheless has the dotted strains round it)…

I used the “flood fill” to fill in that space with the stable background coloration.

After which I selected “picks” from the highest menu to unselect (“choose none”) that space in order that I may transfer on to a different stripe.

Anyway, I don’t need to flip this into a complete PaintShop Professional tutorial since that may be extremely tedious and boring, however the level is that I solely wanted ChatGPT to create that first picture for me since I didn’t have the flexibility to do seamless watercolor stripes. So as soon as it took care of that course of for me, I may simply use my photograph modifying software program to rearrange the stripes, widen stripes, take away stripes, and even darken/lighten the stripes and the background as wanted.

When you’ve by no means used a photograph modifying software program like PaintShop Professional or Photoshop, and it appears overly troublesome and intimidating to you, I can assure that yow will discover your reply to “How do I….?” for any query you may need on YouTube. There are in depth tutorials there for each of PaintShop Professional and Photoshop, and also you’ll get the fundamentals down very quickly. And naturally, in case you don’t need to use a photograph editor, you’ll be able to at all times do the entire course of from begin to end on ChatGPT with extra exact prompts (e.g., “take away all the slim stripes”, “make the purple stripe wider and about 25% lighter”, “swap the location of the extensive darkish inexperienced and extensive purple stripes”, and so forth.) and it will probably do the entire thing for you. I’m just a bit too unbiased and impatient for that, so I selected to be extra hands-on with the remainder of the method.

In order that’s how I used a mixture of ChatGPT and PaintShop Professional to create a seamless watercolor stripe sample that I may then add to Spoonflower to have a customized material printed for my eating room chairs. And in any case of my tweaking and modifying, that’s how I went from that unique ChatGPT watercolor stripe to the one I lastly uploaded to Spoonflower to have printed.

I’ve created loads of repeatable patterns up to now with out utilizing AI and solely utilizing PaintShop Professional. Once more, I solely wanted ChatGPT for this one as a result of PaintShop Professional is restricted in creating textures like fairly watercolors. However when making floral patterns, I don’t want AI.