Course Title: Apply electronic systems to textile design and production
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2010
Course Code: ISYS5658C
Course Title: Apply electronic systems to textile design and production
School: 350T Fashion & Textiles
Campus: Brunswick Campus
Program: C6086 - Advanced Diploma of Fashion and Textiles Merchandising
Course Contact : Russell Edis
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 99259496
Course Contact Email:russell.edis@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Janette Wotherspoon
Russell Edis
Nominal Hours: 80
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Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
Use Electronic Fashion Design Tools GRAP5212C
Course Description
This unit covers the skills and knowledge to apply electronic systems to textile design and production processes
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
LMTTD6002A Apply electronic systems to textile design and production |
Element: |
1. Interpret textile design brief |
Performance Criteria: |
1Interpret textile design brief |
Learning Outcomes
Details of Learning Activities
Use Illustrator to constructs technical fashion drawings of garments for specification sheets.
Use Photoshop to develop mood boards for presentations
Problem solving.
Use on-line resources to research.
Teaching Schedule
1 Research week for YEP
2 Illustrator
Preference settings adjusted for keyboard increments to improve efficiency when using Illustrator.
Customise the workspace settings
Construction of technical drawings, identification of the basic element, stitch, darts and garment components. Creating templates Tracing Images.
Apply Colour
Saving an image for export to TIFF, JPG, PDF export. Save high resolution for export to specification sheets. Compare resolutions for sharpness and clarity.
Draw
Create collars with stands
Create sleeves
Create folded sleeve for back view
Pants and skirt blocks
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,2.2, 3.1, 4.4
3 Illustrator - Creating and Drawing
Using the Pathfinder tools divide, trim, merge and crop objects.
Arranging objects, changing the order, rotating objects.
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,2.2, 3.1
4 Using the Pen Tool, working with control point
Using text to create the effect of stitching.
Using Live Trace 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,2.2, 3.1
5 Fashion week
6 Illustrator – Typography
Working with Text. Fitting text to a path and typing text around a circle.
Swing Tags, and garment care labels
Illustrator - Using text to create the effect of stitching.
Swing Tags, and garment care labels.
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,2.2, 3.1, 4.4
7 Illustrator - Working with Swatches and Brushes.
Brushes Three tiled brushes
Apply “lace effect to garments”
Foundation Garments Exercise
2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 4.3
8 Illustrator - Working with Swatches and Brushes.
Brushes Three tiled brushes
2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 4.3
9 Illustrator - Working with Swatches and Brushes.
Brushes Three tiled brushes
2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 4.3
10 PhotoShop - Working with bitmap images
Image fundamentals.
“Girl at Vatican”
Adjustments, Hue and Saturation, Brightness and Contrasts,
Selection tools to capture elements on a picture. Adding or Subtracting to a selection..
Exercise: Create pixelated image for knitting of sock.
Using online Help
Using Layers
Create, Save and load selections.
Modify the Image size and file size.
PhotoShop - Working with selections continued.
Selection with feather effect., create examples showing the effect of changing the feather calibration to produce feather edge.
Adobe Bridge to manage files.
Image fundamentals revisited. Working with selections
Batch Renaming
Applying Keywords
Sorting and Selecting
3.1, 3.2, 3.3
11 Transforming an image, change size, creating a poster size image. Identify the limitations.
Resize with the Crop Tool to decrease and increase image size.
Transforming the resolution of an image.
3.1, 3.2, 3.3.
12 Working with layers
Image Repair exercise using Clone, Healing and Patch Tools
Exercise -“Repair Lorne Photograph”, “Remove Wrinkles”
Exercise – Pattern exercise images sent to PowerPoint file.
3.1, 3.2, 3.3
13 Vanishing Point .
Image Warp - create packaging mock-ups or other dimensional effects by wrapping an image around
any shape or stretching, curling, and bending an image using Image Warp
3.1, 3.2, 3.3
14 Create and Apply Patterns to images.
PhotoShop -Using Filters and Image Adjustments
Filter and Image Adjustment Exercise.
4..1, 4.2, 4.3
15 Preparing Images for the Web, presentations Optimising images.
Exercise: Use the Paths pallet. Export path to Illustrator for manipulation. Apply task to bitmap text and other images where pixilation prevents image being used in mood board. The path images should be, changed in size, have distortions applied to create perspective.
Colour management, Pantone Colours. Creating and applying patterns
Creating Mood Boards
Exercise: Montages.
Exercise: Apply pattern to image. Use Pattern3 and fashion Image 229
Creating and using simple Actions to enhance efficiency. Saving and Loading Actions
Actions Exercise to create a set of often used functions. Insert menu breaks.
5.1, 5.2, 5.3
16 Graphics Quiz Illustrator and Photoshop
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Overview of Assessment
Graphics Quiz Illustrator and Photoshop
Assessment Tasks
Graphics Quiz Illustrator and Photoshop 100%
Assessment Matrix
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