A Technical Question

Can anyone tell me for what kind of project a designer would be looking for a ‘texture pattern fill’ as contrasting with a ‘textured background’.

I see files with one ‘texture’ in many colours, and i had one approved like that, but recently i submitted a background texture in several colours it was rejected because it was only one pattern in several colours. The colours are apparently not so relevant to a buyer.

So i need to sort out in my head the difference between these 2 categories, and why one is chosen over the other. Thanks.

On the web, size matters. This is why seamless/tileable patterns are used.

graphicmind said
On the web, size matters. This is why seamless/tileable patterns are used.

Ah, so web and print projects require different items?

joiaco said

graphicmind said
On the web, size matters. This is why seamless/tileable patterns are used.

Ah, so web and print projects require different items?

I’m not sure about print design but what I do know is that colours actually do matter. I’ve noticed that when you include more colour variations, you usually get more sales.

joiaco said

graphicmind said
On the web, size matters. This is why seamless/tileable patterns are used.

Ah, so web and print projects require different items?

Most definately. Usually for print jobs I go for extended realism. For example for a menu of a restaurant you might want a nice dark wood background where the texture itself needs to “feel” very real and then you can start aplying shadows and lights and what not on top of that in order to create the illusion for layed down photo of a cafe mug on wooden table next to a nice had drawn price list.

and then again for the web, the element sizes vary alot, so its much more handy if the texture actually loops. if you are using a looping background then you’re probably golden with just one background and you don’t have to make different version for all the different element sizes. and also the screen sizes are different. so if you want you background image to fill the whole screen it needs to be awfully huge to to do that. and in a smaller monitor where you just see a bit of that background the texture could easily appear too big.

and then there is the DPI . generally in printing the DPI to be used is 300. Or actually 304 if you want to be a dick about it. and on the screen 72 DPI is the way to go.

hope this helps!

hope this helps!

Thank you very much – yes it does! A lot!