Fashion Computing: Design Techniques And CAD | 
 enlarge | Author: Sandra Burke
Publisher: Burke Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 77060
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 11.6 x 8.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0958239134
Dewey Decimal Number: 746
EAN: 9780958239134
ASIN: 0958239134
Publication Date: April 30, 2005
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 worst book for fashion design using photoshop May 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was a huge disappointment. I am so lucky I purchased a different book to teach me Illustrator (Creative Fashion Design with Illustrator by Kevin Tallon). Tallons book actually has extensive step by step tutorials where Sandra Burke simply skims over her exercises.Many of her exercises don't even work corrently. One could never master Photoshop or Illustrator using this book.
Fashion Computing: Design Techniques and CAD March 13, 2008
Out of the 4 books that I have read so far teaching Adobe Illustrator this is the best - my graphics have improved immensely in the short time that I started using this book (and I'm only a third of the way through the book).
The only downside is that with the update in Illustrator (CS 3) some of the instructions for Illustrator do not work and I have had to search through the Illustrator Help menus to download updated instructions.
So the book needs a little updating, but generally I would recommend this book over others so far.
A good guidline for beginner July 23, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have started using Illustrator software recently and this book have served a good support for flat sketching the garments for women,men and kidswear.Is also gives tips to prepare portfolio, but you already should know basics of how to use Illustrator programme. It is nicely illustrated book and one can get ideas. But again its a basic book and does not cover all the aspects of flat sketching.
 Inspiring and highly informative - excellent for fashion students and the fashion industry! May 3, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great book! Even if you are a complete beginner you will find this book an informative and useful resource. It gets you up and running quickly with really simple, step-by-step, illustrated techniques for fashion computing using current software.
In my fashion design studio, we predominatly use CorelDraw, Illustrator and Photoshop, and found this book informative for each of these packages. It covers the basics - how to create flat drawings from vests, skirts, shirts, dresses to pants, and then moves on to producing mood and design boards, visualizing your design ideas using Photoshop. The section on creating a digital portfolio is also vital in todays digital world. Plus it covers womenswear, menswear and childrenswear.
It is well illustrated with great examples of flats, illustrations and fashion presentations from illustrators and designers in the fashion industry and from top fashion schools and universities globally.
 dissappointing February 27, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book has great pictures of fashion illustrations and is helpful because it gives instructions for 3 different CAD platforms, but as far as giving explicite directions on "how to", I found it lacking in substance. It seems that the really great stuff in the book was still hand drawn,scanned in and manipulated a bit with Photoshop. If you are absolutely brand new to these programs and need help gettting started it might help you. For me, it will be more of a pretty book to look at once in a while rather than a reference for problem solving.
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