This is a first of 10 Battlestar Galactica squadron patches I'm working on. Done in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS3 from reference screen captures.
Illustrator was just used for the basic paths and stitch patterns. I like it better than the pen tool in Photoshop. Illustrator is great for creating stitch pattern brushes to give it that sewn look. The textures were a combination of the stock pattern overlays in Photoshop and the texturizer filter. I also use some Alien Skin texture filer on occasion. The animal fur filter is great.
Yeah, and it'd the stitching I'd really like to do, which I can't do in PS. And I'm pretty sure you have much nicer patterns than I have... None of mine look like those.
Did you make the textures yourself? 'Cause I'm having a hell of a time finding textures like that.