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Cushion Cover File Set Up Tutorial

Interested on how to make your custom cushions?

Here are some helpful steps on how to set up your artwork ready to print with us.

You can print custom cushions from any type of design photographic, hand drawn/painted, created in Photoshop or Illustrator, the possibilities are endless! Any size, any shape, front and back or just front panels of cushions.

For this how-to we chose to paint beautiful Orchids in watercolour. Once painting is finished and dry we digitized the artwork by scanning it at high dpi of 300, artwork also can be photographed.

 

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After artwork is scanned and manipulated to desired colour and placement create a new canvas in RGB colour mode, 48 x 48 cm for finished size cushion cover of 45cm x 45cm including 1.5cm seam allowance on all sides of the cushion covers.

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To help remember that there is seam allowance on the artwork put guidelines on all sides 1.5cm in (these guidelines won’t show when printed). Place an artwork on art board, play around with the placement until you get the look you are after and be mindful that anything outside of the guidelines will not be seen. We print digitally onto white fabric, for this specific cushion we wanted a white background so we left the background white, if you want a colour background you can do so by creating a new layer with the colour and placing it behind the artwork.

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When you are happy with the results you can flatten your artwork and save, artwork can be saved as either a JPEG or TIFF.

Repeat these steps for the back of the cushion cover, if you want a certain colour for the back, drop in the colour you want into the layer.

 

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Once all is in order and your order is ready to proceed leave it to us and we can do the rest, your cushion covers will be done in no time.

We hope this helps you on your way to creating some amazing custom cushion covers to spice up your home.

Happy Designing!

The Digital Fabrics Team

 

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Showcase:Fionnbharr Pfeiffer

This Months showcase we are featuring designer Fionnbharr Pfeiffer who printed with us earlier this year for his collection.

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What inspired you for your fashion collection? My collection is inspired by ww2 special forces camo that I have collected from all over the world. Russian and Finnish ww2 snow camo played important roles in designing the final collection; also Whoopi Goldberg which is more of a political statement.

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Who is your favourite fashion designer? Hussein Chalayan

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Why do you think fashion prints are a good element to have in your designs? They are incredibly important in defining a designers style. It takes it to that next level of individuality and effort.

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What are your plans for the future?
Working on my next collection of samples and production. I hope to live off my work, because I love and enjoy it.

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Image source: Fionnbharr Pfeiffer

 

Showcase: Anurati Krishnamurthy

This Months showcase we are featuring student Anurati Krishnamurthy who printed with us for her uni project.

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What inspired you for your fashion collection?

I was inspired by block printing and traditional Indian printing techniques. In particular I was draw to the motifs and techniques. I looked at a lot of Anokhi collections and researched how they printed their fabrics. Anokhi is a brand in Indian that has its print factory based in Jaipur, they still use traditional ways to dye and print material. They use traditional prints on contemporary silhouettes.  My collection has contemporary prints and silhouettes while acknowledging Indian traditions.

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Who is your favourite fashion designer?

Manish Arora

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Why do you think fashion prints are a good element to have in your designs?

I think they enhance the design greatly while communicating the concept of the collection. Prints also unify and integrate the individual pieces to the concept and the collection as a whole.

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What are your plans for the future?

I would like to do my Masters in Design, and I am currently looking at universities.

Image source: Anurati Krishnamurthy