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Blending Photos with Fabric 2
More Great Ideas to Combine Photography, Printing and Quiltmaking

Author: Mary Ellen Kranz
Pages: 144
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: The Electric Quilt Company
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4B0140
Weight: 1.30 lb
20% off: $23.96
MSRP: $29.95

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Get Ready
Take photos from computer to fabric:

• Choose the best digital camera and printer for your needs
• Take better pictures
• Make do-it-yourself fabric sheets
• Edit photos in 10 easy steps

Design
Learn from Mary Ellen's design ideas how to:

• Avoid the "bulletin board" effect when combining family photos
• Incorporate poetry into your quilt
• Extend quilting from the photo into fabric
• Create a "window pane" effect with a photo

Learn Computer Techniques
Learn to use Paint Shop Pro™ Photo to:

• Turn any photo into a kaleidoscope design
• Create unlimited color variations of a photo
• Print long strips of text for borders
• Turn one photo into a long photo strip
• Enlarge a small photo to quilt size
• Create large text images to fuse

Bonus! Download the EQ6 project files for select quilts from the web.

About the Author

As a quiltmaker, teacher and author, Mary Ellen Kranz shares her knowledge of how to combine quilting, digital photography, and computer software with quiltmakers across the country. Her quilts appear in shows and galleries and reflect a broad range of quiltmaking skills and techniques.

Mary Ellen Kranz has sewn and quilted since childhood. She found her career path in the computer field but continued to pursue quiltmaking. Twenty years of experience teaching computer technologies provided her with an understanding of how PCs, printers scanners and digital cameras could blend together in the process of creating fiber art.

Mary Ellen's classes provide an opportunity to try out these tools and the latest quilting software under the guidance of a creative and patient teacher. For the past twenty years Mary Ellen has taught throughout the country at shops, guilds, regional quilting events and national conferences.

Mary Ellen was featured guest on Alex Anderson's Simply Quilts on HGTV. Her articles Joyful Image Quilts, Julia's Quilt and Window Box have appeared in popular magazines. MaryEllen and Cheryl Hayes are co-authors of Blending Photos with Fabric: A Beautiful New Way to Combine Photography, Printing, and Quiltmaking published by The Electric Quilt Company (2004, out of print).

Mary Ellen Kranz lives in Belfast, Maine in the summer and fall and Greensboro, North Carolina during the rest of the year.

Instruction Page

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Includes section on
Fabric Printing

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