Discover Digital Textile Printing for Fashion & Textiles

Introduction to Photoshop

Task oneCreating a basic Photoshop repeat using one motif

Stage 1. Using Macbooks and Photoshop Log in using username on card

Password will be: 20000101

Stage 2. Scanning drawings Access folder with

scanned A3 drawings

Follow instructions on scanner to scan sketchbook drawings

Stage 3. Opening scans in Photoshop File – open – find file OR drag file onto icon

Crop image so that just the part you plan to use is visible

Stage 4. Cleaning up scans Use the ERASER tool to get rid of

marks and mistakes (change the HARDNESS, OPACITY AND FLOW)

Edit – Adjustmentstry changing the BRIGHNESS/CONTRAST and HUE/SATURATION

Make selectionsuse the polygonal lasso tool to choose larger areas to clear

Stage 5. Repeat your motif Edit – define pattern - ok

Open new A4 pageFile – new – international paper – A4

Go to layers palette and create new fill or adjustment layer and select PATTERN

Try out different scales and then click ok

Task TwoCreating a placement print using several motifs

Stage 1. Open new A4 page (see previous slide)

Open 2-3 drawings

Crop drawings and erase parts you do not want

Stage 2 Select drawing using selection tools:

Magic wand - Select inversefor use when background is white

Polygonal lassoto select a particular area of a drawing

Copy and paste onto blank A4 pageEdit – copyEdit - paste

Stage 3 Free transform

Cmnd Tright Click

Choose scale, rotate, distort, flip etc

Stage 4 Layers palette – bottom right corner

When you paste on drawings they will appear as new layers

Swap order – drag layers to change order

OpacityChange opacity to make the selectedlayer translucent

Duplicate layer

Ctrl click and select DUPLICATE LAYER

Stage 5. Edit layers

Experiment with the following:

Image – Adjustments(curves, levels, hue/saturation, etc)

Blending modes (on layers palette)

Filters