Re: Creating patterns in Illustrator

You can drag vectors or rasters into the Swatches palette, than use them as fills. Vectors can be solids or gradients.
I recall that some vectors must be expanded (object/expand) before they can be added to Swatches, but I can't think of the specifics right now.

As far as applying a pattern on top of an image or some other object, you could create a new shape object on top of the image, apply the pattern to it, than set the appropriate transparency mode if necessary.

To create the 10x10, select the Rectangle Tool and click on the artboard. There you can enter the specific dimensions. Or you can use the Transform palette if the object has already been drawn.

Hope this helps

Vince

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