Patterns!

Today I'll be making the diamond pattern that will be used in my book cover! I'll be making it in Photoshop as it is very simple to do, compared to making it traditionally. I made a new 5cm x 6cm image, divided it up into quarters and used the pen tool to draw the basic diamond for my pattern. I made 2 diamonds, 1 orange, and 1 blue.


The texture was made using my own custom made photoshop brushes - more on those another day. This diamond was too short, so I made it a bit longer. I placed my 2 different coloured diamonds into a new image, duplicated them to create my pattern and arranged them like so:


Now, all I have to do is make the white background slightly off, and give it a bit of texture to give it an aged look. I also changed the blue colour slightly.



Now to test it out!! I defined the whole image as a pattern, made a big new image and filled it out. The finished pattern is a bit bright still, so I played around with the hue and saturation and made a more faded version... but, still not 100% happy with the result so I will play with with it a bit more until I get something that is suitable.



And that's the diamond pattern for my book cover. Thanks for reading! :)