ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
ELEMENTS
for TEXTILE DESIGN |
Welcome to ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS for TEXTILE DESIGN !
(ISBN 978-0-9727317-3-7)
Get ready to embrace a
wonderful new way of creating Textile Designs! In the book “Adobe Photoshop
Elements for Textile Design” you will learn the simplicity and joy of using
Adobe Photoshop Elements to create textile designs. Like the little engine that
could, Adobe Photoshop Elements in its latest incarnation is finally mature
enough and capable enough to be used as a full fledged design program! The first
thing you will discover is that Photoshop Elements has an extensive arsenal of design
tools that can easily handle all the everyday challenges that a textile designer
may encounter in the textile and fashion industry today. For such an affordable
program Photoshop Elements is surprisingly versatile and powerful.
However don't be fooled. All this simplicity and ease of use
doesn’t compromise the fact that it’s also a powerful and dynamic design tool. Adobe Photoshop
Elements answers the need for an affordable yet complete design program to perfection. With its tremendous selection of
design tools to work with you will find that Photoshop Elements can tackle the
most challenging design project. Whether you’re new to textile design or whether
you’re an experienced textile designer, I’m sure that you’ll find that the
program Adobe Photoshop Elements is a powerful, exciting tool that you can use
to both learn and excel in the art of textile design.
Adobe Photoshop Elements for
Textile Design was written Elements 8.0 and is self published by Origin inc. It's 109 pages of tutorials
and is spiral bound for ease of use. The CD that comes with the book
contains practice images that correspond to the lessons in the book. These
images include weaves, textile images to color reduce, bodies & objects to photo
drape textiles on and 36 pages of color charts so that you can match colors
accurately.
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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
ELEMENTS
for TEXTILE DESIGN covers the following
subjects:
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Adjusting the
Desktop
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The Basic
Drawing, Fill and Selection Tools
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Copy, Cut and
Paste
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Using
the selection tools to fill with a solid color
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Color
reduction in elements
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Cleaning Your
design
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Coloring your
design
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Creating a
square repeat by using the Define Pattern function
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Creating a
square repeat by using the Offset Filter
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Creating a
half-drop (brick) repeat
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What if you
are working with an older version of Elements that doesn’t have
guides? How do you do half-drop repeats then?
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Exact repeats
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Creating a
woven plaid
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Creating a
printed plaid
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Creating a
printed plaid with a texture
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Mini
bodies
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Filling your
sketch with the pattern
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Placing a bias
pattern into the sketch
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Photo draping
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How to use the
color charts on the CD
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Adjusting and
tinting layers
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Matching
colors to a color chart
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Pulling colors
within a layer
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Creating a
Faux Mask
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Reducing a
layered design down to Indexed Color
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A note about
pixels per inch
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Resizing your
image
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Placing colors
on the Color Table in the order you want
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Trapping and
Platforming and Fall-ons (Oh My!)
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Shortcuts and
time savers
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Timesaver 1:
Color reducing a watercolor floral down to
7
or 5 or maybe even 3
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colors using a
soft stipple. Impossible? I say NAY!
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Timesaver 2:
Color reducing a design down to index color in 5
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minutes. I’ll
show you a technique that should really speed
things up
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Timesaver 3: Color reducing
a design down to Indexed Color
in 5 minutes again (this time with a stipple)
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Timesaver 4:
Add a stippled highlight to a flat image without having
to use the
airbrush tool.
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Timesaver 5:
Saving a design so you can find it again.
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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS for TEXTILE DESIGN
by Frederick L Chipkin |
We've got plenty of
textile images to practice with ! These images (plus much more) are
included on the CD !
There's also a section on Photo
Draping !
Also on the CD we've included color
charts so you can match colors accurately. Why? Because Textile Design
is all about
color!
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