How to use Text to Pattern Ai in Illustrator

Hi everyone. In this video we're gonna use Text to Vector  to make patterns like these. Okay, we're gonna enter into some props, okay? We're gonna look at the pros  and cons, the things that it's good at,  the tricks to kind of make it work. Plus, at the end I'll show you some more kind of tips  and tricks for using any of this sort  of artificial intelligence in Illustrator. There's credits that you need to look out for, variations  to tidy up, but let's jump in and start making patterns.

Alright, to get started, go to your exercise files  and open up the text to Vector O2. Working on the second one. Okay. And just make sure under window  and down the bottom here, open up the text to vector panel. Okay? And we're gonna be looking at this patent option here.

Works differently than the other three. Okay, so patent has its own special abilities. Um, we're gonna select the shirt down the bottom here. Okay? So just click at once and we're gonna start with,  it's really good at doing especially organic  and kind of randomized abstract stuff. It's a little less good at doing kind  of really geometric patterns.

Um, so let's go floral. You don't need to write pattern, so I'm just gonna type in  floral, uh, and see how it goes. And there you go. We've got some floral patterns. It's pretty bananas. Good.

Oh, I do do like it. So great for flowers. What you'll find is  that it totally ignores the background color. So whatever color is in here originally,  it just kind of starts again. I'll show you how to specifically pick colors in a second. Um, I just wanna show you some of the butts  that it gets not as good.

So let's look at, I was experimenting with like her andone  and like hounds tooth. Kind of like a, a really typical fabric pattern. It knows what it's meant to do,  but it ends up with suboptimal results at the moment. You give it a try. There you go. This is kind of the thing but not quite the thing.

What it's really good at as well is being very generic. So I can say gardening. Okay, so type in gardening. Bam, mine's done. Uh, we are jump cutting in this video  so if yours is taking longer it does take longer. Uh, Jason's jump cutting it for us.

Thanks Jason. Um, you can see here  'cause I just typed in gardening as a general kind of theme. It gave us cool gardening stuff. Okay, it's brilliant. Um, it does get lost sometimes. Like I was like, oh, I'll put in pajamas.

You can see I was looking for like pajama style stuff,  but I actually just got a collection  of pajamas you can put in groups of things. So I can say I would like a fox with a flame  with a, what else do I want? Fox flame bottle. Okay. Kind of from the illustrator essential scores. That was one of the brands where I was working on at least.

Okay. And you don't have to put commas in. Can you just put in groups of words  and you can see I've got a fox,  I've got a bottle and I've got some flames. Oh, it's very cool. Uh, there you go. Actually let's do a test together.

I didn't think you needed commas,  but let's add them to see whether it  breaks it up a little bit better. I'm not sure why it'd beach ball in there. There you go. In this case it actually did a lot better by kind  of separating them and not kind  of maybe thinking it's one whole sentence or one word. There we go. There's always like the third one seems  to be a lot more random than the first  two, but it's so good.

I really love it. One thing you are gonna wanna do is  to be able to control the colors. Okay? So this is what this little option is here. Okay? Color controls, okay, if I click on this,  there are some basic presets.

So let's go. Let's go for uh, pastille. Okay. And that's all I'm gonna change and hit generate again. There you go. So you can influence it in a kind  of a generic color way.

Ooh, I like that one. Also though, you can go through  and actually specify colors. Now I've got some colors over here that I want to use. I can go to specify colors. They need to be in your swatches panel at the moment. There's not an eye dropper tool that I can find the moment.

Okay, so I want to add them to my swatches first. So over here I'm gonna select these three. Okay? And I am going to go  to my swatches panel window down to swatches. And I'm gonna say here I'm gonna say add selected colors. Okay?

And if I drag this down here,  there are my colors there. One, two, and three. So now over here, let's close down the swatches panel. Let's go over here selecting on this. You specify colors, I can say yup and then yup. Actually you gotta do them one at a time plus again.

Yup. Yup. And it will use your colors kind of okay. Like it's gonna use 'em as a general rule,  not a real absolute. So if you're using like pantones  or specific colors, it's not good at like just  actually only using those colors. It kind of uses it to kind  of influence the colors rather than actually do it.

Let's have a look. There you go. So you can see it's not perfect. You can see they've views different shades of it all. Hopefully a bit more control will come over that,  but still, ah, so cool. You can limit the colors as well.

So I can say actually 30 is too much. Especially if you wanna pull it apart afterwards  and there's just too much going on. Let's turn it down to three. It doesn't work with three. There's just not enough detail for it  to do what it wants to. It's okay.

You can see there, even  with the specific three colors, it's gone  and used black as well. So yeah, it's, you can't be super tight. You can edit it afterwards of course. Okay, I'll show you how to do that in a sec. But you'll find your, what is a good limit of colors  for the things that you are making. If it's kind of really simple flat flowers, then you can go  for like the three colors.

We've got a fox that has no face now  because there's just not enough  colors for it to do its thing. There you go. That seems like a really good mix. It's tied into the colors. There's enough variation in there to get all the detail. Oh, I like it.

So a bit more advanced stuff. Let's look at what happens when these patterns are made. If you haven't done patterns  before, we did a little bit in uh, essentials course. We'll get another section later on in this course. Um, under, um, it's called color and patterns. So jump to that if you are dying to get more into patterns.

The basic one while we're here though, is um,  once it's generated these, if you go,  you might have seen it when we went to window and swatches. Okay, you'll see that they're actually being put in here. So we've got loads of swatches in here. So if you are working on this and experimenting  and then sending this to somebody, you might want to go  through through and delete some of the um,  swatches if you're not using them. So I'm going  to click off in the background so I got nothing selected. And then I'm gonna click on this and hit delete.

Okay. And you can remove them from your swatches panel. The other thing you can do is if you want  to edit this now if you're like, oh I like this,  but I wanna go and mess with it. Okay? It'll be inherent your swatches. Okay, so this is my text patterns, the last one that I made.

Okay, you can drag it out and there you go. Okay. This is like, this is no longer a pattern,  it's just the shapes. Okay? So I can go in here and I'm gonna go to command  or control Y for outline mode. And you can see this is all vector Good stuff now.

So we can grid in here with our direct selection tool  and start messing around with things, mess around  with 'em badly, okay? Just a for instance, okay? We can go through and start messing with these things  by dragging them out of the pens. Again, we'll go into pens a little bit more in the course,  but I didn't wanna leave you hanging here. This is kind of more general for all  of the AI features in Illustrator. Okay?

The first one is the variations. So if I click on this again  and I open up my, um,  either let's just twirl this down okay. Rather than the panel. You can see here  I've got all these variations. They're cool, but say you don't need them anymore,  they are increasing the file size, okay? And you might just not need them.

You don't want anybody to see them, you don't need them. You can just go through, click on them  and say, let's say delete variation. The other thing to note about using um, text vector due  to this pattern, but any of the actual AI features, okay,  I say AI gets confusing, right? Artificial intelligence is what I mean. So any of the uh, text vector stuff here in Illustrator  or in Photoshop or Firefly, they actually, um,  cost credits now. Okay?

So it costs, it's quite expensive for this  to actually be done by Adobe. It's not actually happening on your computer when you type  Fox and beach balls. Um, it actually goes off to Adobe. Adobe processes it on servers  and then they send it back to you. Um, they are giving everybody a certain amount  of credit is part of their licensing. It changes.

I'm on the kind of generic, uh, you know,  all software creative cloud license  and I get something like, I think it was a thousand. I'm not gonna say the number even though I have  because they're still working  through this on what they're actually gonna give people. I've never bumped into that limit. So you can go into your account settings, um,  and check how many credits you got left  and how many, uh, apply to your account. 'cause you might run out, you won't, you know,  they've done lots of research about the uses so far. I use it all the time  and I've never got anywhere near close to my limit.

And it's a monthly limit that will kind of roll, uh,  reset again every month. So just so you know, there are, um, credits  and they're called generative credits at the moment. So go and have a look how much you've got as part  of your plan, how much you've got left. And last one before we go is, there's one thing  that AI doesn't seem to be able to do anywhere at any time. I'll show you. There you go.

Hands, don't ask that to make hands. 'cause hands end up looking really weird. You end up with bent fingers  and fingers going the wrong way. And did anybody notice that? Uh, lemme move through this. Do you notice her hand?

This is the first time you've seen it. You're like, oh, oh, okay. So hands are really, uh,  Averagely done in any sort of artificial intelligence. I dunno why that is this problem. One last thing I'm gonna do is I like this one here. Oh, that one's good.

No hands. I'm gonna copy and paste the rectangle  and I'm gonna stick it right over the top. I'm going to fill it with, I'm going to fill it with black  and I'm gonna lower the opacity okay? And I'm gonna select both of them  and I'm going to right click and go to arrange  and send them to the back. Okay? Just to have a bit of, I don't know,  visual difference between the two.

My poorly shaped, uh, rectangle. There we go. Alright, that's it. Uh, time  to go find some coffee and donuts, right? See you in the next video.