Creating Botanical Patterns from a Drawing
Tips on printing
A course by Giulia Tosi , Designer and Artisan
About the video: Tips on printing
Overview
“Before sending a file to print we must be careful about the format we choose: different printing methods require different formats.”
In this video lesson Giulia Tosi addresses the topic: Tips on printing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Botanical Patterns from a Drawing. Learn how to make a botanical pattern that captures your perspective of nature by drawing, painting, and duplicating illustrations in Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“Tips on printing In this lesson I will explain which are the most classic formats to save the files and which ones are best suited for printing. A very interesting format is the PNG format. Let's take, for example, our initial drawing, the mandarins, where I see that I have the drawing without the background. In this case, I have saved a PSD format. I might find it useful to save it in an image format, then with an PNG. I say PNG because the PNG allows me to keep the image without the background. In this way, I will have a free background file, that I can reuse for other functions, I will b...”
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Course summary for: Creating Botanical Patterns from a Drawing
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Botanical Illustration, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration

Giulia Tosi
A course by Giulia Tosi
Giulia Tosi is a designer and artisan from Verona, Italy. She is founder of the brand Insunsit, which means "nowhere" in the Mantuan dialect. Her style is characterized by the freedom to not choose any one fixed path. Giulia works with a range of materials and her creations are constantly evolving.
After studying History of Art at university, she spent some years working as a bookseller and developing her personal project on the side. She went on to travel around Italy, selling her creations at various markets before opening her online shop and setting herself up in a shared studio in Verona. It is here that she currently works, exhibits her pieces, and receives visitors.
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