About the same time that I was working
on my luminosity piece for the color class, I started playing around with
Photoshop Elements. I had version 5 at
the time, it came with my computer. My
daughter had taken a graphic arts class in high school and taught me a few
things. I thought I would take one of
the photos I had of her and see what I could do with it.
I ended up making my very first
Photoshop Elements (PSE) generated art quilt.
I added a filter, enhanced the colors, and using the clone stamp tool, I
removed the lawn furniture and patio lights that were in the background. I thought that this piece had developed its
own sense luminosity through the color enhancements and the position of the sun
when the photo was taken.
Still being somewhat of a novice at
printing to fabric, I decided to print this picture to a sheet of iron on
transfer paper, the kind of transfer sheets we use to put images on T-shirts. The printing went fine and the transfer of
the image to fabric also went fine.
After free motion stitching the piece I thought I would press it. Not a good idea! I ended up pressing off most of the color on
one of her legs plus some random specs throughout the picture. Not being one to waste the work I had already
done, I decided to get my paints out and rescue the piece by restoring the
missing colors. All in all, it turned
out, and I still like the piece a lot, but I haven’t used any iron on transfer
sheets in my art since!
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