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Style over Substance

real scarf compilation
I'm nearly there.... less than 2 weeks to my hand in of my final major project - my last module and the end of my degree studies.  I have spent all day refining my final boards - as we are having a digital hand in I want the imagery to look as good as I am able - sadly we are not submitting the actual finished scarves only photographs.

Its really pushed me on yet another Photoshop learning curve and the devil is in the detail - never my strongest point but slowly it is coming together - I have proof read my sketchbook submission and corrected it accordingly - there was loads to do... and now I have been correcting the final collection.

mock up scarf compilation



I've prepped the boards on Photoshop and then put them into InDesign making a PDF and then proof reading that - meaning all corrections have to go through the process again....

I don't have a scarf printed up for every collection so I have had play with puppet warp on PS - it took some experimenting with - I faffed with layer masks but in the end it was easier and more effective to warp the image around the goats skull - and then I thresholded another scarf image, took out the back ground and used it to overlay the shadows to make it look a little more 3 dimensional.


Each of the 7 collections has a style board, a design board and a couple more boards illustrating the different colourways on offer. 

Its all taken my much longer than I had anticipated - both the putting imagery together and then ensuring it get into Indesign in a coherent order - If I'm honest my brain is starting to feel a bit mashed!!!!


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