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.