Month: August 2012
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Tech Tuesday: Using the Clone Stamp Tool
In Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, you can “paint” over something with any part of the image you are working with. In other words, you can clone one part of an image onto another. There are lots of uses for the clone stamp tool. In this video, we’re going to show you one way to remove…
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Tech Tuesday: Photoshop File Size Limit
It finally happened. After using some version of Adobe Photoshop for 17 years, I finally hit the file size limit. I don’t mean the “no vacancy on the old hard drive” message or the “you’ve done something that’s using more computing power than your computer has” message, but the real “your file has too many…
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Tech Tuesday: Help! My Paintbrush Isn’t Working!
We got that frantic Photoshop message in an email last week. You know, the one that says, “Help! My brush has gone haywire!” You go to paint, and you can’t see your drawing line or it’s really faint. Has this ever happened to you? Well, there are some common things to check before you tear…
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Curating a Dream Collection Part II
Well, Deb had so much fun curating a dream collection of 12″ sq. art quilts for SAQA’s Benefit Auction (the online auction starts September 10, 2012), that I just had to try it, too. Where to start? I could have just stayed on the first auction page and created a dream collection from there, but…
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Tech Tuesday: When Your Enlargements Fall Flat
Here’s the creative idea: You’ve got a great photo you want to enlarge and print on fabric for some great wall art. (You don’t have to work in fabric, we just teach a lot of fiber artists so we like to keep them in mind.) Here’s the problem. You go to some Internet company to…
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Curating a Dream Collection
Kermit the frog sang about how it’s not easy being green. Well, it’s not easy being a curator either. Just try choosing six 12” square quilts from the 394 quilts donated to the Studio Art Quilt Associates’ (SAQA) benefit auction. That was the opportunity given to us by Executive Director Martha Sielman. Six quilts, SIX,…