tutorial photos on Flickr

Please join me on the blog today as I make up a simple, weighted blanket - commonly used for people with sensory disorders, those on the autism spectrum, and to help treat anxiety conditions.

This version is made in flannel and bound with a 1/4" double-fold binding. It weighs 4 pounds, with 6" channels, and measures approximately 39" by 51".

Transfer Tutorial-13 by AlisonR.W.

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Cellulose tutorial

Making A Button-Fly: A Tutorial by kelly

Coming soon - and by request! - another button-fly tutorial! Made on a velveteen trouser.

A "Scanner Darkly" Try by Tennessee_Gator

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I did this and my goal was to emulate the " A Scanner Darkly" in Photoshop without using brushes and doing hand coloring. Below is my method. Inside the red oval in the photo is the original.

1. Duplicate background layer.

2. Command/control + shfit + u to desaturate.

3. Duplicate "Layer 1" to "Layer 1 copy" (command/control + j with the layer chosen).

4 Invert "Layer 1 copy" (command/control + i)

5. With "Layer 1 copy" chosen run Filter > Blur > Motion blur at angle 23 and distance of 500 (this can be different depending on the photo.... experiment). This gives you a sketch look.

6. Holding the shift key choose "Layer 1" and "Layer 1 copy" and do command/control + g, putting the sketch effect into it's own group. You can name it sketch if you'd like.

7. Click the eye next to "Group 1" or "Sketch" if you've renamed it to turn it off.

8, Click back on the background layer and duplicate it again (command/control + j)

9. In CS2 and above run surface blur at Radius: 50 and Threshold: 50. This unifies the colors. Prior to CS2 try gaussian blur, but I'm not sure what settings.

10. With the "Background copy" still chosen on the Layers Panel use the keyboard shortcut command/control + ] to move the "Background copy" Layer above "Group 1". You can also click and drag it if you insist on using the mouse.

11. Put the top "Background copy" layer in multiply mode and click and turn ON the eye next to "Group 1". You should now have a sketchy photoish piece. But there's more because we need to get those lines like a comicbook drawing.

12. Holding the option/alt key down, from the Layers Panel's adjustment layer menu add a posterize adjustment layer. The option/alt key brings up a requester and you should check the "Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask." This clips this layer to the layer immediately below it, the "Background copy." Set the levels at 8 on the next requester and click OK.

13. Now before you click anything else go Edit > Fill and choose black filling the adjustment layer's mask with black, taking away the affect.

14. Now, with the adjustment layer's mask still chosen, Go Filter > Noise > Add Noise and move the slider all the way to the right. I chose gaussian. This softens the edges of the edges.

15. Lastly, go the the adjustment layer menu again add a "Photo Filter" adjustment layer and choose "Cooling Filter (80)" or warming filter, whichever you prefer.

You're done. Now the methods here opens up many possibilites. think about it.

Tutorial & Review Images by Ann Nguyen

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Decoupage Drawers, Before and After by Dan and Fern Treacy

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Part of my tutorial found here ---> notnigella.com/2008/05/19/blockposter-decoupage-drawers-t...

Tutorial. by Jayne

Hanging Organizer with clear vinyl pockets. Perfect for just about everything!

Tutorial:

fortworthfabricstudio.blogspot.com/

Weighted Blanket Tutorial by kelly

Please join me on the blog today as I make up a simple, weighted blanket - commonly used for people with sensory disorders, those on the autism spectrum, and to help treat anxiety conditions.

This version is made in flannel and bound with a 1/4" double-fold binding. It weighs 4 pounds, with 6" channels, and measures approximately 39" by 51".

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails by Violet LeBeaux