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 A colour printer is an important tool for transferring designs to a wide range of papers or fabrics. This book explains the different techniques of printing with your printer. Different printing surfaces are investigated and methods of transfer discussed. |
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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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Selections
There are six booklets published so far, each containing a number of Back Issue Design-IT articles on a
theme. Something for everybody includes articles on Layers, Blending, and pieces for free machine quilting,
embroidery, computerised sewing machines, computer designs to fabric, digital camera and scanners.
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1 Fractals This publication in the Selections series ncludes three articles on the generation and potential uses of fractal patterns. |
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2 Ideas Made Easy This publication in the Selections series includes five articles written around various paint and sewing machine programs and design to fabric techniques. |
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3 Inspiration
from Nature This publication in the Selections series includes three articles on Textile designs created from photos or scanned images of flowers leaves and sea shells. |
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4 Women of
Letters This publication in the Selections series includes four articles on the theme of Textile Designs based on patterns generated from the alphabet. |
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5 Working With
Bernina This publication in the Selections series includes three articles devoted to Computerised Sewing Machines. |
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6 Working With
Paint A collection of Design-IT articles on working with the Paint Program. |
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