Thursday, February 6, 2014

Alternative Process - Printing Photos onto fabric

I recently saw a video on transferring a photo onto a T-Shirt and I thought this would be a really cool idea to tie in with the alternative process assignment. So if you would also like to do this, you'll need a T-Shirt, a printer, fabric transfer paper (that can be purchased at craft stores or a best buy/walmart) and the image that you would like to put on a t shirt. I suggest adjusting it on photoshop and making sure it's the size you want. You can test it out on normal paper so you don't waste your fabric paper. Also it's quite helpful if you adjust the corners so they are rounded so if it does wear it will not affect the image as much. So now that you have all of your needed supplies, follow the directions CAREFULLY on the back of the fabric paper. Make sure when you transfer the image onto the shirt that you're in a clean area on a table. Then once you feel that you've followed the steps, take the backing to the paper off then use an iron, make sure there is no steam, as this will be too hot and ruin the image. Iron on a flat hard surface, not on and ironing board. Once you've gone over every area of the image you have your finished project. I would recommend that you wait 24 hours before washing or wearing the shirt. Anyways happy printing, and good luck. I hope this was somewhat helpful.

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