I'm excited and honored to be featured in this week's Adobe Blog.  It's always amazing to be personally contacted by the Adobe folks but it's even better now that they are  recognizing the wide use of Illustrator and Photoshop within the fashion industry.

I have been preaching this for years and now Adobe is listening.  Hopefully we can look forward to some future updates that will make life even easier for Fashion users.  Some of my requests include updating the offset filter and Indexed color to make them more user friendly. 
What would you like to see improved?

I'm so excited to announce that my newest course "Photoshop for Fashion: Warping Fabric" is now available on Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning.

It covers lots of really useful stuff like putting fabric swatches into seamless repeat and turning them into pattern fills. I also cover how to warp fabric so it wraps around the body and I show you how to do it on illustrations, flats and photographs. The best part is that I do it with "Smart Objects" so you can switch out the pattern in seconds while retaining all of the warping and shading. 

This course is definitely a game changer.

I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed recording it.

​You can check it out here

I'm so excited to announce the revival of my Robin Schneider Channel on YouTube!

It's going to be a great supplement to my Lynda.com/LinkedIn Learning courses and a quick way to answer pressing questions from both Students and Fashion Professionals.

I have plenty of ideas but I want to hear from you too.

What would you like to learn? 

Stop by my channel and let me know, post questions and I'll do my best to get you the answers you need.

And while you are there don't forget to SUBSCRIBE, LIKE and SHARE!

I’ll be presenting Fashion Design tips and tricks using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop on February 26th at 7pm at The Art Institute of California – Los Angeles Campus in Santa Monica.
​This is a combined meeting with the Adobe Illustrator User’s group.
I’ll be covering how to draw flats quickly and easily; using the appearance panel and graphic styles for adding details; and some great Photoshop tricks for seamless repeat patterns.
If you are in Los Angeles, come out and join me for this free event.
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Happy Holidays! Tonight was the Adobe Illustrator Users Group Los Angeles final meeting of 2013. They held an Illustrator Illustration contest  for some great prizes including a 1 year membership to Creative Cloud. Even though I already have my membership I thought I’d send a submission just for fun. So I decided to step away from fashion for a change and try my hand at a self portrait – not too bad, the cool part is that I was able to shave off a few pounds. But at the last minute I just had to add the Santa hat.  It’s hard to let go of the fashion stuff.  
At the meeting I was asked how I did the fur and of course the answer was…I made a brush. Now I can’t keep a great brush like this all to myself so I’ve added it to the downloads section.

or you can just click here: Download

Have fun playing with it!  If you’d like to learn how to create a fur brush in Photoshop check out my new course on Lynda.com Photoshop for Fashion Design: Rendering Techniques

Happy New Year Everyone!

I’d like to invite you to join us for our next Adobe for Fashion User’s Group Meeting
on Tuesday Nov 12 at 7pm. 

It’s a free event, sanctioned by Adobe and hosted by the following group of fashion educators:

Ludmila Adams /FashionChalkboard.com
Chris Schiotis/ Instructor: Otis, Fashion Business Inc.
Robin Schneider / Lynda.com, AdobeforFashion.com, Instructor: AICA-H, UCLA, Author.
Kevin Sheffield / Design Technology Manager for FNPC

Our mission is to inform, educate and promote fashion related applications of Adobe software, as well as advise industry professionals on best practices and tips that could help streamline their workflow.  So come brush up on your Photoshop and Illustrator skills and learn some new tricks.This meeting’s topic is Textile Design and we have lots of great techniques to share. We have a demo of The Dynamic Measure tool by the great Sebastian Bleak from Astute Graphics, networking opportunities, refreshments and of course a prize raffle! 

I’ve attached a flyer with all the details- please share it with any fashion professionals or students you think would benefit.

For more information visit out Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AdobeForFashionLosAngelesUserGroup
 I hope you can make it!

Making Denim in Photoshop
A simple way to generate a denim texture in Photoshop

1. Setting up the Document
Step 1
​Open a new Photoshop document, I used the US Paper setting and then changed the width and height to 2 inches.

Step 2
Select a Dark Blue for the Foreground color and fill the entire page with it.

Step 3
Select a Light Blue for the Background color.

Step 4
Now  go to Filter> Filter Gallery> Halftone Pattern.
Use the Default settings

• Size:  1
• Contrast: 5
• Pattern: Dot

Step 5
Go to Filter> Stylize> Diffuse and select one of the Mode options.
Normal

I know I’m not the only one. I try to resist, try to stop, to tune out the music but it calls to me. My friends beg me for it, requesting it day and night. It’s addicting, a diabetic need it’s…Candy Crush. It was once my sweet little secret but now as I move on to higher levels I have started to run into friends and colleagues along my path. Face book encourages me to announce it to the world when I pass them to help keep this sweet world alive.

To make things worse it it doled out in hits of 5 at a time…making sure no one overdoses yet keeping us all hooked.I have begun to hear its music in my dreams…
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I’ve been trying to stop or at least cut back, but after every round of grading papers I need a hit, a fix to clear my mind. At a recent intervention I was told I must quit, I was informed by friends and loved ones that from now on daily requests for extra lives would go unanswered…ignored, I would be left for dead in my sweet candy crush world. It was suggested I spend my time in more productive pursuits like making brushes, symbols, patterns and tutorials to benefit others. I want to, I really do , but quitting is so hard, and as of yet-no patch or pill to stop the craving.

So in an attempt to save myself I have returned to making brushes. But to stay the path I’ll need your help and support. If reading this post can help just one person regain focus and quit then it was worth opening up and sharing my addiction with the world.

Please show your support by signing up and downloading my newest offering of brushes, symbols and a pattern.