falling away

one week left of this madness.

i like running.

i also like this tree.

it loves.

farbic swatchessszzzzzz

tools for fabric swatches:
-hole punch
-stanley knife
-cutting mat A3
-masking tape/sticky tape
-double sided tape
-ring
-ruler
-scissors
-ironed fabric
-pins
-headers/cardboard

must have/be:
-header
-what it is/fibre
-care information
-same size
-neat

rendering and shizz

-save new image, different to working file
-menu, merge layers, fabric and dds
-trash fabric

dodging-lighter-black lollipop
burning-darker-belissimo hands

always have block colour on bottom - skin colour for range/figure drawing, on a new layer, inverse selection of dds space
edit - fill
after, merge layers

you can then cut and separate front and back using cut and paste onto different layers.

control and hover - shows you what layer you are on.

give it a drop shadow - layer, layer style, drop shadow

i type all of this, but i dont really know what it means.

range boards

-make DDS main focus of boards
-amy is kinda weird
-plain singlets on top
-first board with all 5 skirts

ORGANISING ELEMENTS
-all elements apply to graphic design (line, shape, direction, size, colour, texture)
-determine visual character
-text, graphics, etc

GROUNDING
-something to pull it all together e.g. a line

COLOUR
-a mid-grey background can do wonders for legibility
-no blue, preferably, its a funny colour
-consider colour of text
-never use blue for text, EVER


boards need to have one common redeeming feature, they need to be consistent
6 boards, visual diary, fabric feelers

each board: DDS, range drawing, description, style number and name

take me out tonighttttt

so have been really slack with blogging - but i have to say that uni takes up a crap load of my time.
have been crazy with assignements, the latest one being concept boards for "architectonic".

3 things i have learnt from this assignment:

1. you have to be extremely proactive, find out what you have to do, its not like school where you are fed the information - DAMN!

2. Time is the key. Be extremely organised with time, which is not my strong suit, but i guess I'll have to work on it if i want to be in fashion!

3. I'm not as bad at photoshop as i originally thought - it's not that hard to pick up. I just dont want to have to learn to use anything else. photoshop is enough!

Will post some pictures of my boards when i have my usb handy.

p.s. near death experience last night. scary.

scanning

how to scan:
1. place item onto scanner
2. select computer
3. select program to scan to - i selected hp scanning centre
4. press scan
5. name and save to file

DESCREEN
descreening reduces undesirable patterns - such as moire patterns, making the image clearer. my scanner doesn't have a descreen on the actual scanner but when you play around with the scanning program that is where you can change the resolution and descreen.

this image is scanned at 150dpi with descreen off.



















this image is scanned at 150dpi with descreen on. i actually found that there wasnt much difference at all, which probably means that the scanner has a built in descreen.



















RESOLUTION

this image is 72dpi, and is less focused and sharp than the other 2 images.





















this image is 150dpi.



















i didn't have the option of 360dpi so this image is only 300dpi which is probably why there isn't as much difference between the 150-300dpi images.

ILLUSTRATION AND FABRIC SCAN

To scan in my fabric i used a 360dpi, to hopefully pick up more of the colour and make the image clearer.

To scan in my illustration, i only used 150dpi because it is only black and white and simple line drawings not a colour image.

and now i plan to never scan anything ever again!

photoshop is NOT fun

so for the last few weeks we have been learning how to use photoshop,

learning techniques like:

-layering

-text

-shadow

-pen tool (DIE!)

and to be honest i dont think i will ever warm to photoshop.

but - the importance of layers
layers mean that everything is in order and that the images that should appear behind figures or foreground images appear in the background, not blocking out anything.

but here are a few images where the layers are mixed up:

this last image is the real one with all the layers in order. as you can see form the above 2 - when the layers arent in order the picture is ruined and images are blocked out.

welcome to my life

enjoying another week at uni, i love only studying what i want!

but here are my two favourite blogs...

1. Drowning Clouds - this is a shared blog between a friend and i and i love it because it is all our inspiration over the last year and a bit. everything from the pieces we love, people we wish we knew, to what we did on the weekend, to how we feel, to our favourite food, to photos that show how we feel at that exact moment. A collection of our "fashion lives".

2. Nat The Bat - i visit this blog pretty much daily, such good taste in fashion, music and life. i particularly love the music posts she does. her taste in fashion is inasne and she always has the coolest most amazing photos - of herself and her friends and just random things.

-gee

an old cat

so im not a newbie in the blogging world - quite the veteran actually.

but this is the first post for geekaydee. enjoy, although it will probably contain things that may bore or confuse you i.e. class notes etc. but it is all about fashion and art and design.

- gee