Skirt Rendering

Above is my rendered skirt, which I completed using the following instructions I wrote in class (although they may be worded badly at times - they make sense to me!!):

1. Adjust brightness/contrast where necessary, or levels, so we can select the white
2. Unlock layer (tech sketch)
3. Aim is to get a completely solid black outline
4. Rectangle marquee to delete parts we don’t need
5. Magic wand, unclick contiguous 
6. Click on image, Delete white
7. If there are any gaps it will not work
8. Brush tool, select black, brush size same as outline. Draw in any gaps. Hard line. 
9. Select outside of skirt, contiguous back on. Skirt completely contained
10. Need to make the whole outline a solid black.
11. Uncheck contiguous. Select areas with no fill. Select inverse (outline). Fill with black (edit, fill, foreground colour). 
12. OUTLINE DONE. Own layer.
13. New layer, colour fill (pink skirt). Put below outline.
14. Always go to tech sketch layer to make the selection. Contiguous on. Magic wand, select outside of layer. Inverse.
15. Back to pink skirt layer
16. Select colour, paint bucket, fill selection. 
17. Can do this as many times as you want, with different colours
18. ADDING PRINT
19. Duplicate layer of our pattern into the skirt file. Destination into skirt file. 
20. Must resize in increments otherwise it will pixelate. 
21. Go by 25% each time, until it fits into the canvas. 
22. Command T. Make 75, 75. 75. 75 etc etc. 
23. Once it is within canvas, Duplicate pattern, put it back into repeat manually. Marge the layers. Continue to make smaller and smaller in this way.
24. Crop the fabric layer around the canvas.
25. Bring layer to the bottom for safety
26. Duplicate it and put it underneath technical sketch. Turn off bottom print (only working with sketch and print layer)
27. RENDERING
28. Use rectangular marquee to select first space.
29. Edit, transform, warp
30. Move using mouse, dragging outsides. 
31. Magic wand. Contiguous on. 
32. Back to outline layer.
33. Hold down shift to make multiple selections inside the outline. 
34. Back to print copy, inverse selection. Delete. 
35. Repeat as needed.
36. To fill in final gaps, duplicate layer again (rotate if needed).
37. Back to technical sketch layer, select outside of skirt, delete outside.
38. MERGE LAYERS ONCE HAPPY
39. SHADOW
40. New layer, (so we can adjust opacity), shadow
41. 30% opacity
42. Brush, black
43. Really soft (hardness)
44. Always shadow when something is on top of something
45. Manually shadow, OR
46. Go to tech sketch layer and select areas to add shadow
47. Go back to shadow layer and draw on top