Welcome to the 21st century! If you own an inkjet printer, you don’t need a print shop to copy photos and other images onto fabric and feature them in quilts and crafts. Technology giant Hewlett-Packard brings quilting into the new millennium with state-of-the-art techniques. Learn to capture images, create your own printed fabrics, print on fabric, repair antique quilts, make custom quilt labels, and take full advantage of today’s technology.
• 12 quilt and accessory projects make the most of your photos and graphics
• Easy enough for beginning computer users and quilters
• Find the latest technology for working with digital cameras, scanners, injet printers, all-in-one machines, and more
• Complete, step-by-step instructions with lots of how-to photos
• Not just for HP products - use with any brand of inkjet printer or scanner
Review By: Melisse Laing, Daily News, Longview, WA - July 2, 2004
Hewlett-Packard is an innovator in using photos and graphics...easy enough for beginning computer users and quilters, and can be used with any brand of inkjet printer or scanner.
Review Quiltniews - March 1, 2005
Mentioned in this foreign language publication.
Review Sewing World - December 1, 2004
This comprehensive guide is full of wonderful ideas to help create a unique family heirloom or the most personal of gifts.
Review The Bookwatch - July 1, 2004
Even beginning computer users and quilters will find Photo Fun a simple process, offering basics on how to take good photos and successfully incorporate them into a quilting project.
Review Patchwork Quilt Journal - September 1, 2004
Reviewed in this foreign language publication.
Review Quilter's World - October 1, 2005
Hints for taking good photos, scanning existing photos, editing photos and more are included in an easy-to-read format. I highly recomment this book for those beginning to transfer photos to fabric.
Review thequiltingcoach.com - February 28, 2008
"Tradition meets technology and memories are made with Photo Fun. Transfer pictures to fabric Quickly, Easily and Perfectly EVERY TIME!
Whether it's a favorite vacation spot, a picture of a patriotic celebration, your favorite pet, or a favorite family picture, following the easy-to-understand instructions in Photo Fun, you can create a design, scan a photo into your computer, edit it to make it more real or more creative, and print it onto fabric, with lightening speed. Use your computer, scanner and ink jet printer – any brand, almost any age.
Once the pictures are on your computer, you will see exactly how to:
* Select exactly which part of the picture you want, and delete the rest
* Adjust the color to give your picture just the right effect
* Restore old pictures - preserve your great-grandma's birthday picture taken when she turned 5
* Print your picture on fabric at the snap of your fingers
Not only that, but Photo Fun provides tips for taking photos so you get the perfect picture every time. You spend less time fixing the picture and more time making the quilt or fabric postcard.
Photo Fun, from C&T Publishing, was created with you in mind. It's a joint project of quilter, Cyndy Lyle Rymer, and the Hewlett-Packard Company - the computer printer company. Using their combined expertise, you can create the perfect centerpiece for your fabric quilt postcard. And this guide is written with the computer novice in mind - no techno-geek-ism required here.
Photo Fun is the perfect resource for printing on fabric. I have spent more than $75.00 of my hard earned cash on all of those other books about transferring photos to fabric so you wouldn't have to.
This book is the best - it has all the basics, and is written in an easy-to-read style. It’s perfect for any level quilter. Once your copy arrives, you’ll know immediately what a wise choice you have made. (My copy is already dog-eared and coffee-stained, and I just got it a few short months ago!)"
Review The Midwest Book Review - January 1, 2010
“Quilters looking for something different will relish this approach…offers twelve quilts and accessory projects using color photos and graphics, and easy picks for beginners in either computers or quilting. From finding the latest news on working with digital cameras and scanners to using and brand of inkjet printer or scanner for polished results, this is a fine crafts title for any quilter seeking to personalize products.”