Today while visiting the fabric developer of a New York fashion line, I saw a Wall Street Journal article blown up on the Wall. "Are You Wearing a Watercolor?"
It's easy to get caught up in the artistic aspect of creating a beautiful design and lose sight of the fact that the fabric is not usually the end product - remember, it's usually part of something else. Make a habit of picturing the textile print as part of the finished product, especially concerning the scale of the print, overall color feel and end usage of your digitally printed fabric before sending us your files. Tell us whether you want to make a prototype or final retail product.
The author of best selling book Digital Textile Design and recently published Print Make Wear, Melanie inspires and enables others to create their own printed textiles.
Above individual radial tile images were created on tracing paper and then were scanned. In Photoshop each image was opened and Edit: Create Pattern was selected. A new larger file was opened and Edit:Fill Using Pattern was selected to create the images with seamless repeating patterns. A similar effect can be created in freeware tool Repper.
Buy a hosting plan & get a year free on Envato Tuts+ (RRP $180) This is a basic illustration tutorial combined with a practical overview of file preparation for Digital Textile Printing. After a long process of trial and error I've developed a streamlined process for creating files for digital textile printing.
Digital Textile Design, Second Edition. covers everything students and practitioners of textile design will need to learn about designing and printing digitally.
Today while visiting the fabric developer of a New York fashion line, I saw a Wall Street Journal article blown up on the Wall. "Are You Wearing a Watercolor?"
It's easy to get caught up in the artistic aspect of creating a beautiful design and lose sight of the fact that the fabric is not usually the end product - remember, it's usually part of something else. Make a habit of picturing the textile print as part of the finished product, especially concerning the scale of the print, overall color feel and end usage of your digitally printed fabric before sending us your files. Tell us whether you want to make a prototype or final retail product.
The author of best selling book Digital Textile Design and recently published Print Make Wear, Melanie inspires and enables others to create their own printed textiles.
Above individual radial tile images were created on tracing paper and then were scanned. In Photoshop each image was opened and Edit: Create Pattern was selected. A new larger file was opened and Edit:Fill Using Pattern was selected to create the images with seamless repeating patterns. A similar effect can be created in freeware tool Repper.
Buy a hosting plan & get a year free on Envato Tuts+ (RRP $180) This is a basic illustration tutorial combined with a practical overview of file preparation for Digital Textile Printing. After a long process of trial and error I've developed a streamlined process for creating files for digital textile printing.
Digital Textile Design, Second Edition. covers everything students and practitioners of textile design will need to learn about designing and printing digitally.
