Category: Tech Tuesday
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Tech Tuesday: Why We Love Our Google Calendar
We’ve been working as the Pixeladies since 2003 (wow!) and started off with our nifty online Yahoo calendar that we used for everything. It seemed to work just fine, thank you very much, and I (Kris) had no need to change. Deb, on the other hand, is always rooting around the technosphere looking for ways…
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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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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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Tech Tuesday: Changing Your Brush Size
Sometimes I really hate drop-down menus. Take the example of changing brush sizes in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. I have to move my mouse, stylus or finger all the way to the Options bar, then click, then decide what a good size would be, then move my mouse, stylus or finger back to the image…
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Tech Tuesday: Keeping Transparent Images Transparent
Many bloggers have Wordless Wednesday, when they just post a photo. If you know us, (and when I say us I mean me, Kris), you’ll know we’re never at a loss for words. With that in mind, Deb suggested we start Tech Tuesday to address some of those random Photoshop questions students often ask…
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Tech Tuesday: Our Holidays (and Business) begin with Gail Bird
Can it really be that eight years have gone by since we went to our first quilt show for research purposes? If the calendar doesn’t lie, it really has been eight years since we met Gail Bird of Russian punchneedle fame. We watched her create her own booth buzz and inspire people to try something…
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Organizing Patterns with Photoshop Elements
At the American Sewing Guild’s national conference in Los Angeles, we gave a short presentation about organizing your patterns with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements. The Organizer portion of Elements is a great way to catalog photos, videos, music, and yes, even sewing patterns. If you want to use the tags we created for patterns, save the…
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Tech Tuesday: Quirky Photoshop
At some point in time, our friend and colleague, Carla Barrett of quiltwhisper.com fame, convinced us to start teaching online with her. I don’t know why we ever waited. It’s such a blast. We are right now in the throes of the class Introduction to Photoshop Elements for Fiber Artists and Sewing Enthusiasts. Oh, and…