Digital Embroidery

Digital embroidery is used in the industry for stitching names, company logos and embroidery patterns on garments. Designs can be put into a computer, which are then transferred to industrial sewing machines that will sew the design on to the chosen garment within minutes, even seconds without having to have any help from a member of staff, the only thing they have to do is put the garment into the machine and take it out.

Quality

Quality of images is all about the size and percentages of the image.
When using Photoshop and Illustrator.

Photoshop works using pixels and light to create an image where as illustrator uses vectors. Photoshop allows you to be free with the art work that you create as you have a lot of freedom where as because illustrator uses vectors it restricts you as to how much you can do, however if photoshop images are enlarged they can lose their quality. too the point that the image is hardly recognisable like this; 
Illustrator isn't for creative art work, but it is excellent for professionals such as architects, for when they are creating building designs, because the use of vectors allows the to be able to enlarge images so that they can focus on one area of an image without it being blurred. It allows them to work at a much larger scale and in far more detail.
When you are using computer programs like Photoshop you need to be careful and have a full understanding of what you need from an image such as the quality of the image you need for what you are doing with it. For instance is you are printing an image the quality of the image should be set to 300 DPI (dots per inch). That allows 300 dots of light per inch in the image that are in a straight line. However if you are using an image for the web then you need the quality of the image to be set to 72 DPI (dots per inch). This is because you don't want the image to be too large as it will take up too much memory as it would be a large file, and it also allows the image to load quickly, as the larger the image the longer it takes to load.

 resolution, however when an image in on the web is should on be 72% resolution.

It is also all about colour, for example you have

RGB which is on the screen it is used in photoshop, as the colours mixed together create light (white), which are the colours RED, GREEN and BLUE

CMYK, these are the colours used when printing, they are the colours, CYAN, MAGENTA, YELLOW, BLACK. Together they make black.

Fashion Realisation

These were created on illustrator. I created the basic dress using a template and I then added sleeves to play around with how the dress could look. I then played around with altering the size of the illustration that I had created on illustrator, using different sized brushes.

To create the dress: Dress design, select the chosen lines, press O, click on guide
Hold Alt, click on the centre line, swing out the design to the centre line, press shift to position it as an exact mirroring to the original half of the dress, let go of everything TOGETHER.

White arrow, select end nodes, hold CMD J to join all of the lines together as one piece.
Group together, hold CMD C, CMD V
Click dress, press S, press ENTER, this allows you to change to scale of the image you want to be imported onto your dress design.

 

This is what I created on illustrator using the brush tool, using different sizes and opacity to get the shape of her face an her features. I decided to look at creating a face as it is one of my weak points as I can never get it into proportion. However I am very happy with this and I like the effect i get from using the red as a back ground.

Hardware

CAD - Computer aided design.

this is used to create designs on computers allowing the production of clothes to be far more accurate and economical. it allows designs to be changed or modified within seconds. You can use it to produce a design for one season of clothing and if it was a best seller, then the design could be altered for the next season within seconds.

CAM - Computer aided manufacture.

This can be used from basic patterns, that can be exchanged from paper onto the computer, so that everything is precise to the milimetre.


Laser Cutting -

technology used for cutting materials such a wood, fabric, acrylic and many others. It is used by concentrated lasers that can be used to cut out shapes of patterns in materials or engrave into materials. I cannot be used to cut metal or hard materials, it can only be used for enscribing.

Fashion Graduate Week

This is the winner of the Gold Award at Graduate Fashion Week 2014. Bath Spa University's Grace Weller.


On Monday 2nd June we took a trip up to London to visit Fashion Graduate Week, where we got to see all of the available fashion universities and cat walks of clothing that this year university graduates had created.

photoshopped free machineing

I created this image by scanning in some free machine embroidery that I had created and using Photoshop to manipulate and create a new version. Using un-life like colours, bright and bold colours for the garments and not giving the models facial features. When using photoshop it is all about layers, that have lists, pixels and bitmaps that make up the images that you create.

This is a free machining sample that I created using an embroidery machine to use as one of my final three images in my project. I created the patterns and textures by using different stitches, and playing around with the width of the stitches. I decided to use the bright colours to make a statement against the black fabric, because it speaks for itself.

Cartoonisation

I used Photoshop to create a cartoon version of this puppy, to look at how images can be changed. I used the basic brush tool, but I played around with the opacity and tones of colour, so see what effects I could create just by using colours. I decided to use this image as I was reasonably simple, as I am not that confident with how adventurous to be using Photoshop. I based the cartoon version from what I have seen on children's programmes, advertisement and the media. Overall I think the outcome was creative and workable, but I could still play around with some other elements to see what effect that would have on the image.

Photoshopping Image. http://opiniondemymy.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/photoshop-jessica-alba-avantapres.html

Photo shopping image.
This was a shoot that was done with Jessica Alba. The left hand image is the original and the image on the right is the one that has been photo shopped. The original has been airbrushed, had colour changes and they have slimmed down her figure and taken the creases out from her groin area. The other thing I have noticed is that in the original she is looking to the right, but in the photo shopped version she is starring directly into the camera. They have also defined her breasts and cleavage. They have defined all of her bones, including her collar, neck and shoulder. They have taken away the muscle on her right leg, to give her a slimmer, sleeker, more defined figure. 

Through out the whole fashion industry, all of the images we find in magazines, blogs, newspapers and throughout the Internet. All young girls are now seeing fashion models and celebrities as tall, slim, perfect skin, long, shiny, sleek hair. It is showing young girls, that we should all look the same, and that we need to wear lots of make up, and wear skin tight clothes, and have to be a size 8/10. That it is also not the done ting to be a curvatious girl. I personally think it is wrong as I believe we are all our own person. NO ONE IS PERFECT!

Playing around in Photoshop

I created this on Photoshop using the brush tool. I used different effects including water colour, ink, and normal paint. I created this by using an image. and using the effects to re-create this image. This image is on my blog under the name, 'Water Colour, Fashion Illustration'.

Marguerite Sauvage, Animated Fashion Illustration

  Marguerite Sauvage

The use of animals and fashion together, with the use of different generations. The way she has created this image through animation I love, as it is far from the conventional way of illustrating clothing. I also like the use of different generations that she has used as it shows variation. The use of vibrant colours also works very well because they are what I would associate with 'safari' colours, which inter winds with the animal heads.

Water Colour, Fashion Illustration

I love this way of illustrating fashion, because it isn’t just the normal way, of a template figure, with the outfit illustrated on to it, it is making the figure, outfit and all of the other components together in one image. I also love the use of the water colours as it gives it a feeling of freedom, originality and tranquillity. This is because the colours flow into one another creating curved lines and organic shapes with a balance between the colours. 

The red, purples, oranges and browns mixing together and flowing down into greys and blacks. The yellows, blues and blacks all mixing together. The colours are all complimentary of each other.

This fashion illustration was created by  Amelie Hegardt.

Using Illustrator

Illustrator is all about vectors, as that is how the images on the screen are made up.

I created this using the pen tool on illustrator, and I really enjoy using this tool once I got the hang of what I was doing, and it will become very useful when creating technical drawings and other thing for different aspects of the fashion course, the use of being able to create two simple shapes and then being able to take away different sections of the shape to create completely different shapes, to be able to design and create what you want. I can use the pen tool in all different ways now that I know how to use it and what different things I can do and create with it.

Swing Tag No.4

This swing tag has the elements of being very busy and yet simple at the same time with the use of the font of the text and the use of just a single placement of the name, in a big font. I personally like the background as it has an element of nature with the peacock’s feathers. But it is also fun and quirky. I could see this tag being used in many high street shops, or independent shops, I couldn’t see it being used in high end shops such as Chanel or Dior though, as it doesn’t have that slight edge of class and elegance.

Swing Tag No.3

This swing tag is my least favourite as there is way to much going on with the design. The use of a background, and then shapes on top of the background, which has then had the name placed on top of that, many times, which does in fact make a statement, but it is too busy, I like things to be plain and simple. Less is always more. I could see this tag being used in a vintage shop or weird and wonderful boutique, that sell all kinds of crazy clothing, for the people that have their own fashion statements.