The secret to making this work is a teeny little checkbox in the Transparency panel called Knockout Group. In reality, if you are an apparel designer, you should have an entire Graphic Style library of stitching lines alone. And the good news is, the steps are pretty much the same, and at the end of the day, you can define a Graphic Style so that you can apply double-stitched lines with a single click. What you REALLY want is a way to make the middle area between the two stitch lines become truly transparent. If your thread is white, the whole stitch will disappear altogether. You COULD set the entire path to the Multiply blend mode, which will make the white go away, but if your stitch lines aren't colored black (for example, you're using green or red thread), that color will also multiply. If the apparel you're designing isn't colored white, you'll have a white area in between your two stitch lines. If you were to create a heavy black stroke with a dash setting and then add a thinner white stroke with no dash setting on top of it, you'd get a perfect double-stitched line, correct? If one had to draw two paths to simulate a double-stitched line, that would make it twice as more difficult to make edits.Īnyone who knows me, can probably guess that my answer will involve the Appearance panel, right? Well, most people are probably smart enough to know that you can create a single path and add two stroke attributes to that path. Knowing how often apparel designs change, and how newer designs evolve from existing designs, it becomes increasingly important to work with objects that can easily be edited. Obviously, you want to be able to create stitching lines that are easy to create and easy to edit and manipulate. The question that my friend at Nike was struggling with was creating double-stitching. If you have the Real World Illustrator CS3 book, there's good information on all of these Stroke settings on pages 48-51. There are actually 3 sets of dashes and gaps (meaning you can specify a long dash followed by a short dash, etc.) and you can also use Illustrator's various Cap and Join settings to further customize the appearance of your strokes. I'm sure you're all familiar with it, but just in case, you can turn on the Dash setting for any stroke and then assign a Dash setting (the length of each dash segment) and a Gap setting (the length of the space that appears between each dash). We all know that Illustrator's Stroke attribute can be used to simulate a stitching line by using the dash setting. A good friend of mine recently got a job at Nike in Europe and was lamenting how difficult it was to draw certain kinds of stitching lines. I should probably write up more stuff on apparel design only because Illustrator has so much to offer in that field. It's an entirely different experience when you design something and then when it's done, you actually put it on and wear it :) It's one thing to design a cool brochure and flip through the pages when it's printed. And since then, I've had the pleasure of working with folks at places like Cabelas, Reebok, Victoria's Secret, Hurley International, the GAP, and more. Before I even joined Adobe, I spent several years training fashion designers in NYC. One of the really exciting creative fields that has always drawn my attention is that of fashion and apparel design.
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One of the things that I really love about Illustrator is that it's used across such a diverse professional spectrum.
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