HotHive Textiles Bookstore Stocks Revolutionary Textile Design Book

Article Added: 07/01/2009
HotHive Textiles is very excited to announce that we have just started stocking a fabulous American book that has been revolutionising textile design in the US. Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design was written by Frederick L Chipkin, a designer with many years’ experience using Adobe Photoshop for textile design.
In the book you will learn step by step techniques for creating colour combinations, colour reduction, repeats, tonal watercolour designs and simple woven effects for textiles using Adobe Photoshop. The book also includes a CD with Colour charts and practice images.

The book is a collection of lessons that progress from simple everyday techniques and settings to more advanced techniques that will enable the designer to tackle the most challenging design work. Everything is explained in a simple uniform manner so that nothing is overwhelming to the textile designer just learning computer aided design – and so that the more experienced designer can grasp key concepts more quickly.

The CD contains practice images that correspond to the lessons in the book. These include weaves, textile images to colour reduce, bodies and objects to photo drape textiles on and 36 pages of colour charts so that you can match colours accurately. More then just a tutorial Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design is a complete learning system.

But don’t take our word for it – here’s what a few people who brought the book have to say:

“This book was too good to be true. It is so well written in plain English and explained everything, step by step. I highly recommend this book, especially since you can learn at your own pace and refer back easily. I've taken classes, but you get hit with so much information at one time it's difficult to absorb so much and than remember the how to apply it.”

“After you read just couple of chapters of this book you will immediately see that Mr. Chipkin is such an expert both in the textile design and PhotoShop and he knows exactly what he is talking about. I truly believe that anyone who is in the field and wants to approve the CAD textile design skills, should seriously consider to have this book in his or her design studio library, and I found this book indispensable and well worth the money I spent on it.”

“This book contains a wealth of information and techniques that allow the artist to become highly proficient in design creation and processing. The book is a versatile tool; providing the expertise for both the student and the instructor. I have sampled a number of similar books over the years, and I say that I find Mr. Chipkin's book probably the best in the field. I strongly recommend Mr. Chipkin's book to textile design professional, as well as those just entering the field.”

Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design is available for both CS3 priced at £57.99 and for CS4 priced at £79.99. For more information or to order the book please click here.