Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design
(isbn# 9780972731775) was
created as a textile design tutorial. In our book you will learn step by step techniques for creating color
combinations, color reduction, repeats, tonal (watercolor) designs and simple
woven effects for textiles. using Adobe Photoshop. With the book we also include
a CD with Color
charts and practice images.
The book Adobe Photoshop for Textile
Design is a collection of lessons that progress from simple
everyday techniques and settings to more advanced techniques that will enable
the designer to tackle the most challenging design work. Everything is explained in
a simple uniform manner so that nothing is overwhelming to the textile
designer just learning computer aided design and so that the more experienced
designer can grasp key concepts more
quickly.
Origin inc. is a
textile design
studio that uses Adobe Photoshopâ for
its designing exclusively. As with any design software there are
many ways to achieve the desired end effects. Our book "Adobe Photoshop for
Textile Design" provides instructions on
many tried and true textile design techniques that the Origin inc. design studio uses every day.
Photoshop for
Textile Design is self published by Origin inc. It's 219 pages of
tutorials and is spiral bound for ease of use. As equally important as the book itself
is the CD that's included with the book. It contains practice images that
correspond to the lessons in the book. These 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. More then just a tutorial
Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design is a complete learning system.
Instructions are given for Adobe Photoshop CC
(Creative Cloud) however this book will work well with
Adobe Photoshop versions 7.0 through
CS6.
Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design
covers the following subjects:
Selection and Fill Tools (basic textile settings)
Neatening up your Desktop and Adjusting the
Preferences
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 (tricks you should know)
Editing a
textile 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
(placing a textile design into a photograph of a person or object)
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
a textile design using the warp tool.
Photo Draping a bed
Using Bicubic Interpolation to resample
an image (resizing an image)
A note about pixels per inch
in relation to textile design
Placing colors on the Color Table in the order you want
Trapping and Platforming and Fall-ons in textiles
Color reducing a watercolor floral design down to a soft
stipple
Quick method for adding stippled highlights to a flat image
(without using the airbrush tool)
File management - an easy way of saving your textile designs
so you can find them again (easily)
Advanced textile design techniques
Color reducing a watercolor floral down to 7 or 5 or 3
colors using a soft stipple
Color reducing a design down to index color in 5 minutes.
We'll show you a technique that should really speed things up.
Color reducing a design down to index color in 5 minutes
again (this time with a stipple)
Add a stippled highlight to a flat image without having to
use the airbrush tool.
Price $118 USD United States Dollars - For Adobe Photoshop for Textile design - Version CC book (Creative
Cloud)
Price $98.95 USD United States Dollars - Academic price
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For Adobe Photoshop for Textile design - For Adobe Photoshop Version CC
Price
$99.95
USD United States Dollars
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For Adobe Photoshop for Textile design Version
CS6 book
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that were written for CC so we are discounting the CS6 version of the book. The copywrite of the CS6 version is 2012.
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DESIGN & INSPIRATION
Want more? Introducing the Origin inc. textile design
collections. These collections contain original fabric designs from the Origin
inc. textile design library. When you buy a collection you are purchasing the
rights to use them in textile design or surface design projects free and without
special permissions. Either for their colors, techniques or simply used for
their motifs the designer will have the freedom to use this collection as needed
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