17
Jan
Great new courses already available to my all access members
My website currently only advertises and shows access to 6 courses, but all access members can access 2 more (8 full courses total).
Both of these assume that you already worked your way through the beginner courses and are ready to progress to the next level. Read more17
Oct
Color names and codes for Illustrator and Photoshop – Quick video tip
Watch this video to learn to find quick inspiration for color names for you new color swatches that you are using in your line sheets, mood and trend boards for new fashion collections. Read more
30
Sep
How long have you been using Photoshop? And for what? Fashion design, textiles or apparel graphics?
Last year was Photoshop’s 20th birthday.
During Adobe Max’s 2010 conference I was able to explore and take some pictures of the evolution of the Photoshop software since it’s very first version. Read more 
20
Sep
Seamless pattern in Illustrator tutorial on youtube
Click here to check out this new social profile website.While there watch your seamless video tutorial by clicking on the youtube icon
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About.me is a website which hold as many of your social profiles in one place I am testing it out these days and you can too.. leave your about.me page in the comment Read more
21
May
Beginner Illustrator and beginner Photoshop training – non fashion design
Read more about the upcoming beginner intensives with video access (special pricing).
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2
May
Free Friday Mini Fashion Webinar- Flat sketches and fabrics in Photshop
Do your hand sketches look great and you do not want to use the computer to draw them because you are quickly done doing it with traditional pencil and paper?
You can have the best of both the hand sketched fashion flats and using Photoshop for bringing the fabrics inside.
Join me for a quick free webinar covering the 3 different ways that you need to know to put textiles, fabrics into flat sketches inside of Photoshop CS5 Read more
8
Mar
Fashion Flat sketch combining Illustrator and Photoshop skills
Last week during a live Intermediate to advanced Photoshop webinar I taught how to combine scanned images of scanned paint splatters with a heart symbol. I defined a brush from the splattered heart. I then created a path of a heart in and a used the splattered heart brush along this new heart. The result of this was a new Heart with big and small hearts rotated along the heart shape. This was then defined as a new brush that I used to draw a graphic with. Read more
17
Feb
Safari inspired with free ai/ jpg download
This morning I went over to Mpdclick.com and checked out their latest free trend magazine.
On page 11 they feature British-Nigerian Fashion designer Brian Gathii whose high end appliques are handcrafted with materials ranging from cork, leather to Swarovski crystals using beautiful African symbols. You can read download the mag by clicking here. Read more
13
Jan
Photoshop and Illustrator for Fashion
Every now and then I receive an email with CADs* from someone who used my video training. I always appreciate it especially when I have never had the chance to meet the individual in person. These sketches came with this nice little note: “Hi Ludmila, Attached are some CADs* I sketched utilizing Photoshop and Illustrator. I sketch my initial bodies in Illustrator and then I fill the print in Photoshop. The print was taken from a scarf I bought which had a nice border. I have been sketching pretty much daily lately and with your help and the help of good friends I have come a long way. I just wanted to say thanks! Later today I will email you another few CADs* which are coming out nicely and they have more depth than these. Talk to you soon, Kent Daniel ” Well, I asked Kent for permission to post his sketches and he said yes. So thank you Kent for letting me share them here:
Look closely at the jeweled trim that can be cleaned up in Photoshop to use along the flat sketch to give it more depth. Using Photoshop to clean up the scan of the textile (taken from a scarf) then putting it inside a clean Illustrator flat sketch.
Feel free to leave Kent a comment about his work.
Feel like sharing your sketches with me?
Join our group on Facebook here and upload them.
*Computer aided designs not to be confused with the program CAD23
May
Creating a Fashion Collage in Photoshop – Video Tutorial beginner level
A fun little exercise that I give my beginning Photoshop Fashion Students is to pick their favorite designer and city and create a Fashion Collage based on those two research topics.
For the example in the picture and the video below I choose MaxMara and Paris. If you are new to using Photoshop this should be a great practice session. Simply go through
* magazines (scan at 150 dpi/ jpg) or
* websites(right click/ ctrl click for mac and save image as> onto desktop)
and find great images that you would like to mash up in Photoshop. The images should be saved as jpgs in a folder somewhere easy for you to remember, like your desktop.
The video is split into two segments just under 10 minutes each. They are a quick summary of what I had to do from start to finish to create the Collage. Obviously your images will be different, but you will see how easy it is to sort of draw selections on any image if you practice the polygonal lasso tool, or select high contrasting backgrounds with the use of the magic wand tool.
You need to know the shortcut for free transform: ctrl+T for PC or cmd+ T for MAC
Create Fashion Collage in Photoshop part 1 of 2 Runtime: 07:16
Create Fashion Collage in Photoshop part 2 of 2 Runtime: 08:57
