Creating Scalloped edges for a bra

Can someone tell me how to make scalloped edging for a bra for example, in Photoshop? And also if I have a lace edging texture that I like, how do I outline certain parts of the bra with it? Thanks

Lacey

Treat the lace like any other fabric that needs to be tweaked to fit a curve. You'll have to do some careful cutting and pasting and then work with the warp (Edit >> Transform >> warp) feature to stretch the edging to fit the contoured edge of the bra. Take a look at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rolig/2668058614/. I copied a portion of the PSD file of a the bodice of a gown I made recently, so you can see what I mean about stretching the lace. You can see the finished gown at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rolig/2668091738/.

For this bodice, I wanted the lace to be an overlay on the base fabric of the gown, and was not particularly concerned about its transparency. For your bra, you'll want it to be outside the solid border of the bra itself. To make sure that the open spaces in the lace show skin behind them, you'll need to be sure that you use the lace trim itself as a mask when you create your alpha channel, so that all the open spaces in the lace show up as black (transparent) in the alpha channel.

It's potentially tedious work, but it can look great if you do it carefully.

You also might want to try either of these methods;

1) - take a piece of the lace you like, crop it to a tileable shape and select the pixels. Then hit edit - create brush preset. Using the brush you can 'paint' along the edges of the bra and use transform to rotate each layer/brush stroke to lay along the edge (yes, i know, tedious as well, but when you're done you can make all the brush strokes one layer and apply a layer style) - or
2) - use vector shapes (hearts, swirlies, whatever) placing each one along the edge and transforming/rotating to have it aline with the edge then apply later styles.

i just could never get the warp thing down well enough. Although Robin does have a good thread about warping smart objects here somewhere...
Good luck!

Wow, thanks to both of you for the great responses....goes to try these methods right now

Lacey

The trick is patience. You can get things really messed up if you try to warp too much at a time. For that bodice, I think I used one short piece of lace that was roughly a square chunk originally. Then I duplicated it, warped it, rotated it, and dragged it into place and went to work on the next chunk. I'm so paranoid about messing things up that I put each new piece on a separate layer until I had the whole bodice trimmed. Then I merged all of those layers and gently smudged any visible mismatches between the pieces. As I said, ...... tedious.

This got me to thinking about Gimp and found this tut on creating a brush for gimp- HIH

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Custom_Brushes/