How to Insert Fabric Swatches into your Garment’s Drawing

This computer technique video will show you how to preview your fabric swatches in a garment’s drawing before starting to cut and sew! Learn how to digitally panel fabrics together to see how they will look and make sure you choose the perfect fabric for the project. Discover your design skills and test out different fabric and color combinations to end up with your perfect finished garment.

• You are new to using Photoshop for fashion design
• You’re unsure about following grainlines
• You want to preview your fabrics within the garments drawing to match fabrics and colors
• You want to test out different fabric and color combinations within the sewing pattern’s technical

• Obtaining the garment’s technical drawing off burdastye.com
• Opening the drawing and fabric swatches in Photoshop and starting a new clipboard
• Using the magic wand tool to select different garment sections
• How to put a fabric swatch into repeat to retain fabric print’s scale