Photoshop Play

This week we explored Photoshop Elements in our meeting.  Photoshop allows quilt artists to manipulate photos to create interesting effects.  You can create a lot of fabric with the same colors, but that all look different.  This can create some interesting quilts.  Photoshop allows you to create photos that can be printed on fabric through home inkjet printers.  Jan did a wonderful job of explaining how the program works and how to manipulate and print the photos.  I went home and played with some of my photos after the meeting. I'll share a couple of those, since I didn't get any pictures at the meeting.

Original

Glowing Edges

Original

Twirl

I hope that the rest of you have fun playing around with photos and adding a new way of making interesting quilts.  

Remember that our landscape challenge is due to share at the next meeting.  So please remember the bring it to the next meeting.  Bring any felt pieces to share at the next guild meeting as well.  

Next month we are going to be playing around with gelli printing.  Printing on a gelatin plate or a synthetic gelatin plate is a way to get interesting prints without a press.  We will be practicing on paper mostly and maybe a bit of fabric.  

These are the things that we need to bring for the next meeting:   

• paper scissors
• pencil
• brayer
• $3.00 to cover the rest of the materials

Until the next meeting go out and be creative and get ready to share with the group.