Digital Costume Design & Rendering: Pens, Pixels, and Paint

For theatre, film, television, entertainment or fashion design, Digital Costume Design & Rendering will help you master digital tools to increase productivity and creativity.

Using Corel Painter or Adobe Photoshop, author Annie Cleveland's years of professional experience as a costume designer and a teacher will quickly immerse you in the world of digital costume design.

Written by a costume designer for costume and fashion designers, this definitive, how-to guide takes you from the basics of opening the program and exploring the workspace to working with color and layers. Selections and transformations are followed by working with patterns and then it's on to the finishing touches for your final design. Included as a bonus is a unique chapter on digital makeup design to complete your work.

Annie O. Cleveland served for 17 years as a tenured Associate Professor and the resident costume designer for the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance at Colorado State University before relocating to the Los Angeles area where she taught and designed productions at California State University Northridge. Annie has traveled extensively, including a voyage around the world as a professor on Semester at Sea.

Since 1994 her primary area of research has been integrating digital design into the process of costume design. In 2009 she received a Fulbright grant to teach Computer Aided Costume Design at National Taiwan University.

In 2009, Annie and her husband Barry were awarded the USITT Herbert D. Greggs Award for their article, Fort Worth for Entertainment: Billy Rose's Casa Mañana 1936-1939. Their recent publications include The Designs of Carrie Robbins (2011) and The Designs of Douglas W. Schmidt (2015), part of the USITT monograph series recognizing great American Designers.

Annie currently lives in Santa Fe just blocks from where she was born and frequently teaches in-depth seminars on Digital Costume Design & Rendering at universities and theatres around the country and the globe.