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Fashion & Interior Design



Rendering Fashion, Fabric and Prints with Adobe Photoshop
M. Kathleen Colussy, The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale
Steve Greenberg, Pointcarre USA

ISBN-10: 0130494097
ISBN-13: 9780130494092

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 624 pp
Published: 01/16/2004

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For Textile Design, Fashion Illustration and Graphic Design courses.

This is the only step-by-step how-to guide of its kind to address all aspects of desired textile/surface design effects using Adobe PhotoShop. From a description of various ways to get results, to the best way for presenting work created in the textile/surface design industry, the combined talents of the two authors successfully addresses the education classroom issues as well as industry related challenges in a text utilizing the most successful industry standard software on the market today.

  • Insightful and practical industry applications in a step-by-step format—Provides detailed guidelines to create all the prints, textiles and other renderings that designers spend many hours trying to figure out.
    • Provides students with an easy-to-follow guidebook that increases their outcome objectives.

  • Real-life tested for ease-of-use and direction.
    • Increases students' success in learning and decreases instructors' time spent creating lessons.

  • Widely applicable techniques—Applicable to many different industries.
    • Enables students with varying degrees of training to learn common issues designers need to deal with on an everyday basis.

  • Companion CD with exercise template and trial software.
    • Enables students to easily understand complex design concepts. Enables instructors to use the exercises as they are or adapt the format to suit their course requirements.

  • Over 1,000 images—Provides highly visual presentation that takes the guesswork out of replicating industry information.
    • Provides students with visual reinforcement of industry relevant ideas and information.



 1. Understand the Textile You Will Render.


 2. Understanding Fabric Construction.


 3. Intro To Adobe PhotoShop 7 Tools & Techniques.


 4. Design Basics with Adobe PhotoShop.


 5. Understanding Color and Prints.


 6. Contending with Computers Color Matching Issues.


 7. How-To Render Yarns, Woven Patterns and Knits in Adobe PhotoShop.


 8. Rendering Stripes, Check and Plaids with Adobe PhotoShop.


 9. Understanding Prints and Repeats.


10. Advanced Rendering Prints with Adobe PhotoShop.


11. Rendering Fashion.


12. PhotoShop and Beyond, Using Plug-ins, Proprietary and Textile Printers.


Appendix Resources and References.

  • Student Software
    Colussy
    © 2005 | Prentice Hall | Software | Out of Stock
    ISBN-10: 0131428144 | ISBN-13: 9780131428140


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