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Subject: Fabric design learning sytem, Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design Author: Chipkin [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 11:08:17 04/08/06 Sat Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design , teaching resource 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: „X Selection and Fill Tools - basic textile design settings „X Color reducing a textile design in PhotoShop „X Forced color reduction using the Marquee tool „X Coloring your textile design „X Cleaning a textile design „X Editing tools for textile design „X Square and Half/drop Repeats in fabric design „X Creating a plaid „X Mini bodies - placing a textile design into a fashion sketch „X Color reduction of a tonal textile design „X Basic Photo draping - used for fashion designs and home furnishing design - placing a textile you designed on a photograph or home furnishing „X How Textile Designers can use the color charts included on the CD „X Creating layers with various tools „X Adjusting and Tinting layers in your fabric designs „X Matching colors to a color chart - a must for color accuracy in designing textiles „X Pulling colors within a layer „X Using Color Range to select a mask „X Reducing a layered design down to indexed color (advanced watercolor technique & color reduction of a textile design) „X Photo Draping using the warp tool - advanced tool for placing a textile you designed on a photograph. „X Using Bicubic Interpolation to resample an image (resizing a textile design) „X A note about pixels per inch as related to textile designing „X Placing colors on the Color Table in the order you want (to make recoloring of a textile design easier) „X 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_photoshop/textile_design.htm or just go to http://books.google.com/ and type in type in the ISBN 0972731709 . For more general information please go to http://www.designtextile.com [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Enquire Author: Rajinder Singh (India) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 08:25:10 10/27/06 Fri Dear Sir/Madam, I am interested to purchage your Adobe photoshop for textile Book and CD so please give me the below information about the same. 1: What is cost of the book and cd. 2:How to purchage ( By Cheque or By Creadit card) 3: Is any office in india. 4: How much time will it take for delevery. Please reply as early as possible. With best regards Rajinder singh +91 9868728315 India. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Fabric design learning sytem, Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design Author: Jenny (Good Info) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 11:01:07 07/28/07 Sat Great info. I work at a fabric store www.jandofabrics.com and we are looking for new ways to design fabrics and play with different colors. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]