Feb7
Adobe Illustrator is the the industry-leader for creating vector artwork and is used by illustration professionals the world over. The program is also used widely in the fashion industry, from creating initial concept artwork to producing finished pattern line art for exporting to CAD software. Illustrator is also used to construct storyboards with colourways and repeat prints. And it can... Read more...
Feb7
Adobe Photoshop is the the industry-leader in image-editing software used by professionals the world over. The program is also used widely in the fashion industry, from adjusting photo shoots to preparing storyboards and artwork for published brochures or websites. In our specially customized Photoshop for Fashion course we will help you explore the main features of the program, as well... Read more...
Feb1
A component is like a bit like a block in Autocad and is a great time-saving feature of the program. You can create a component from any geometry created in SketchUp, and it’s used for any repeatable items like doors, windows, machine parts, anything that you use on a regular basis and don’t want to construct each time. We show... Read more...
Feb1
Animation in the Autocad 3d environment is a straight-forward process of adding cameras to your model, animating them on a path, and rendering out a series of still images which are then automatically played as a simple movie in Windows Media Player or QuickTime (Mac). This is a great way of presenting a product to a client and can be... Read more...
Jan31
Isometric drawings in Autocad have largely been superseded by the 3d functionality of the program, which has been around for the best part of ten years now. However, it’s still sometimes necessary to draw a simple isometric drawing for a machine part to give a client an idea of how the object looks in three dimensions. Isometric drawings are also... Read more...
Jan31
Cutting out backgrounds in Photoshop is pretty straight-forward. This is known as deep etching in the printing industry, and is used where you want to extract an item like a logo or a human head from its background, to be placed onto a web banner or a header or footer. This is one of the many functions we explore in... Read more...
Jan31
On larger multi-page documents it’s a good idea to create a Table of Contents – this is very easy in Indesign and is one of the many functions we cover in our Indesign courses. We do so using the Paragraph Styles feature. A bit of planning is required when setting up the document. Basically anything you want to appear in... Read more...
Jan31
Illustrator Live Trace is a quick and easy function to perform when you want to convert a bitmap image to vector format, and can be used to clean up low resolution images or logos. It is one of the many features we explore in our one or two-day Illustrator classes. First of all, create a new document. Then Place your... Read more...
Jan25
Sometimes you may want to add a background to your Sketchup model in order to see it within a particular environment, or to give it a photo-realistic look. This is one of the many functions we explore in our SketchUp courses. You can add image files to your model and adjust their position so that your model blends with its... Read more...
Jan24
Whilst Autocad has been around since 1982 as a 2d drafting program, its 3d capabilities were only introduced in 1992 as a plugin for the R12 release of Autocad. In the last 20 years of development however, the Autocad 3d functionality has come a long way, making the program the world-leader in drafting and modeling. The Autocad’s 3d engine is... Read more...
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