Tag: Photoshop
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#internkelly, Signing Off
Hello friends and followers! Today will be my last day as an intern here at Pixeladies Studio. Although I will certainly miss “working” (if that’s what you call sitting around, laughing, and having fun) with the wonderful Deb and Kris, I look forward to taking everything I have learned here with me as I continue…
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Tech Tuesday: Adobe Color CC
One of my absolute favorite things the Pixeladies have shown me is the Adobe Color CC website (they teach this in their Advanced Photoshop class, but they let me work ahead a little). This site allows you to create your own unique digital color swatches online, which you can then apply to your Photoshop workspace.…
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Tech Tuesday: What Our Students Learn
We just ended our Photoshop Elements Essentials I and II classes. Wow! What amazing students. Their creativity never ceases to amaze us. We’ve rescheduled the series again in June (please see our classes page for more information). We’d normally want to tell you ourselves how great the class is, but we’d rather you heard from…
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Tech Tuesday: Reminder for Photoshop Classes
This is a friendly reminder that our next Photoshop Elements class starts Monday, January 12. This first class is really suited for beginners and for those who want a refresher or need help finding their way around the Photoshop Elements 13 workspace. Both three-week classes come with videos, handbooks, and three live webinars. Students tell…
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Tech Tuesday: Photography, Photoshop, and Classes – Oh My!
We’re getting ready for the new year and new classes, so we thought we’d show you a couple of photos that will illustrate 1) how great a tool Photoshop can be, and 2) that nothing helps a photograph better than a good photographer. When we were in Houston this past October, we had Bonnie McCaffery…
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Tech Tuesday: Online Photoshop Classes Start January 12!
The new year will bring with it new Pixeladies classes. We’re starting out with two beginning classes on Photoshop Elements. These three-week classes come with videos, handbooks, and three live webinars. Students tell us they really appreciate the individualized feedback. We hope you can join us starting January 12! Click here for more information and…
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Tech Tuesday: Removing Backgrounds from Quilts
Quilt photography is a necessary expenditure of time and/or money if you want to enter your quilts in shows. Our advice is to have have your work professionally photographed. And that’s ususally what we do. But there are those cases when you don’t have a good photograph. You know, the time when you are so…
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Update on Florida Photoshop Retreat
There’s still time to register for the Florida retreat March 12-14, 2014. We’ve updated the class description to make it more individualized. Bring any project you want to work on or start from the very basics. We’ll be able to accommodate you! We have a new title for the class, too – Photoshop Elements for…
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Tech Tuesday: An Apple A Day
We have recently been creating fruit using words and phrases cut from magazines and newspapers. We started with a tomato. SacraTomato is the pet name for our city, and some of the text was about issues surrounding California’s migrant and sometimes undocumented farm workers. Now that we’ve moved onto apples, we wanted to take up…
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Tech Tuesday: Pixeladies To Teach Photoshop Classes Live!
That’s right – we’ll be teaching LIVE and in PERSON at all three venues in 2014. We are so excited about these opportunities. We love teaching online, but we thought it would be fun to have some special face-to-face time with our students. We hope you can join us at Kona, Hawaii; New Smyrna Beach,…
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Tech Tuesday: Photoshop Is Not Just For Designing Fabric!
What do you think of when you hear a quilter is using Photoshop? Manipulated photos printed on a home printer? Kaleidescopic images? Tiled pattern repeats? Yes, Photoshop is good for this, but it’s so much more. Photoshop is also a tool to help you finish that UFO (unfinished object) that’s been sitting in your closet…
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Tech Tuesday: Creating a Custom Brush
It finally happened. After all these years, I found the need to create my own brush shape in Photoshop. I’ve created many custom brush shapes, but they were just to show people how to do it. But this time it really came in handy. If you are a frequent reader, you may recall that last…
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Tech Tuesday: How To Resize Images In Photoshop
I have learned a lot of new skills during the first week of my internship. One thing that I learned was that when you are uploading photos to the internet, you can resize them so they open quickly. I had used Photoshop before but never to resize photos for the internet. Here are the steps:…
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Bilbergia Design
When the world is fast asleep, I sometimes have spurts of creative energy. Or was it because I had lunch with mega-creative Carla Barrett? Or perhaps it’s because I should be doing some accounting work and am just a great procrastinator? Whatever the reason, I had fun playing with Photoshop last night. I decided I…
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Tech Tuesday: Creating A Pattern That Repeats Seamlessly
People have been asking what we’ll learn in the Designing Fabric with Photoshop Elements that starts on Monday. Well, we always say lots of things, but that’s not really a good answer. Besides adjustment layers, blend modes, and defining patterns, we also show you some tricks to making your own seamless repeats. You do so…
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See Us In “Metropolis” at the Blue Line Gallery
Kris likes to celebrate her birthday MONTH (January), but sometimes the DAY (Jan 10) can also be extra special. This is gonna be a good one. Our piece, “Hong Kong in Yellow” opens today at the Blue Line Gallery in Roseville, CA. The exhibit, Metropolis, focuses on cityscapes. “Hong Kong in Yellow” is really a peek…
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Designing Fabric with Photoshop Elements Begins Jan 28!
There’s no better way to start a new year than with a new class. If you’re looking into checking designing fabric off your bucket list, we’d love to see you in our online class: Designing Fabric with Photoshop Elements.Want to learn how to turn a photo into a border print, design fabric for that special…
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Photoshop Elements 11 Has Arrived!
All I can say is WOW! Adobe has been listening. The Photoshop Elements (PSE) desktop has been completely revamped in Version 11. Here are some of the changes I’ve noticed: PSE has now gone back to the light gray desktop. (Finally!!! People have been complaining about this since the change—was it around version 7?)…
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Tech Tuesday: Top Ten Reasons to Take Our Online Photoshop Class
Our online class, “Photoshop Elements for Fiber Artists and Sewing Enthusiasts,” starts on Monday, September 17. Some of you out there might be considering whether to take the class or not. We thought we should help you decide by giving you our top 10 reasons to take the class: 10. This class really is for…
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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: 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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Our Online Photoshop Class starts March 5!
Are you interested in learning Adobe Photoshop Elements but don’t know where to start? Why don’t you start here with us? Our online class, Introduction to Adobe Photoshop Elements (PSE) for Fiber Artists and Sewing Enthusiasts, begins this coming Monday, March 5. Cost for the 3-week class is $60. To register for the class, go…
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Class Registration Starts Today!
Yes, you can now register for either of our two online courses that start in October. Click on this link to take you to the class page. We’ve been teaming up with Carla Barrett, long-arm quilter extraordinaire, to bring you innnovative online classes, and we now have a new teaching website – www.StepOnPins.com. We think…
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Join Us at the ASG National Conference!
We’re packing our bags for the American Sewing Guild’s national conference in Los Angeles August 19-21. (OK, that’s not really true. We’re actually running around getting all of our teaching materials ready, but that doesn’t sound like the organized Pixeladies we always claim to be.) Despite this small confession, we really hope you can join us there.…
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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…