By Kim Kight
When you have ever dreamed of unveiling your designs on textile, cloth aficionado Kim Kight, of renowned weblog real Up, is right here to coach you ways. finished and refreshingly straight forward, this awesome quantity positive factors major elements. First, the layout and colour part explains the fundamentals with step by step tutorials on developing repeating styles either by way of hand and at the desktop. subsequent, the Printing part courses you thru shifting these designs on fabric-whether its block printing, reveal printing, electronic printing or licensing to a cloth company-and how you can verify the simplest approach for you.
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To convert to anti-aliased art, proceed to Step 5. pixels with the Eraser tool. Convert the file to Grayscale (Image > Mode > Grayscale); then click OK in the dialog box that pops up (you want the default Size Ratio of 1). Open the Layers panel (Window > Layers)—you must double-click on the lock to make the artwork editable. Name the layer as desired. To continue working with un-anti-aliased art: Go to Photoshop > Preferences > General and set the Image Interpolation to Nearest Neighbor (Preserve Hard Edges) (Figure 3).
In short, reproduce vintage designs at your own risk. And remember that even if you alter the design, you only own the copyright to your changes—not to the original work. If the original work is in the public domain, then anyone is free to reproduce it. Adapted from Peter B. Hirtle, © 2004–2011. Last updated January 3, 2011. 0 License. S. intellectual property law, once you create an original design in a tangible form (not just an idea), the copyright to it belongs to you for the rest of your life plus 70 years.
Make sure the motifs along the bottom and top edges overlap perfectly—zoom in to check with the Magnifying Glass tool. The left edges of the copies should line up with the right edge of the artboard, and the bottom repeat boundary of the top right copy should align with the horizontal midline of the original. The motifs outlined in red are the duplicates here. 2. Draw a rectangle (with no fill or stroke weight) Tutorial: DESIGNING REPEATS BY COMPUTER representing the repeat boundaries as in Step 4 of Square Repeats (page 49), and center it inside the guides.