From Procreate to Print on Demand with Affinity Photo: A New Class for Pattern Designers Ready to Start Selling

Learn how to optimise your procreate patterns for print on demand with Affinity Photo!

If you’ve mastered making seamless patterns in Procreate and you’re wondering what the next step is—this class is for you.

When you’re ready to take your pattern designs from “just for fun” to “ready for sale,” one of the biggest hurdles is figuring out how to apply those designs to real products. Procreate is amazing for creating patterns—but when it comes to mocking up your work for platforms like Redbubble or Threadless it doesn’t quite have all the tools you need.

That’s where this class comes in.

From Procreate to Print on Demand with Affinity Photo: A New Class for Pattern Designers Ready to Start Selling

🎨 What’s the Class About?

In my new Skillshare class, I’ll show you how to take your finished seamless pattern tile and create professional, high-quality templates using Affinity Photo—a budget-friendly, one-time purchase alternative to subscription-based design software.

You’ll learn exactly how to:

• Import your pattern tiles into Affinity Photo
• Create a library of assets for quick and easy reuse
• Apply your patterns to mockups, shapes, and layers
• Download and customise official Redbubble and Threadless templates
• Resize and scale your patterns for perfect print quality
• Organize your design files and speed up your workflow
• Even create quick Pinterest pins and marketing assets
• And finally—get your designs uploaded and ready to sell!

💡 Why Affinity Photo?

I know not everyone wants to commit to subscription software. That’s why I built this class using Affinity Photo. While Affinity Designer is more commonly used for surface pattern design, Affinity Photo is perfect for a pixel-based workflow—and it’s surprisingly powerful when it comes to applying patterns to templates.

👩‍🎨 Who’s This Class For?

This is an intermediate-level class for students who:

• Know how to make a seamless pattern (in Procreate or any other app)
• Want to start selling on print-on-demand platforms
• Are looking for a simple, affordable way to create mockups and templates
• Have never used Affinity Photo before (don’t worry—I’ll walk you through it!)

All you need is a finished seamless pattern tile, exported as a PNG or JPG.

🛍️ What You’ll Walk Away With

By the end of this class, you’ll have:

• A collection of ready-to-use templates with your designs applied
• Your first products uploaded to Redbubble or Threadless
• A new workflow for turning every pattern you create into potential income
• Tools to streamline your marketing and file organization

This is the kind of behind-the-scenes stuff that often feels overwhelming when you’re first starting to sell your designs—but I’ll show you how to make it feel fun and achievable.

🎥 Ready to Learn?

Join me in this hands-on Skillshare class, learn print on demand with Affinity Photo and let’s get your beautiful patterns off your iPad and out into the world.