Monthly Archives: October 2016

Learn textile design at DF School

Here at Digital Fabrics over the past few months, we have been testing the education waters by offering some workshops aimed at engaging our customers in the digital printing process, handing over some required designing skills and getting excited about the results from our students. We were so excited that we’ve decided to continue with our DF School offerings and are looking forward to seeing the creations that come out of it!

First class off and running starts this week Thursday, there’s no time to think just do it! Idea to Reality is a four week evening class designed to take you through the fundamentals of what digital printing is and how to develop your artwork into a seamless repeat, ready to be printed for meters and meters. Have you got a design idea burning a hole in your sketchbook? Do you want your very own custom designed and printed fabric for that one of a kind dress? Head on over to our website now to book your spot in our Idea to Reality class!

Next in line there is a one day workshop perfect for Photoshop newbies. Textile Design for Photoshop Beginners will walk you through the basic applications in the Adobe Photoshop program, like where the move tool is and what the magic wand tool can do, before going through some simple repeat set ups that will have you designing your own fabric prints in no time. Ideal for those with little to no experience in Adobe Photoshop, Textile Design for Photoshop Beginners on November 5 is now open for bookings!

If you’ve had a bit of experience working in Photoshop and have been dreaming of your own cushion prints or yoga leggings or even a statement scarf, Design Your Own Product is the workshop for you! Immerse yourself in this one day class focusing on the manipulation options in Photoshop and using these to develop a placement print. With the added option of having your product printed, how can you go past the Design Your Own Product workshop on December 3.

Whichever class you choose, we can’t wait to see you there, share our digital printing insight and be amazed at your creations.

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5 Prints for People Who Love Cats | #printsinfashion

Last week’s Halloween Print Fabric giveaway made us clear that you guys love cats! The cat print was the most chosen print which is why we wanted to delight you with more fun prints for people who love cats. And what’s not to love? Both in real life and on print, cats are beautiful to look at and bring a fun factor.

Below you’ll find cat prints inspiration but don’t stop here. Create a design inspired by your favorite animal and print it on fabric, pillows or leggings. The possibilities are endless and Digital Fabrics helps you bring your creative ideas to life!

1. Black & White Cat Prints

Source: Pattern Blog

2. Sanderson Cats

Source: Vicke Lindstrand

3. Black Cat Pattern

Source: Mia Mandarina

4. FREE Black Cat Halloween Print

5. For My Cat Ladies

Download it here

Learn textile design at DF School

Whichever class you choose, we can’t wait to see you there, share our digital printing insight and be amazed at your creations.

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GIVEAWAY! Win Halloween Print Fabrics/Leggings

WIN! Halloween is around the corner and we want to celebrate with this week’s giveaway! Digital Fabrics prints all sorts of designs on fabric so we wanted to celebrate with Halloween print fabrics and 2 lucky winners will get 1m! OR we will print the Halloween print on matt lycra with leggings shape so the winner only needs to cut and create it.

You probably have several ideas in mind but maybe you don’t know where to start as you never designed a print. Digital Fabrics helps you bring your creative ideas to life and this week we used Picmonkey to make it happen.

The Halloween print designs were created by Jocelina Paixão Fortes, the creative behind the sewing & travel channel Pink Chocolate Break and webshop Paixão Fortes. She created these fun & spooky prints with Picmonkey.

“Picmonkey is a great tool to create unique designs with as they have custom layers and visuals for every festive occasion from Halloween to Valentine’s Day. I used the edit option and choose the Halloween prints available and pasted it on a white canvas.”

Now join us on Facebook & Instagram and win 2m of Halloween Print fabrics! The winner will be announced on Wednesday!

If you don’t win, don’t worry as these Halloween print fabric designs will be available in the DF fabric shop for purchase.

Good luck!

5 Prints for People Who Love Cats | #printsinfashion

1. Black & White Cat Prints

Source: Pattern Blog

2. Sanderson Cats

Source: Vicke Lindstrand

3. Black Cat Pattern

Source: Mia Mandarina

4. FREE Black Cat Halloween Print

5. For My Cat Ladies

Download it here

5 Animal Print Fabrics to DIY For | World Animal Day

Today it’s World Animal Day so we’re celebrating it with these colorful, animal print fabrics! Whether you love zebra print textiles or the classic leopard style, we have you covered!

Every year and season, animal prints seem to be omnipresent onto the runway and in the fashion scene. And let’s be honest, animal prints are always a good idea and 10 years from now you will still be wearing them.

We listed our favorite animal print fabrics below available in our Digital Fabrics shop. Let us know what you would DIY with it because our mission is to help you bring your creative ideas to life!

Leopard Print Fabric

Blue Snake Print Fabric

Wild Zebra Print Fabric

Zebra Stripes Fabric

GIVEAWAY! Win Halloween Print Fabrics/Leggings

Now join us on Facebook & Instagram and win 2m of Halloween Print fabrics! The winner will be announced on Wednesday!

If you don’t win, don’t worry as these Halloween print fabric designs will be available in the DF fabric shop for purchase.

Good luck!

5 Animal Print Fabrics to DIY For | World Animal Day

Today it’s World Animal Day so we’re celebrating it with these colorful, animal print fabrics! Whether you love zebra print textiles or the classic leopard style, we have you covered!

We listed our favorite animal print fabrics below available in our Digital Fabrics shop. Let us know what you would DIY with it because our mission is to help you bring your creative ideas to life!

Leopard Print Fabric

Blue Snake Print Fabric

Wild Zebra Print Fabric

Zebra Stripes Fabric

How to prepare a layout legging pattern for fabric printing in Photoshop

Garment making and production can be daunting and a complicated process especially placement or engineered printing. A lot of time and effort goes into research and understanding where to start. We have put together tutorials on how to design, work with and prepare legging pattern for digital placement fabric printing. For this tutorial you need to be proficient in Illustrator or at least have basic knowlage. Our tutorial is based on industry standards. This technic can be applied to printing other products such as bikinis, t-shirts, singlets , dresses etc.

How to prepare a layout/mark up legging pattern for fabric printing in Photoshop

Once you’ve completed the steps in the tutorial ‘How to use legging pattern in Photoshop’ You may want to print more than 1 design or more than 1 size, the most economic way to do this is to create a mark up/placement layout to have printed.

The following are instructions on how to set up in Photoshop, but could easily be done in Illustrator.

Start off by renaming the pattern layers to insure that you always have a pair of leggings.

If you are only wanting the same size with different designs you can just Duplicate the leg layers. If you’d like to bring in different sizes you will need to repeat the steps in ‘How to use legging pattern in Photoshop’

In this tutorial we will be using the same size 10 but printing in new designs.

On the same artboard move files to the left hand side. you will notice that you can only comfortable fit 1 pair within the 147cm width with the current orientation; however there is a lot of wastage as illustrator below.

Like a Jigsaw puzzle you will now need to start moving the patterns, you will need to make sure that you keep in mind that your grain line is parallel to the selvage. To do this, select the leg you’d like to rotate (select both layers) press Ctrl+t to open up the transform tool and while holding down shift rotate the image 360′ and make sure to move the pattern piece as close as possible to other leg (zoom in to make sure it is not overlapping)

You can now start bringing in the other size 10 designs and play around with the layout. It’s best that you make the art board slightly longer than needed and once you’ve set up all the designs crop the excess.

Make sure you zoom in and double check that you haven’t overlapped any areas, when you are happy with the layout save as a JPG, TIFF or PDF.

You’re now on your way to have custom printed fabric which you will be able to make into comfy leggings.

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Design your own leggings – How to prepare legging pattern for fabric printing in Photoshop

Garment making and production can be daunting and a complicated process especially placement or engineered printing. A lot of time and effort goes into research and understanding where to start. We have put together tutorials on how to design, work with and prepare legging pattern for digital placement fabric printing. For this tutorial you need to be proficient in Photoshop and Illustrator or at least have basic knowlage. Our tutorial is based on industry standards. This technic can be applied to printing other products such as bikinis, t-shirts, singlets , dresses etc.

How to prepare legging pattern for fabric printing in Photoshop

Open the PDF file in Illustrator. You can purchase our digital leggings pattern on our website or use your own.

Copy and paste the size you would like to use within the same file, we have selected size 10.

Delete all details and notches within the pattern piece and select the pattern shape and fill in black.

while legging is selected copy and take note on the sizing.

Open Photoshop and select a new artboard, keep the pixels and resolution the same, just make sure you’ve selected RGB color mode. Click OK and Paste pattern piece as a smart object, click enter to place.

Double check that the sizing is correct by selecting Image>image size, in this case it is only a few points off which will be fine.

Next you’ll need to increase your artboard size to fit the other leg, change the width of your artboard to the width of the fabric you’d like to use and select the anchor points to extend from corner.

Copy Layer and while selected transform (Ctrl+t), while still selected right click on top of the layer and select Flip Horizontally, you know have a pair.

With both layers selected you will need to select transform again (ctrl+t) and while select cover over to rotate, when rotating make sure you hold down shift to make sure it rotates correctly.