From Pencil to Pen Tool
Understanding & Creating the Digital Fashion Image
- Textbook
From Pencil to Pen Tool
Understanding & Creating the Digital Fashion Image
- Textbook
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Description
In today's fashion industry, the traditional skills of forecasting, cutting, sewing and drafting are no longer enough. Students must be able to transform their two-dimensional plans into computer-generated images. From Pencil to Pen Tool: Understanding Creating the Digital Fashion Image teaches Adobe PhotoShop CS and Illustrator CS techniques applicable to both fashion students entering the field and established fashion-industry professionals seeking to stay current with technology. This book includes technical instruction about sketching and image production, as well as practical advice about creating a computer-generated portfolio and entering the fashion marketplace. Instructor's Guide available on request
Table of Contents
* New Tools for the New Millennium: PhotoShop and Adobe Illustrator Used in Cutting Edge Design
* Design Basics: The 4 Elements of Fashion: Silhouette/Colour/Texture/Details
* Fashion Sketching Basics: Tutorial A: Building the Basic Fashion Croquis for Men, Women, and Children
* Technical Flats: Tutorial B: Drawing Silhouettes and Construction Details
* Fashion Technology Overview: Pixel vs. Vector for the PC Mac
* Software Basics: Getting Started with Adobe PhotoShop
* Working with Adobe PhotoShop to Create Trend Boards
* Working with PhotoShop to Create Textile Pattern Designs
* Software Basics: Getting Started with Adobe Illustrator
* Mastering the Adobe Illustrator Pen Tool
* Working with Adobe Illustrator and PhotoShop to Create Flats and Illustrations
* Advanced Adobe PhotoShop and Illustrator Techniques
* Presentations is Everything: What is Expected in Your Portfolio Entering the Fashion Marketplace
TEXT FEATURES
- General introductions to the imaging programmes, accompanied by more specific instructions for fashion applications
- Clear, step-by-step instructions
- Information about the evolution and the future of fashion-imaging technology
- Practice exercises with each lesson
STUDENT RESOURCES FEATURES
- Full-colour tutorials
- Current croquis
- Palettes with preloaded presets of fabric swatches
- Library of ready-to-use construction details
- Stock photography for fashion graphics
- Practice exercises
Product details
| Published | 17 Jun 2014 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 352 |
| ISBN | 9781501386237 |
| Imprint | Fairchild Books |
| Illustrations | illustrations |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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