The book " Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design " is a learning
system that teaches how to use Adobe Photoshop to create textile
designs. It's designed as a step by step system so the student is not
overwhelmed and the more experienced Photoshop user can grasp Photoshop
and textile design concepts and be up and running quickly.
Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design was designed so you can learn at
your own pace and refer back to the lessons easily. Photoshop for
textile design was created by an experienced artist for artists and
every effort was made to simplify complex tasks so that they are easy
to absorb.
The CD that's included with the book is an essential part of the
learning system. The practice images on the CD correspond directly to
the lessons in the book. These include weaves, textile images to color
reduce and bodies & objects to photo drape textiles on. It also
contains 36 pages of color charts so that you can match colors
accurately.
"Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design" Covers the following subjects:
Selection and Fill Tools (basic textile settings), Filling with a solid
color, Color reducing a textile design in PhotoShop, Forced color
reduction using the Marquee tool, Coloring your textile design,
Cleaning a textile design, Editing a design (Copy, Cut and Paste),
Square and Half/drop Repeats, Creating a plaid, Mini bodies (placing a
textile design into a fashion sketch), Color reduction of a tonal
design, Basic Photo draping, How to use the color charts included on
the CD, Creating layers with various tools, Adjusting and Tinting
layers, Matching colors to a color chart (a must for color accuracy in
designing textiles), Pulling colors within a layer, Using Color Range
to select a mask, Reducing a layered design down to indexed color
(advanced watercolor technique & color reduction of a textile design),
Photo Draping using the warp tool, Using Bicubic Interpolation to
resample an image (resizing an image), A note about pixels per inch,
Placing colors on the Color Table in the order you want, Trapping and
Platforming and Fall-ons (oh my!) in textiles
The author of "Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design" Frederick
Chipkin has been a textile designer for Liz Claiborne, Bernard Chause,
Manager CAD dept I Appel, Owner of Design Society, and most recently
the owner of Origin inc. Textile Design studio.
Fredericks career has spanned 20 years in the textile industry.
Frederick has earned inclusion in the 2004 through 2006 Editions of
Who's Who in America. He is also included in the 2005 and 2006 Edition
of Who's Who in the world for pioneering a unique approach in adapting
Adobe Photoshop software to the Textile Industry. Besides running his
studio Frederick is best known for his book "Adobe PhotoShop for
textile design".
To find out more about " Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design " and
to view a sample from the book please visit us at
http://www.designtextile.com or it's mirror site
http://origininc.tripod.com/BOOK.htm . You can also view sample pages
at Google Book Search just go to http://books.google.com/books and type
in the ISBN# 0972731709 .