Applied Surface Design Using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop Short Course
Course description
Course overview
This course will look at the powerful capabilities of using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop when making patterns and repeats. This course is for individuals who already have experience of using Illustrator and Photoshop - if you are new to either program, please look at our beginners' courses.
Both photoshop and illustrator have incredibly powerful and accurate tools that allow the creation of seamless linear and area repeats. You will learn to make these repeats as blocks and brushes, take existing patterns and rebuild them, deconstruct and analyse repeats.
Who this course is for
The skills of making patterns and repeats are essential for anyone working in the applied arts, such as product designers, fashion and textile designers and production ceramicists. This course is suitable for anyone who needs to create accurate patterns which will then be printed/applied to a surface.
This is an intermediate-level course. You need to have experience of using both Photoshop and Illustrator and are interested in taking your skills to a new level. You will need to be familiar with working with multiple layers, and all the basic colour correction and retouching tools in Photoshop, and in Illustrator, you need to be familiar with building shapes and using many of the drawing tools
Key information
Topics covered
- Creating seamless repeats in Illustrator and Photoshop
- Testing then exporting a single block that can be used by a third party
- The brushes and their capability within Illustrator, especially pattern brushes made from several pattern tiles
- Testing patterns and creating several scales and colourways
- Accurate geometric patterns
- Accurate circular patterns
- Half drop, third drop vertical and horizontal patterns
- Seamless patterns in Photoshop
- Copying an existing pattern and adapting to different uses
- Using tools to create simple colour palettes and applying this to patterns
- Preparing files for export and printing
Learning outcomes
- Identify how to create a seamless repeat strip and block in Photoshop
- Create a geometric seamless repeat in Illustrator
- Recognise how block/half drop repeats in both Illustrator and Photoshop can be created accurately and modified
- Create global colours that can work seamlessly between both software
- Create patterns in Illustrator that can be used/modified and applied in Photoshop
- Design elements in Photoshop that can be used/modified and applied in Illustrator
- Create Illustrations using these designs
- Receive a digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
You will be provided with images to work from initially, but please bring images sketches and other visual materials that you can work from during the course once initial tasks are completed
Please bring to the first session:
- Notebook
- Pen
- USB stick or access to equivalent cloud storage
If you are joining us on campus, this course will be taught in a Mac suite with 3 button mice. If you have a tablet (Wacom or other) you are welcome to use this with your own laptop. Tablets cannot be used with the UAL computers. Please note - UAL cannot provide technical support for personal devices.
IMPORTANT - Adobe ID Login for Short Course Students
Students will need to create an account with Adobe (unless you already have one) to access the Adobe suite at the college; instructions are included below. You will need to use a personal email address to create this. If you already have an account with Adobe, please make sure you bring your login details with you on the first day of the course.
Creating an Adobe account is free
The software will only be accessible when logged into a UAL networked computer
The same account can be used outside of the University, but software will only be accessible through a personal paid subscription that students will need to set up independently
You can still create an account on the day but doing this beforehand will save time and avoid delays to the start of the class
If you already have an Adobe ID/ subscription you can use this on your short course rather than setting up a new account
Please see our Guide to taking online short courses.
Tutor
Suky Best
Suky Best is a fine artist who works with print, video and animation. She uses digital technology to extend and develop her work. She works freelance in the print industry and has a wide knowledge of software and its industrial application. For examples of her artistic practice, www.sukybest.com
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