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My Practical Skills™ are fashion design tools including online videos, courses, eBooks, and other helpful resources for the fashion industry. We donate a portion of our proceeds to numerous charities.
| UPDATED: Adobe Illustrator Brushes ($19.95) | |
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NOW OVER 400 BRUSHES! When it comes to creating flat sketches in the industry, sketching garment details accurately and quickly is crucial. Having pre-made Adobe Illustrator Brush Libraries eliminates the need to sketch each detail individually, making it quick and easy to create accurately detailed flat sketches. »» find out more »» |
| "Adobe Illustrator Advanced Techniques" Interactive eBook ($24.95) | |
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Looking at these sketches, you might think "Whoa! Those are so complicated; they must have taken forever to do!" But actually these fancy, complex-looking details only took us minutes (sometimes seconds) to create using a few simple tricks. And you don't have to have superpowers or be a 20 year veteran in Adobe Illustrator to quickly put the same amount of details in your sketches. We've explored the many shortcuts Illustrator has to offer and developed unique ways to apply them to QUICKLY create detailed fashion illustrations and flat sketches. Now we're sharing our most advanced personal tips and tricks that you won't learn anywhere else!
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| "Adobe Illustrator for the Fashion Industry" eBook ($34.95) | |
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A comprehensive and easy way to learn this confusing CAD program. From beginners to intermediate levels, this ebook and exercise files cover every tool and feature used daily in the fashion industry. With our Adobe Illustrator training and some practice, you can easily master the skills needed to create detailed fashion flats, CAD presentations and other industry standard design projects for the real world.
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| "Adobe Photoshop for the Fashion Industry" eBook ($34.95) with FREE BONUS "Photoshop Extras" | |
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Finally, you can learn Adobe Photoshop design software and compete with confidence in the fashion industry! With Photoshop for the Fashion Industry ebook training you'll become familiar with all the tools and features of Photoshop, and learn the techniques you need to create dynamic CAD fashion design projects for the real world.
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| "How to Spec a Garment" eBook ($29.95) now with FREE BONUS Tech Packs | |
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Whether trying to land your first job in the industry, or already a pro, knowing how to spec is one of most important skills. With this fully illustrated eBook, you'll learn how to spec a garment and become familiar with industry terms. Includes spec diagrams and garment measurement descriptions.
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| "Microsoft Excel for the Fashion Industry" eBook ($24.95) | |
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Microsoft Excel is used widely within the fashion industry to create apparel tech packs, spec sheets, line sheets, and other important documents. If you're unfamiliar with Excel or if your knowledge is limited to entering data, it's time to update your skills. With this e-book, you will learn everything you need to know to become proficient in Excel for the Fashion Industry.
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| 200 Vector Sketches: Garment Accessories ($11.95) | |
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Adobe Illustrator is used widely within the fashion industry to create flat sketches much faster than sketching by hand. However, garments usually contain lots of hardware and accessories. From buttons, shanks, zippers, and buckles, to grommets (eyelets), rhinestones, clasps and other hardware, sketching these garment accessories accurately can be very time consuming.
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| Illustrator Sweater Brushes and Swatches ($10.95) | |
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Creating accurate sweater sketches using Adobe Illustrator is very difficult and time consuming for sweater designers. Having pre-made Adobe Illustrator Sweater Libraries eliminates the need to sketch each detail individually, making it quick and easy to render numerous types of cables, stitches and ribs for sweater designs.
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| Printable RGB Color Palette Swatches ($34.95) | |
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Tired of constantly reprinting CAD designs to get the right colors? Our printable color swatches help ensure correct color output when printing computerized designs. They allow you to accurately select artwork colors, reducing chances of printer discrepancies.
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| Adobe Illustrator for the Fashion Industry: 1-on-1 Training Bootcamp ($495) |
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Become proficient in one of the most commonly used software in the industry. Our training courses will teach you how to efficiently create flat sketches, CADs and more. In one day of hands-on training, you'll learn the basics and beyond to become a valuable asset to any employer!
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| Adobe Photoshop for the Fashion Industry: 1-on-1 Training Bootcamp ($495) |
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Become proficient in one of the most commonly used software in the industry. Our training courses will teach you how to efficiently create and recolor print designs, presentation boards and more. In one day of hands-on training, you'll gain the skills and confidence you need to take on the competition!
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| Designers Nexus Amazon Store | |
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The Designers Nexus Amazon Store contains a selection of recommended titles from our own art and fashion libraries that we find the most helpful. Browse through the categories and check out our reviews of each title so you can choose the books that best fit your needs.
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My Practical Skills™ is created to empower and educate fashion designers, whether through CAD software training eBooks, courses, and videos that are easy to learn, or practical design tools that you can use in the apparel industry. We provide real skills for real life; practical knowledge that a fashion designer must have whether entry level or already a professional. Our series of learning materials includes comprehensive fashion design training for Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop in addition to other "must have" skills for designers. Also download from our selection of fashion design aids such as RGB Color Palette Swatches, and Illustrator Brushes and Swatches to increase your efficiency in the design room.
Having the right skills means the difference between actively participating in the design process; creating fashion flats sketches, CADs, presentation boards and textile layouts vs. being a gopher who types someone's emails, sends faxes and fetches coffee.
