Block Printing and Digital Pattern Design
Scan and organize
A course by Marta Afonso , Textile Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Scan and organize
Overview
“Here I will explain to you how, after digitization, I prepare the elements that will compose the patterns, namely, the printing of the stamps.”
In this video lesson Marta Afonso addresses the topic: Scan and organize, which is part of the Domestika online course: Block Printing and Digital Pattern Design. Discover manual stamping techniques that bring fabrics to life and create an original digital collection of patterns.
Partial transcription of the video
“Digitizing and Organizing We'll now digitize stamp prints and work on them on Photoshop so the files are ready for us to create our patterns. If you don't have a scanner, you can use your phone, but the resolution has to be good so that we don't lose the texture. Let's go. I digitized at 300 DPI so we preserve the textures. This is stamp 1, the most simple one we made. I'm going to choose one to work on. First, I'll rotate the image. I'll choose this one. I'm going to crop the image, as we don't need the other one. We won't crop it completely, just as much as we can. I press Enter. We're go...”
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Course summary for: Block Printing and Digital Pattern Design
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Fashion Design, Pattern Design, Printing, Textile Printing, Traditional illustration

Marta Afonso
A course by Marta Afonso
From an early age, Portuguese designer Marta Afonso was inspired by her grandmother's mastery of thread and needle and grew up fascinated by the textile world and its creative possibilities.
In 2015, Marta decided to combine her background in pattern/dressmaking and lino/woodcutting with her professional experience in graphic design to create Atelier Karaka, a studio specializing in manual fabric stamping, pattern design, and illustration.
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