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Written for Adobe Photoshop CS3. The book Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design is a learning system. The following subjects are covered: Selection and Fill Tools (basic textile settings), 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, Editing a 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, 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. These books are self published by Origin inc.

This is a sample technique from from Adobe Photoshop for Textile design:

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Creating a square repeat by using the Offset Filter

Creating a repeat using the Offset filter is the most versatile and commonly used method for creating a repeat in PhotoShop. It requires a lot of juggling between color modes but once you get the hang of it, its rather quite easy.

1. Start out by opening a design that is in the Indexed color mode.

2. Change the color mode to RGB.

3. Click on Filter, drag down to Other then drag over to Offset.

4. The offset dialog box will pop up. Make sure that the Wrap around function has been selected. Make sure that the Preview box has been checked.

5. Change the numbers in the Horizontal and Vertical boxes to 1000. Your design should now appear offset. Which means that there should be a vertical seam in your design and a horizontal seam in your design. If you dont see a seam in your design then keep changing the numbers next to the horizontal and vertical boxes until you to see a seam appear towards the middle of your design. Click OK.

6. Click on Image drag down to Mode drag over to Indexed color make sure that the word Exact appears next to the word Palette and then click OK.

7. Using your drawing and selection tools change the cut off motifs that are next to the seam so that they appear whole and part of the design. This last step will require some practice.

When youre done with step 7 repeat steps 2 to 6 to double check and see if your repeat is working.

Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design covers the following subjects:

Selection and Fill Tools (basic textile settings)

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. Well 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 too

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