![]() ![]() You can use pictures you take of your own stash just as easily, though! For this tutorial I used the Albums under the Photos tab on the Blended Thread Fabrics Facebook group, they are large and well lit, which makes it easy. Now the really fun part! Grab a picture of fabric! This can be a picture you took or one you grab from a website or Facebook. Save your line drawing here and you’ll be able to reuse it! Go to File and click Save As. (This removes the white, but you can’t see any difference here yet.) Open the Select menu and click Deselect. Each part will turn white when you click it. inside the sleeves, bands, bodice, all the parts of the hood, and the strings. Hold down the shift key (which enables you to make multiple selections) and click inside each area of the lineart drawing, i.e. Everything inside the drawing will be highlighted in a lovely periwinkle shade. To start, make sure the Lineart layer is selected (you can see it’s highlighted blue) and click the Magic Wand tool on the left toolbar.Ĭlick on the white background outside of the line drawing. So we’re going to remove that white space. You can’t see it against a white background, of course, but if you tried to put something behind this line drawing you wouldn’t be able to see it. This line drawing has one thing we don’t need, though, and that is white coloring in between the lines. This layer needs to stay on top, so if another one ends up above it, click the layer name and drag that layer down below it. Now name your line drawing layer! This will help you keep track of what’s on each layer, and this layer is an important one! Click the gear wheel at the left of the layer label and type “Lineart.” You can zoom in and out with your scroll wheel, and move the line drawing either with the sliders on the bottom and right side, or by selecting the Hand tool from the left toolbar. Open the Edit menu and click Crop, and everything that is not in the box is removed! Now we go back to FireAlpaca and click on the Edit Menu at the top of the page, and select “Paste.” The whole line drawing is pasted! Pick which view you’d like to use for your mockup, and then click on the Crop tool on the left toolbar and draw a box around that view. ![]() I used the Summit Peak to start with! Open the listing website page for the pattern you want to use, click on the listing picture with the line drawings to select it, right click, and select “Copy Image.” We’ll start with the line drawings! All New Horizons Designs patterns have the line drawings on the listing page, so you can do this even with patterns you don’t own (yet!) ![]() What we are going to do is put a line drawing on one pane, or layer, color another layer with a fabric image, and then remove all of the fabric image except for the part that will show through the line drawing where we want to see it. The panes are stacked in order, so the parts of the image on the bottom panes can only be seen through the areas with no drawings on them on the top panes. Each pane of glass can have part of an image drawn on it, and then the panes are stacked so that you can see the complete image by looking through all of them. If you’re not familiar with layers in the digital drawing sense, they are essentially like panes of glass. Increase the pixel size for a larger work area and choose “Color” for the Background color, this will put your project on a white background so it’s a little easier to see.Īnd this is FireAlpaca! We will mostly be using a few of the buttons on the left side, the Edit and Select menus, and what will become a list of layers on the right side. The first thing to do is open the File menu and click New to start a new project. Then open it from your start menu, click ok to close the only ad it pops up, and you’re ready to start! Once it downloads, run it by double clicking on it and follow the prompts to install it. It’s completely free and available for Windows or Macs, and it’s called FireAlpaca! To download it, on your desktop computer go to and select the version you want, and the language. You can do this on many different software programs, but I’m using a free one with the best name ever. Hi! This is Amanda and today I’m going to show you how to add fabric images to line drawings of sewing patterns so you can see them before you sew them! I will warn you, it’s hard to stop once you start, making digital clothes is almost as much fun as making real ones, though with the major downside being that you can’t wear them! ![]()
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