Digital Printing: Photoshop

     This week, my group has been assigned to carry out a mini digital print workshop using all different methods and techniques. Today however, we mostly focused on the basics of photoshop and how we could use them to manipulate or enhance an image, whether that be cropping, colour changes, scale and more! Personally, I really like working with prints digitally and I have always been inspired by designers, Timorous Beasties and Mary Katranzu. Despite this, I still really like the rusticity of doing the prints by hand, but it is very useful to have the knowledge of digital printing incase I don't have as much time or if the print needs to be very precise. Moreover, I have previously had experience working with photoshop with some of my previous projects in 6th form and really took a shine to them, but it always seems as if you forget the basics very quickly, hence I took a lot of notes from Dan today! Below are some examples of which I created myself.

      Above are some of the works I did today. In particular these flowers were downloaded from a file Dan showed us and we learned many quick and easy ways to crop or select a part of an image without taking too long or trying to be too neat with it, which I never knew before. (I always had to do it the hard way!!) Nonetheless, I played around with the pattern styles and colourisation and really liked the effects they gave off because they make it look a lot more interesting and as a print, I think it works pretty well. If I could change anything, I would have liked to have done something a bit more advanced, however I think the pace we were going at helped me to pick up on more things, rather than rushing and not understanding properly. Also, I can really see how this process of digital printing is going to be heavily involved in future garments and trends because the possibilities are endless and it is much easier to get the print to an impeccable standard. 

   

    Last but not least, we also learned how to carry out a repeat pattern process which works very effectively as a design because it can be used for a lot of fabric, which could be put on a whole garment, rather than just a segment. On top of this, I learnt how to be very specific with my layering processes, which then helped me to carry out other processes, such as colour blocking, changing shapes, rotation, drawing and much more. So overall, I thought today was very productive and I can't wait to see the final result for everyones prints.