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Digital Textile And Surface Pattern Design

TWO DAY COURSE: Tue 5 & Wed 6 Nov

SESSION DATES:

• Tue 5 Nov: 10am – 5pm
• Wed 6 Nov: 10am – 5pm

This course is an introduction to using Photoshop to explore textile and surface pattern ideas through to a finished printable digital format.

Design your own beautiful and creative patterns from any source of inspiration and turn it into a document that you will be able to get ready for printing onto any surface or textile.

The course content covers, but is not limited to:

• Creating documents
• Saving documents in preparation for printing
• Creating shapes
• Using the colour tool
• Transformation of shapes
• Layer transparency
• Layer masks
• Finalizing designs
• Defining patterns for fills

Images will be provided to work from during the course. Please bring a notebook and pen and a USB stick to save your work on after the course.

This course requires some basic computer literacy, if you’re unsure then please contact us before booking by emailing: digital@localhost

This course is the ideal next step for anyone who has already attended our Pattern Design for Art, Fashion and Textiles course at Exeter Phoenix.

Workshop attendees get 10% off all food and hot drinks at the Café Bar.

TUTOR

Lesley Goss BA Hons, PGDip CADCAM

 Lesley studied BA Fashion/Textiles at Birmingham Polytechnic designing and printing fashion fabrics, T-shirts and hand painting silk scarves. Following that with a Post Graduate Diploma from Staffordshire University in Computer Aided Design and Manufacture.

 More recently she became interested in using a combination of her mixed media drawings, photography and digital art in her textile designs, to create interesting design layers for surface pattern.

VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX, DIGITAL WORKSHOP