LIMITED TIME PRICE: “Do you know how to spec a garment?” is a question that usually comes up during interviews, especially for entry-level or assistant designer positions. Whether you’re trying to land your first job in the fashion industry, or you’ve already been a designer for years, learning how to measure clothing is one of most important skills you can have. Designers must always include at least basic garment specs with flat sketches and Senior Designers must review and approve spec sheets and train others how to spec.

NOW WITH MENS AND WOMENS: Experienced fashion designers will tell you that tech packs play an essential part in all areas of fashion design and garment production. Usually apparel tech packs contain fully detailed flat sketches and garment spec list, topstitching and trim details, artwork layouts, and any other information required to produce a sample garment. Apparel tech packs are sent to factories to make approval garment samples. When the fit is finalized, size grades are given for the style, which are used for garment production.

REVAMPED: Sweater design fashion sketches are some of the hardest to draw because of all the details in sweater designs. Usually fashion knits silhouettes are simple, but sketching stitch details and textures can be really time consuming. To save time, many fashion sweater designers create Adobe Illustrator brushes and swatches to show cable stitches, pointelle, lace, crochet… But the whole process of creating and drawing a perfect repeat of a sweater stitch can take hours, even if you’re good with Illustrator!

300 NEW BRUSHES: When it comes to creating fashion flat sketches, there are usually two main criteria: sketching garment details accurately, and sketching quickly. Adobe Illustrator is used widely within the industry to create flats faster than sketching by hand. But garments can be detailed, from embroidery designs, gathers and ruffles to topstitching, graphics, trims, hardware and more. Despite the advantages of Illustrator, representing these details accurately means sketching each element individually. As a result, sketching garments with accurate details can still be very time consuming, and details are often skipped to save time.

Finally, a comprehensive and easy way to learn this confusing CAD design program. Covering beginner and intermediate levels of design, this ebook and exercise files cover every tool and feature used regularly 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.

Now there’s an easy way to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator to create your own custom swatches and brushes! With the interactive tutorials in the “My Practical Skills: Adobe Illustrator Advanced Techniques” ebook, you’ll learn to define your own swatches, and generate seamless print repeats for textile designs. You’ll also learn to create customized Illustrator brushes to quickly represent topstitching, trims, binding, ruffles, gathers and other garment details that would otherwise be tedious to sketch individually. Applying these Illustrator techniques to your fashion design projects will save you time and increase your productivity.

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.

In the fashion industry, Microsoft Excel is used by designers to create garment spec sheets for initial sample requests, by technical designers to create apparel tech packs, and sales people use fashion line sheets created in Excel to present the current line to buyers. The creation of these essential documents is usually completed by designers, so if you’re unfamiliar with Excel or if your knowledge is limited to entering data, it’s time to update your skills.

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.

Tired of constantly reprinting CAD designs to get the right colors, aren’t you? Our printable color library helps ensure correct color output when printing computerized designs. The library allows designers to accurately select artwork colors, reducing the chances of printer output discrepancies.