Publications: Workbooks & Selections
The following publications are available in our online shop or by downloading the order form here.
Workbooks
The CTDG workbooks are useful to beginners and the more experienced. They are designed to be used
individually, in groups, or in a Workshop and will help students understand how to use a computer to
develop different design methods for a variety of textile skills. They are designed to take the reader through
various techniques by using worked examples, which can be developed using most paint or draw programs,
on either AppleMac or Windows.
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1 Colour & Design |
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2 Screen to Fabric Out of print. |
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3 Fabulous
Filters A wide variety of filters enable the designer to convey different colour moods, textural surfaces, and geometric arrangements. This workbook introduces the reader to the range of filters with a number of short and sometimes almost instant projects. The workbook's illustrations show a variety of solutions however the reader's answers may vary drastically as the reader's values chosen for each filter may give very different answers. The results will be personal. |
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4 All About
Selections This workbook guides the student through the main selection tools of most paint programs. Selections are invaluable if you wish to copy or separate a part of your design from the whole. Once separated an area can be duplicated, shifted, rotated, inverted or stretched with ease. Filters can be applied and selections blended and warped. |
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5 Draw
Programs and
Pattern Making How to get the best out of vector or draw programs, so that they can be used for varied Design applications. This workbook shows readers how to make simple shapes into interesting patterns and original designs. Here you see rotation, skewing, borders and corners then pulling these simple transformations together to form a more sophisticated result. |
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6 Scanners,
Scanning, Scans With initial technical guidelines the reader is drawn into creative projects that push the use of the scanner in new directions. The advantages of a scanned image are developed while the apparent disadvantages are used as creative starting points. Photographs, ripped papers, torches, frozen liquid and peeled fruit are just some of the starting points. |
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7 Using your
Digital Camera Lighting & Weather, Framing, Using a Grid, Diagonals & Triangles, Using Flash, From Camera to Computer, Contacts & Filing. |
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8 Designing on Your
Computer A series of projects working with Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop Elements are described step by step. Beginning with an illustration of the screen set up. A page of vital skills helps the reader open and save files, pick colours and define tools. The first few projects gradually lead the beginner through the design process investigating the use of tools and their Option Bars on one or two layers. While later projects, are multilayered designs. A personal response is encouraged. |
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9 Designing
With Layers A series of projects that demystify the use of Layers. Working from photographs, drawings or scan to the finished design the reader is guided through the process of designing using layers. The first projects begin with just one layer but gradually the number and complexity of the layers used grows. On the final project the reader could be using, blending, restacking and grouping any number of layers with ease. |
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10. Exploring Image Transfer One of the commonest questions we are asked is ‘How do I get my image from the screen onto fabric’? This workbook attempts to answer that question as comprehensively as possible. With a guide to the methods of transferring designs to fabric using your home printer and a variety of different media. In addition there are technical chapters on getting to know your printer and setting up your monitor |
Other Publications
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Working With Paint A collection of Design-IT articles on working with the Paint Program. |
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Using Paint, A Guide for Beginners Part 2. The booklet contains some designs made using Paint and reprints of the Using Paint articles from issues 70 to 74 of Design-IT. |
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