Fashion Designer's Handbook for Adobe Illustrator

PREFACE vi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
QUICK REFERENCE TOOLS PANELS viii - ix
ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR - QUICK REFERENCE TOOLS PANEL x
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP - QUICK REFERENCE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTSxi
CHAPTER 1: THE BASICS.
Vector and bitmap images 2
Colour modes 3
Open Illustrator, create and save a new fi le 4
Customise the work area 5 - 6
Workspace 7 - 8
Tools panel 9
Tools 10 - 26
A simple exercise 27 - 30
Type tool 31 - 32
Add or change artboards 33
Summary 34
CHAPTER 2: FIRST GARMENT.
Create a new fi le - scan and place an image 36
Trace and expand the image of child croquis 37
Create a new layer 38 - 39
Drawing a dress 40 - 51
Completed dress, create alternate style 52 - 60
New layer and colour change 61
Measuring lines with arrows 62
Prepare fi le for export to JPEG format 63 - 64
Summary 65
Croquis: Child 66
CHAPTER 3: TECHNICAL DRAWING.
Creating silhouettes - female youth croquis 68
Creating a library of basic garment shapes 69
Creating a basic tee and neckband 70
Swatches panel and stripe pattern swatch 71
Scaling and rotating the stripe pattern fi ll 72
Brushes panel and stripe brush 73 - 74
Offset spot pattern repeat 75 - 76
Troubleshoot pattern fi lls 77
Technical drawing 78 - 86
Pattern brushes 87 - 95
Colorization and expand brushes 96
Save a brush stroke / accessories library 97
Masking 98 - 99
Expanded brush strokes and trims 100
Female and male garment symbols 101
Croquis: Adults 102
Croquis: Youth, baby and toddler 103
Libraries 104
Consistency 105
Summary 106
CHAPTER 4: STORY BOARDS.
Styling 108
Rib top 109 - 114
Jacket 115 - 117
X-over top 118 - 119
Yarn-dyed stripe top 120 - 121
Skirt 122 - 125
Shorts 126 - 127
Dress 128 - 132
Background fl owers 133 - 134
Story board 135
Summary 136
CHAPTER 5:- STORY BOARDS.
Male croquis development 138 - 141
Story board 1 - Digital photograph 142 - 144
Adding effects to an illustration and working with text 144- 147
Story board 2 - Tee-shirts and placement prints 148- 150
Downloading fonts and clip art 151
Story board 3 - Denim wash effects and colour change 152- 156
Story board 4 - Adobe Photoshop 157
Hand draw a fashion illustration 158
Photoshop 159 - 161
Clean a scanned image 162 - 164
Colour fi ll the garments 165
Gradient editor 166 - 168
Colour change of a scanned fabric 169 - 170
Colour sampling and layers in Photoshop 171 - 173
Story board and edit background photograph 174 -175
Female croquis development - hand drawing 176
Story board 5 - Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator 177
Adobe Photoshop - cut - out and edit a photograph inPhotoshop 178 - 180
Adobe Illustrator - place Photoshop fi le 180 -181
Technical drawings 183 - 185
Digital photograph editing 186 - 187
Story board 6 - Male croquis development and variations ofthe poses in Illustrator 188 - 192
Faces 193 - 195
Summary 196
INDEX 198 - 200
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