Photo Transfer Fun at Pat's

We had a wonderful time, printing photographs onto fabric, at Pat's on President's Day. Seven of us got together, and brought their photos to download into Pat's new Laptop computer. I had a handout on preparing treated fabric, printing from Windows Photo Wizard, and printing from Adobe Photoshop. We mostly used the Photoshop program, because it allowed us to enhance the photos, kick up the color and contrast and otherwise play with them. We also wanted to print 8" x 10" to save fabric. Peggy printed two versions of her hand painted flowers, we changed the color on each, and printed two sizes. Sherry's photo of a barn in the snow, was a study in contrast, we brought out the texture in the shingles and fence, and the contrast on the white snow. We printed her two versions, in horizontal and vertical orientations. Meredith had 3 photos her son had taken of rocks in the bottom of a crystal clear stream, with light reflecting on the ripples of water. Kicking up the color gave the gold rocks and the blue water strong contrast in complimentary colors. We cropped a section for detail and reprinted in an 8 X 10, giving her matching fabric to coordinate. We also made a negative of one and reversed the image into a light blue image, then played with distorting it with "Liquify" this made "star fish" and swirls through the pattern. Kay and Dorie printed family images, and realized how focus, and cropping help the image. Pat had a photo with blah color of Monarch butterflies in Monterey California, adding color and severe cropping helped make a bad photo interesting. Dorie and Meredith were impressed with how it could make an average photo (or photographer)into something special. We printed several photos for each person, and played with cropping and flipping images. By lunch time we were ready for a fabulous potluck, taco soup from Pat, homemade bread from Amy and brownies, banana bread and various other desserts. Really good cheesy-melty french bread from Landreth. After lunch we mostly talked about printing options and what to do with our photos, and called it an early day. I am looking forward to seeing what people make with their prints.