Textile Design using Adobe Photoshop

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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_photoshop/textile_design.h tm 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 .

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