Fashion Designers Handbook for Adobe Illustrator 2nd Edition is a teach-yourself guide that provides step-by-step instructions and diagrams on how to use Adobe Illustrator CS5. Bursting with detailed technical information and full colour illustrations, its highly practical approach ensures fast learning. Fashion Designers Handbook for Adobe Illustrator 2nd Edition is a teach-yourself guide that provides step-by-step instructions and diagrams on how to use Adobe Illustrator CS5. Bursting with detailed technical information and full colour illustrations, its highly practical approach ensures fast learning. You will not only learn how to create technical drawings, but also fashion illustrations, flat drawings and storyboards for the fashion industry, and how to combine Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Once the basics are covered, you have the opportunity to learn more about the sophisticated aspects of this essential software package.If you are a fashion student or a fashion designer, this is the only book youll need to master the very latest version of Adobe Illustrator.
PREFACE vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
QUICK REFERENCE TOOLS PANELS viii ix
ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR QUICK REFERENCE TOOLS PANEL x
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP QUICK REFERENCE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS xi
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 in Photoshop 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 of the poses in
Illustrator 188 192
Faces 193 195
Summary 196
INDEX 198 200
Note: some parts of headings and sub-headings may be summarised.
Marianne Centner has worked in the fashion industry for over 25 years, both in South Africa and Australia. She has worked extensively in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Marianne runs her own design studio and trains designers in the fashion industry. Frances Vereker has extensive experience teaching fashion drawing and computer drawing to students and teachers. She liaises with secondary and tertiary colleges throughout Victoria, Australia, giving her a unique opportunity to understand the learning process within fashion and textiles. Frances has lectured at major fashion institutions and has close links with the fashion industry.
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