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Designing
a Quilt |
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1. Choose a quilt pattern and save the image to your
folder.
2. Do a search for some interesting backgrounds to
create your quilt. Save at least 6 backgrounds and or textures.
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3. Open up your quilt image, resize and save in your
folder.
The image should be in an RGB format. To verify this, from
the menu go to
Image---->Mode---->Choose RGB.
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Resize the image, by going to
Image------>Image size and change the size of the width to
600 pixels.
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| 4. Open all your
backgrounds and or textures and follow the same steps. |
| 5. Open your quilt pattern and your
first background/texture you want to use. You will drag the texture
to your quilt picture. Be sure that your quilt is above your
texture/background. |
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| 6. Use the magic wand tool to select
blocks of your quilt to delete to reveal the texture below. Make
sure that your quilt layer is highlighted.
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| 7. When you are satisfied with the
amount you want to reveal, then merge the two layers together.
On the Layers Palette, click on the arrow and choose
Merge Visible.
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The image becomes one layer again.
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| 8. Open up your next image
and follow steps 5-7! Repeat the steps until your quilt is
completed. |
| 9. Save your quilt when completed in
the finished quilts folder. |
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| 10. You can change the overall colors
and look of your quilt by trying different settings in Photoshop.
Try some of the suggestions below. |
| Goto Menu
Image-------->Adjustments------->Hue and Saturation |
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| Adjust the settings!
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Also try some of the other adjustment settings, and see
what happens. |
| In photoshop CS2 you can also use a new fill
or adjustment layer to do the same thing or some other nifty changes.
A better way of doing it as it becomes a new layer that you can delete or
make invisible if you don't like it. You can also add additional
layers with changes and see what happens. These layers are also used for
lightening pictures and color correction.
Try it and experiment!!!!
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