Discover Digital Textile Printing for Fashion & Textiles Introduction to Photoshop

Task one Creating a basic Photoshop repeat using one motif

Stage 1. Using Macbooks and Photoshop  Log in using username on card  Password will be:

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 – Adjustments try changing the BRIGHNESS/CONTRAST and HUE/SATURATION  Make selections use the polygonal lasso tool to choose larger areas to clear

Stage 5. Repeat your motif  Edit – define pattern - ok  Open new A4 page File – 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 Two Creating 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 inverse for use when background is white  Polygonal lasso to select a particular area of a drawing  Copy and paste onto blank A4 page Edit – copy Edit - paste

Stage 3  Free transform Cmnd T right 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  Opacity Change opacity to make the selected layer 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