Friday, June 7, 2013

Ink Jet Printing

I've made a lot of deconstructive screen printed fabric over the last couple of years and it's hard to know what to do with it.  It's a very busy fabric and sometimes hard to match with other fabrics. 
I haven't printed anything using my printer in a while and thought I might try and print on a piece - just to see what would happen. The piece was a little paler than the picture shows and I was hoping that some of it would peek through the ink jet print.
I found a couple of images in my files that I thought would blend well when layered. I took this photo of an old rock building in Waynesville
and this of an old train trestle in Athens, GA where my daughter went to college. I blended the 2 photos in Photoshop Elements. The most fun part is trying all the options for blending once layered; I usually use "overlay" which shows both photos equally blended but this time the option "Difference" was really effective.
 I used 100% opacity so I wasn't sure if it the fabric would peek through, but it did and I'm very happy with the print as a result. We'll see where we go from here.

5 comments:

  1. Hi, Judy. I really like the result you got here. Subtle, yet distinctive.This has so many possibilities. Looking forward to seeing what you do with it.
    best,
    nadia

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  2. Very interesting result. I love PSE.

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  3. The piece is great! You certainly got a great print from your photo(s)!

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  4. I really like your piece...I may just have to try something with my printer...

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  5. I'm on my way over to your house right now.....warm up your ink jet.......I'm bringing all of my deconstructed prints!!! Grinning.... Seriously...this is a really neat solution to tame that fabric!

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