Week 6 - Repeat Tutorials

The first tutorial that Lea went through with us was the stripe design. Simply starting from a square or rectangle canvas, the rectangle tool was used to select vertical strips in succession, then each was filled with the paint bucket. After a number of strips, the motif was selected then copied to fill the canvas. We then defined the pattern, created a new canvas and selected 'fill.'

Stripe Pattern

The second part of the tutorial was all about creating a pattern using downloaded brushes and making a motif to put into repeat. I selected a brush in a bird shape and used transform and duplicate to flip and rotate the bird into a symmetrical motif. After creating my motif I selected an area to use to 'define pattern' which was then later used to 'fill' a blank canvas. This area selected must be a square or rectangle. The pattern differed depending on whether or not I selected a rectangle or a square to define the pattern.

Rectangle defined pattern

Square defined pattern

Week 6 - Samples of repeat systems for textile designs.

I loved this task! such a great way to recognise the different methods of textile designs and also to find some inspiration!

Mirror
(image from http://www.repeatssosweet.com/2011_05_01_archive.html)

Ogee
(image from http://www.trueup.net/2010/the-daily-swatch/daily-swatch-pattern-types-ogee/)

Diamond
(image from http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photography-diamond-vector-repeat-tiled-pattern-image17721587)

Tossed
(image from http://www.trueup.net/2010/the-daily-swatch/daily-swatch-pattern-types-two-way/)

Half drop
(image from http://joannewebbblog.wordpress.com/)

Brick
(image from http://www.trueup.net/2010/the-daily-swatch/daily-swatch-pattern-types-brick-repeats/)

Stripe
(image from http://www.kidsfabrics.co.uk/paddock-mango-stripe-fabric.html)

Spot Repeat
(image from http://orronfearon.blogspot.com.au/)

Week 4 - Blog Title

I thought I should sum up the blog title I created, which was supposed to be done week 4. Lucky for me I had already done this after our week 1 lecture, and it also happened to be the week that a graphic designer friend had introduced me to dafont.com and this is exactly where I got my blog banners' font from.

Brushes - Week 5

After completing this post after the week 5 lecture, my computer decided I was going to quit all applications and have a little sleep. I thought that I'd lost all of my weeks blog, until today when looking at up-loading images for my working journal for the first assessment. Alas! I came across drafts! So pleased I didn't need to go back and re-write the week 5 summary, and I am no longer on blogger hiatus! (Lea, please note this was actually written after week 5, but my blogger frustration got the better of me)


This week Lea spoke to us about downloading brushes and creating our own brushes and making a stencil from an image. The fist part of week 3's tutorial Lea talked us through creating our own graffiti/spray can effect using a found image. The image's we chose were black and white so that a strong contrast was allowed to set up a stencil. I selected my image and after eliminating the grey tones with the adjustment graph on PS, selected the area with the magic wand and spray painted it with the spray brush. The end result was a graffiti like image, as posted below.

The second part of the tutorial was about using an image, selecting it and creating your own brush tool that can be used just as the other brush tools that are already in PS, or have been downloaded. The image we created was a sequin that was made into a brush, with the image also posted below.

Brush selection tool

Stencil for graffiti effect

Watercolour brush tutorial (from my own image)

Our homework task of the tutorial was to download watercolour brushes and complete the outlined task. The most major issue I encountered in the task was the fact that we needed to download different brushes than those that were outlined, therefore making the instructions just slightly difficult to follow. But this allowed for more creative and individual result in the tasks outcome. The end result is posted above.

Week 3 - Some more Photoshop

Photomontage

Photoshop selection tool utilised, magic wand and additional selections removed/added with lasso tool.

Playing with photoshop in week 2

Scanning

Week two of DFC was the educating of the etiquette of scanning. 

Images required for glossy magazine print and commercial printing are scanned in at 300 dpi. 150-200 dpi is required for the use of home inkjet printers and 72-96 dpi for the use of images for web or email.

After issues with my HP scanner at home, I ventured to my neighbours very efficient scanner (brand unknown). After hitting scan on the machine itself, a window opened up on the the desktop. This offered me the option to scan an image or a document. As the homework task was to scan 7 objects and textiles, I figured that these scans would be more appropriately scanned as images. Scanning as a document is specifically for mostly textual information. 

Below is a screen shot of 'Save for web and devices' on photoshop. When saving in this method, it gives the publisher the ability to optimise the image for publication on the web (best at 72dpi).

the 4 images of the scarf below are at 4 different qualities available to save at. There are obvious quality differences between the original sized image to the lowest quality (15).

There is also the option here to save as .jpeg, .gif and .png files. 

Below are the images scanned in on 300dpi, then optimised for publishing on the web, by being reduced to 72dpi.