How to use tiling tools
How the tool sets work in Textura for tiling & repeats
Textura tiling tools consist of the following:
Crop tool & submenu
The Crop tool is the primary tool for selecting a repeatable area within a fabric in Textura. Combined within the Crop tool are a subset (see below) of tools that allow you to further enhance cropping and repeat functions: (See the green circled i)
The submenu consists of:
- Drag (Left, right mouse on vertical crop box)
- Skew (Control button on keyboard, mouse drag boundary box vertical or horizontal)
- Pan (Left, right mouse on horizontal crop box)
- Zoom (Middle Mouse scroll - forward, IN - backward, OUT )
- Undo (Control Z )
- Redo (Control, Shift, Z)
Crop
Below is the crop menu active and the user has selected the repeatable area of the textile by using the pan tools (visualized by the light blue outline on the fabric)
Insert Guidelines
You may add guidelines - similar to the function in photoshop, to align your patterns vertically or horizontally. Simply drag your mouse from outside the crop area until it becomes a double white arrow area (see photo below) and drag it into your crop window until you reach the desired placement. (You can add multiple guides)
Skew / Taper
One of our resident experts, Julianne - has an excellent video reference on how to "skew" a textile that needs adjustment here.