Practice Project 1

Customizing Knitwise Design Templates

In order to get familiar with the standard file structure used for knitting tasks, lets first try and customize an already premade template. Here’s what we’ll do:

Practice Project 1.mp4

And here is the same procedure step by step:

Download this file, open it in Photoshop and arrange it like in the screenshot:

Knitwise x myArt - sample design - horror pattern print (fill layers).psd

Recolor

1. To make the background color mellow, in the Layer panel locate the “Background” layer and click on it to seelct it. After that, in the “Swatches” panel locate the “Coco” color swatch and click it once. The background color will change.
2. To make the eyes’ color blue, in the Layer panel locate the “Pattern Color 2” layer and click on it to select it. After that, in the “Swatches” panel locate the “Denim” color swatch and click it once. The color of the eyes will change.
3. The only other color we have to change is the Trim color. In the Layer panel locate the “Trim” layer and click on it to select it. After that, in the “Swatches” panel locate the “Coco” color swatch and click it once. The color of the Trim will change.

Your screen should look something like this at this point:

With this, we have finished changing the colors.

Save your design

Change the image mode to Index by going to “Image / Mode / Index”. Photoshop will ask for permission to merge all layers, confirm it by clicking “Allow” and the Indexed Color window will appear. Change the Palette to “Exact” and Photoshop should show the number of colors as “6” and ghost the input field for number of colors. Make sure the rest of the parameters is set like in the image (basically set everything to “no”):

Palette: Exact Forced: None Matte: None

Confirm the settings and Photoshop will convert the image to Index mode. Navigate to “File / Save As…” and set the file type to “BMP”. Save the image somewhere easily accessible. You should end up with this file: