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
This workbook covers computer design for textiles: including mark making, colour theory, and designing with pattern. This book is aimed at most paint programs and therefore instructions are generic. The occasional empty page offers the reader the opportunity to add their design responses.
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2 Screen to Fabric
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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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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.
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Other Publication
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Using Paint, A Guide for Beginners
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.
PDF Download £3.00
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Books
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