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CHRISTIAN NOLD

This is a quick video about saving and printing your pattern. Here’s a pattern I’ve made. To save it, I press the S key, or I do a right mouse button, Save Image As, and save it onto my computer like this. To print it, I need to go and find that image on my hard drive. This is the latest one. So, I open up like this, and to print it I need to go to File, Print.

And then this print dialogue box pops up. This will look different depending if you’re on a Macintosh or on a Windows machine and also on your printer. This is a colour printer, so the preview is in colour. If you select a black-and-white printer, the preview is in black and white, of course. But also some of these options will look different depending on the printer. I’m just going to go back to this one.

OK. What’s important to look at are some of these options around scale. Scale, Scale to Fit, Print Entire Image and Fill Entire Paper. Fill Entire Paper looks good, but actually, some of your pattern will be lost if you use that. So, I recommend using Print Entire Image or something similar like that on your computer. What you’re trying to do is make sure your square pattern is printed like this, and then you press Print simply to print it out.

You’ll notice when this is printed that you’ll have some of this white area which you need to cut off in order to trim down your pattern. But that’s fine. You can trim it off and then you can stick your patterns together to make a larger wallpaper area.