How to Make an Image Transfer to Fabric, Paper, and Other Photo Transfer Techniques Presented by Cloth Paper Scissors®
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how to make an image transfer to fabric, paper, and other photo transfer techniques presented by cloth paper scissors® 1 2 4 3 1 transfer master class 3 add pattern to journals with LESLEY RILEY zentangles and transfers SANDY STEEN BARTHOLOMEW transfer master class, 2 part II: adding color twice the fun with instant film 4 LESLEY RILEY TIFFANY TESKE Zentangle™ drawing specialist Sandy Steen Bartholomew gives a tutorial on this fun doodling and art How to Make an Image journaling technique plus shows how to Transfer to Fabric, Paper, incorporate photos, text, and drawings and Other Photo Transfer in your art journals using Sheer Techniques Heaven™ image transfer paper in “Add presented by Pattern to Journals with Zentangles and Cloth Paper Scissors® Transfers.” ONLINE EDITOR Cate Prato Tiffany Teske offers a new twist on an old medium, creating photo emulsion CREATIVE SERVICES DIVISION ART DIRECTOR Larissa Davis transfers from vintage Polaroid cameras PHOTOGRAPHERS Larry Stein and new film cartridges, in “Twice the Korday Studio mage transfer techniques can Fun with Instant Film.” In this process, Projects and information are for inspiration and be used in just about any form you’re combining your own composed personal use only. Interweave Press LLC is not responsible for any liability arising from errors, of fabric and mixed-media art to photographs with the image transfer i omissions, or mistakes contained in this eBook, and create artistic visual imagery. All you process, creating a unique piece of art readers should proceed cautiously, especially with need are the right tools and the know- each time. respect to technical information. how. Interweave Press LLC grants permission to photocopy With this free eBook, How to Make an any patterns published in this issue for personal use In How to Make an Image Transfer to Image Transfer to Fabric, Paper, and only. Fabric, Paper, and other Photo Transfer other Photo Transfer Techniques, you Techniques, a free eBook from Cloth can bring a new level of personalized Paper Scissors Today, you’ll learn how to imagery to your artwork-experimenting create an inkjet transfer, photo transfer, and combining image transfer Where mixed media emulsion transfers, and transparency techniques to make them your own. artists come to play transfers using gel medium, transfer Warmly, paper, caulk, water, and more. In “Transfer Master Class” by Lesley Riley, you get the benefit of Lesley’s years of experimentation refining the process of image transferring Cate Prato techniques, even before she developed Online Editor, TAP™ Transfer Artist Paper. In this two- Cloth Paper Scissors Today part tutorial, she offers advice on how to scan and prepare your image for a digital image transfer, tips on fabric and paper choice, and options for adding color to the image transfers before and after transferring. clothpaperscissors.com Fabric, Paper, and Other Photo Transfer Techniques presented by clothpaperscissors.com ©Interweave Press LLC 2 Adapted from CLOTH PAPER SCISSORS® image transfer Summer 2005 master class y fascination with image transfers goes back 25 years to when I where to begin. Toss in the many different printers, inks, papers, and mtransferred magazine photos to fabric using various solvents. The transfer media available, and you can good news is that those transfers still retain their color after all of these years. end up totally confused with more The fabric is intact, too. The bad news is that I was using toxic solvents and questions than answers. copyrighted photos. From magazine pages, I moved on to color copies. To ensure your success, I will share my One technique called for ironing a solvent-soaked color copy to the fabric to tried-and-true methods and materials with you. But there are two things you facilitate the transfer of the toner inks. (Fortunately I was able to put out the need to know before you begin: 1) not small fire before it spread from the ironing board—and before my husband every transfer will turn out the way you found out.) Not only were there dangers and health hazards to these methods, want it to; and 2) like any technique, the but the transfers didn’t always turn out very well either. I was wasting time and more you practice, the better you will be. With that said, it is also important money at the local copy shop with nothing to show for it. that you be open-minded whether your transfers are good or bad. If you want Fortunately for artists, technological safer and easier to transfer. Inkjet perfection, forget transfers and print advances have made it possible for us printers have turned my transferring the image directly on paper or fabric. to scan, copy, and print photos in the experience from frustrating to fun. comfort of our homes. Images printed But I do know that for many, inkjet on personal inkjet printers are much transferring can still be frustrating. Above, from left: Transparency transfer onto There are so many ways to transfer book page with Soft Gel Medium; transparency transfer onto fabric (Epson); transparency BY Lesley Riley images that it can be hard to know transfer onto rust printed fabric (HP printer). Fabric, Paper, and Other Photo Transfer Techniques presented by clothpaperscissors.com ©Interweave Press LLC 3 The beauty of transfers lies in their tips Photoshop, Paint Shop, or software that imperfection. comes with your digital camera, you can t You want to use a smooth-surface adjust the contrast, the color saturation, In URGENT 2ND CLASS, author and artist fabric. Any bumps or ridges will break and the brightness of each photo. A Nick Bantock says, “There is something up the transferred image as the ink freeware program, Irfanview, is available too complete about most photos…They will hit the high spots of the fabric online and performs many of the same need a dose of controlled eccentricity but not the low spots. functions as Photoshop. that will alter and personalize them… The picture surface needs to be broken t Patterned fabrics and papers can be I almost always adjust the color and up to give it breathing space.” The way I used. The pattern will show through contrast of my images. Vintage photos see it, as long as my focal point transfers the transfer; place your image wisely fade with age. Scanners can wash out well, then I have a successful transfer. All so it won’t interfere with the details of color. The color in your own digital of the other lost parts of the picture are the image. photos can be “off.” Since the transfer what makes it art. Each transfer process process itself usually darkens the t Some papers will come apart when has a different look to it. Some may be you try to transfer with acrylic media, original colors of the image, I usually easier for you to do than others. Try sticking to the transparency or photo increase the brightness and saturation of them all if you can and see which one paper when you lift it up. Practice on the photo. you fall in love with. watercolor paper to get the technique Color and contrast adjustments can also down before you experiment with be made from the Print menu, before other papers. you actually click OK to print. When the Print box opens after you click on Print, you will see a box called Setup. Click to MATERIALS getting open this box and choose Properties. Depending on your printer model, there tCopyright free photos, drawings, or started will be a tab or box labeled Color or your own pictures For all methods, you will need to get Advanced. Clicking on these boxes will tInkjet printer your photos into your computer. The enable you to access areas where you can tScanner easiest way is to scan them. I like to make adjustments. tGolden acrylic medium, matte or scan all of my images in at 300 dpi fluid matte for fabric only; soft gel for (dots per inch). That way, if I want to Once your photos are adjusted, create a fabric and/or paper (most versatile); enlarge the image I will not lose any full page of images for printing. While regular gel medium for copy paper details. Depending on how small your you are learning, it’s a good idea to have transfers original is, you may even want to scan a page full of the same image to practice tBurnisher (spoon back, bone folder, it in at 600 dpi if you plan to enlarge with. I use Photoshop, but a similar optional straight edge or rolling pin) it to 8" 10". (Most printers won’t photo-editing program or even your t1" foam brush handle paper larger than 8.5" 11", word processing software can be used. tWhite fabric or paper (You can use so this would be the largest size you’d Use the Help function of the program to almost any good quality paper, book find out how to place several images on pages, watercolor, journals.) need unless you have a wide-carriage printer.) If your computer can’t handle one page. tSmooth, firm work surface (Cover work area with wax paper or plastic large files, you will have to settle for The next step is to prepare the document to protect surface.) smaller images or upgrade your system. for printing. The Properties tab is also optional If you have purchased a CD of copyright- the location where you will find the tDorlands or Gamblin Art Wax free images, just put the CD into your option to Mirror Image. Transferring Medium computer drive and select the images an image results in a mirror-image you want to transfer.