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Tutorials

Read below to find all the great tutorials that users and staff have submitted to FSO. If you have a tutorial you would like to submit please click here. If you have any questions about submitting a tutorial or any other article please post them in the forums.

Below you will find our ten most recent tutorials. You may also navigate via category:
        Patternmaking   ( 1 Article )         Construction   ( 3 Articles )         Corsets   ( 5 Articles )         Computer Illustration   ( 3 Articles )         Flats and other Technical Documents   ( 1 Article )         Design Process and Activities   ( 1 Article )



Paint ME Pretty! How To Add Make-Up To Your Fashion Croquis In Adobe Photoshop
Tuesday, 02 March 2010 in Computer Illustration by SchauminChanel
Hello my friends! In my first tutorial I taught you how to colour your fashion croquis in Adobe Photoshop. Now I will only cover the make up aspect, and will move through this fairly quickly. If you do not recognize the tools I am using or missed... Read more...
Color Me Bad! How To Color Your Fashion Croquis In Adobe Photoshop
Thursday, 11 February 2010 in Computer Illustration by SchauminChanel
This tutorial will focus primarily on coloring your fashion Croquis in Adobe Photoshop. I will be using a previous Sketch of the Day post from my blog I will call Sweet Pea. I currently set up the file in a basic RGB for now, but if I were to print... Read more...
List of FREE Pattern Drafting Resources
Tuesday, 26 January 2010 in Patternmaking by Annie Jackson
Welcome to the Fashion Students Online FREE pattern drafting directory. We have worked very hard to find all the best FREE apparel patternmaking resources we can. Please use the guide below to go directly to the section you seek, or scroll through... Read more...
Fashion Collection Design - A step by step How To
Wednesday, 06 January 2010 in Design Process and Activities by Annie Jackson
Every designer and company uses a specific process for designing. Fashion Designers need to be flexible in the process they use if they want to work on a team but also flexibility is important even if you only plan to work for yourself. In most... Read more...
How to Make a Double-Busk
Friday, 04 December 2009 in Corsets by Sidney Eileen
The first time I made a double-busk for a corset, I was absolutely stunned by the difference in the strength and stability of the busk. A double-busk (also called a backing bone) is quite simply an extra 1/2" or wider spring steel flat, placed... Read more...
Learn How To Create and Use Technical Apparel Drawings Part 1
Sunday, 29 November 2009 in Flats and other Technical Documents by Guest Industry Writer
Jeff Hendrickson, an Honors Graduate of FIT who had the great fortune of co-designing a line that showed at Fall 2003 NYC Fashion Week, has spent the last 25 years digging into design projects around the world. From the textile mills of Tuscany to... Read more...
Drawing a dress with Photoshop
Sunday, 29 November 2009 in Computer Illustration by Sarah S.
I made this little tutorial to show you how simple it is to draw this girly and romantic dress using Adobe Photoshop (CS3). You should have basic PS skills or at least be acquainted with its interface to draw your own designs with this great... Read more...
Darting
Thursday, 26 November 2009 in Construction by Julia Nolan
The goal of a dart is to make it so that the fabric gets smaller at the top/tip of the dart  and larger at the end. This essentially takes the fabric in just a bit to give definition to smaller parts of your body (i.e. the waist). Because you want... Read more...
How to Add Waist Tape to a Corset
Thursday, 05 November 2009 in Corsets by Sidney Eileen
Waist tape is twill tape, tailor's tape, or other sturdy ribbon used to re-enforce the waistline of a corset.  It's not essential, but it does increase the durability of a corset by easing stress on the seams along the the highest stress point -... Read more...
Corset Alteration - Reducing the Bust Size
Saturday, 24 October 2009 in Corsets by Sidney Eileen
This is the first in a series of tutorials I will be writing on the subject of modifying an existing corset.  In this tutorial I will discuss how to fit and take out a dart at the bust to reduce the bust size on a corset.  In the example corset... Read more...
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