How to Make a Polka Dot Background for Flash Slide Show with Illustrator Swatches

This tutorial reveals how the background for the Celebrity Kitchen flash show was applied. Its actually a polka dot pattern. See a close up of the polka dot background here or learn how to create a flash slideshow itself.

How to Make a Polka Dot Background for Flash Slide Show with Illustrator Swatch

Ever worked with Adobe Illustrator color swatches? According to this help page, Swatches are named colors, tints, gradients, and patterns. The swatches associated with a document appear in the Swatches panel. Swatches can appear individually or in groups.

Illustrator and Photoshop have nice color swatches that you can choose from and there’s always room to make your own or upload adittional swatches. The polka dot background was drawn out from a premade swatch found at this 53 IMPRESSIVE POLKA DOT PATTERN SWATCHES article.

Check out the following demonstation on how color swatches are used…

The polka dot background for the celebrity kitchens feature was made by first selecting a swatch. Choose the best swatch, any swatch. The next step was to use the shape tool to draw out a rectangle. Click here for How to Make A Square, Rectangle, Triangle, and Other Shapes In Illustrator. Following these two instructs leads to a rectangle with a polka dot design.

Congratulations on the new background image. As a last step, import the rectangle to Adobe Photoshop so you can save it as an image file. Read How to Save, Convert Illustrator AI Images to make sure you are ready with the right picture format to share your new background image.

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