Presenting Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design
Presenting Adobe Photoshop for Textile design. This book and CD was
created as a textile design learning system. It will show you step by
step techniques for creating color combinations, color reduction,
repeats, tonal (watercolor) designs and simple woven effects used in
fabric design. The CD included with the book includes color charts and
practice fabric designs. You can find Adobe Photoshop at
http://origininc.tripod.com/BOOK.htm .
Everything in this book is explained in a simple uniform manner so that
nothing is overwhelming to the beginner textile designer and so that
the more advanced PhotoShop user can grasp key concepts more quickly.
Origin inc. is a design studio that uses only Adobe Photoshop for its
design work. As with any design software there are many ways to achieve
the desired end effects. This book provides instructions on many tried
and true fabric design techniques that Origin inc. uses every day.
Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design teaches the following subjects:
Selection and Fill Tools - basic textile design settings
Color reducing a textile design in PhotoShop
Forced color reduction using the Marquee tool
Coloring your textile design
Cleaning a textile design
Editing tools for textile design
Square and Half/drop Repeats in fabric design
Creating a plaid
Mini bodies - placing a textile design into a fashion sketch
Color reduction of a tonal textile design
Basic Photo draping - used for fashion designs and home furnishing
design - placing a textile you designed on a photograph or home
furnishing
How Textile Designers can use the color charts included on the CD
Creating layers with various tools
Adjusting and Tinting layers in your fabric designs
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 - advanced tool for placing a
textile you designed on a photograph.
Using Bicubic Interpolation to resample an image (resizing a
textile design)
A note about pixels per inch as related to textile designing
Placing colors on the Color Table in the order you want (to make
recoloring of a textile design easier)
Trapping and Platforming and Fall-ons in textiles
If you would like to view sample pages from Adobe Photoshop for Textile
Design please go to
http://origininc.tripod.com/adobe_ph...ile_design.htm 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 .