Author: Deb Cashatt
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Go Out Of Bounds With Photoshop Elements Guided Edits
This is Deb, back with another Tech Tuesday episode. In addition to Expert and Quick modes, Photoshop Elements (PSE) has a guided mode. It will walk you through, step by step, creating some fun special effects with your photos. If you open the Editor in PSE 2019 and click on the Guided tab just below…
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Group Layers In Photoshop Elements And Save your Sanity!
When we first started teaching Photoshop Elements, we hated the fact that you could not group layers like you could in plain ol’ regular Photoshop. Sometime along the way, Adobe realized how critical this feature was and added it to Photoshop Elements. We thought it would be a good idea to remind our former students…
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Pixeladies, Photoshop Elements, And Camtasia
Kris and I are busy updating our Photoshop Elements (PSE) Essentials classes. We’ve upgraded to Adobe Photoshop Elements 2019, and my job was to create all new videos. If you’ve ever wanted to try video editing or capturing what’s on your monitor, Camtasia 2019 from Techsmith is the best thing since sliced bread. And I…
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San Jose: Another Upcoming Pixeladies Adventure
Off to San Jose We’re about to head off on another Pixeladies adventure to the 2019 Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) Conference. Kris and I will be starting our second decade of attending SAQA conferences. Our first one was in Athens, Ohio in 2009. We had just become Regional Representatives for the Northern California/Nevada…
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Adobe Create Magazine And The Scribble Artist Action Set
It’s Deb here for another Tech Tuesday offering. Like many of you, I’m suffering through my annual cold. I don’t feel up to doing the things I should be doing like pruning my roses or working on projects that are due. Often I use the time to catch up on some reading. I love my…
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Katharine McCormick: The Boa
It’s Deb again, back with more about our project for the exhibition Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage. One of the reasons I love the particular photo of Katharine McCormick we used is because she’s wearing a boa. In my personal statements, I always end with this: “I’m waiting for feather boas…
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Fabric Messages AT 48 Natoma
This is Deb saying that If you find yourself in the Sacramento area between now and March 9, 2019, take the extra drive out to Folsom to see the Fabric Messages exhibit at the Gallery at 48 Natoma.* Under the curatorial vision of Cindy Abraham, this unassuming gallery has quite a history of promoting both nationally known and…
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Deb’s India Trip part 2 – Colorful India
Color, color, and more color! When you like bright colors as much as I do, India is paradise. I talked about my favorite place in my previous post about India. This time I’m just going to share some colorful eye candy. The colorful Vehicles One of the statements I write in my bio is that the world…
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Marketing 101 – Customer Satisfaction
Deb gives some nifty advice on what a great customer satisfaction card looks like.
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Deb’s India Trip Part 1
Do you have a bucket list? You know, that list of things you want to do before you “kick the bucket?” I’m really not a bucket list kind of gal, but there was one thing I really wanted to see in person: the Kailasa Temple in the Ellora Cave complex in India. I think it…
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Art Quilts Unfolding
“Wow! That’s one heavy box.” said my husband as he handed me (Deb) the package from Schiffer Publishing. “Wow!” I said as I tore the box open. I don’t think I’ve had a book that large and heavy since the days of college textbooks. This is no mere coffee table book, this book has meat!…
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The Google Keep App
Do you keep a notebook in your purse? Or do you just write notes on any scrap of paper when you have an idea? I’m of the latter persuasion. My desk was covered with notes written on napkins, return mail envelopes, and pages from the numerous notepads I purchase but forget to put in my…
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Antoni Gaudí’s Barcelona
Spain did not disappoint. Antoni Gaudí’s Barcelona was as magical as I thought it would be. What artist intentionally starts something that he knows he will never see to completion? La Sagrada Familia My first stop was Gaudí’s masterwork, La Sagrada Familia. This temple is amazing in so many ways. The highly decorated nativity façade…
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Teaching at Focus on Fiber Florida Style
Wanna get away? Why not join me at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida for Focus on Fiber? I’m going to be teaching a 2-day workshop on Improvisational Upcycling with T-shirts, April 7-8, 2019. What is Improvisational Upcycling? Improvise: to make or fabricate out of what is conveniently on…
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Katharine McCormick: The Facelift
It’s Deb, back with the another post on our project for the 2020 exhibition, Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage. In our last post about the project, we talked about how we chose the face color. This time we’ll show you how we gave Katharine McCormick a bit of a facelift. Liquify Filter…
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My Love Affair With Mosaics
This is Deb. I’m in the airport right now and thinking about mosaics.* I’ve forgotten when my love affair with mosaics started. It was definitely before I visited the Magic Gardens in Philadelphia. And before visiting the House of Shards at the Abita Mystery House in Abita Springs, Louisiana. It…
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Behind the Scenes at Quilting Arts TV
We flew to Cleveland, Ohio last week to film three segments for Quilting Arts TV. We met up with our colleague Jane Haworth (pronounce it like Howard, but replace the “d” with “th”) at the airport for a red-eye flight to Cleveland. The bad part about taking a night flight is that you usually arrive…
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Katharine McCormick: Choosing A Face Color
It’s Deb, back with the next episode of our project for the exhibition Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage. In Part 2, you may recall we decided to try something different and make our text collage in black and white and add the color in Photoshop. This post is about choosing the…
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Deb’s 2018 SAQA Dream Collection
It’s getting to be that time of year again. Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) holds an auction of amazing 12″ x 12″ art quilts in September. This year it goes from September 14 through October 7, so mark your calendar! In addition to seeing all the quilts, you can view members’ dream collections of six…
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Tech Tuesday: Capture and capture
I was sitting outside, minding my own business, reading a no-brainer book, when Art Brain (thanks, Lynn Krawczyk, for introducing me to the term) sprang to life. I kept thinking about an upcoming project. I wanted to have just the right color palette. Adobe Color, I thought to myself. Too comfortable to venture inside to the…
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Katharine McCormick: Creating A Cartoon
As promised, we’re back with more about our project for the exhibition Deeds Not Words: The Power of Persistence, Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage, which premieres in 2020. If you would like to read our first post on Katharine Dexter McCormick, click here. We usually start on our portrait projects by looking for a…
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Tech Tuesday: Photoshop Elements Organizer Advanced Search
One of the best parts about using Photoshop Elements Organizer is being able to find a particular photo without knowing a) the file name or b) where it is on your computer, DVD, external hard drive, etc. One of the menu items in Organizer is “Find.” Using that option, you can search for files based…
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Transparency In Fashion: Art That Makes You Think
Do you let your magazines pile up? You know–you have a whole stack that you haven’t read and then try to read them all at once when you want to clean your house. I usually do that. But yesterday I received my Surface Design Journal and while flipping through the pages, there seemed to be…
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Tech Tuesday: Watermarking your Images
Hey! We’re back with a special edition of Tech Tuesday . . . on Thursday. Many people have asked us to create a little primer on watermarking the images you want to post on the Internet. Here’s how to do it with Adobe Photoshop Elements. We’re using version 2018 in this example, but this process…
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Tech Tuesday (continued): Duplicate Photo Cleaner
I’m back with a few more tips for finding duplicate photos on your computer. Click here to read the first part of my post on using Duplicate Photo Cleaner, that nifty program that will let you find exact duplicates or photos that are similar to each other. Similarity Settings Remember that Similarity setting from our…
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Tech Tuesday: Duplicate Photo Cleaner
We’re going to start our online Photoshop Elements Organizer class soon, so I thought it would be a good time to review another program* that will find duplicate image files. The Problem Let’s say you downloaded all the photos from your phone, didn’t delete them from your phone, and downloaded them all again a…
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Photographs for Designing
I just returned from a fantastic SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) conference in San Antonio, Texas. Along with listening to lots of thought-provoking talks, catching up with old friends, and meeting new ones, I took lots of photographs. Some of these photos might look odd to you, but for me they’re textures that I might…
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Creative Block? [Part 2]
Last week I wrote about creating a quilt by copying one of my favorite artists, Maria Shell. Here’s a link to that entry in case you missed it. The first thing I learned by copying Maria Shell is that she is a master of color. Her quilts may look simple and random, and the construction might…
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Creative Block?
Sometimes you just need a change of scenery. Kris and I usually take some time off at the end of the year. For me, time off doesn’t mean stop doing. I woke up one day and wanted to DO something–create something–something different. As an artist, when you have a style, it’s a good thing. But…
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Open Closed Eyes In Photoshop Elements 2018
Try to open someone’s eyes in Photoshop Elements. This new added feature can work like a charm. It can save a group photo.