The picture of the 9 pages that I printed for the fabric panel was submitted to the 'printing on fabrics gallery'. I have a picture somewhere of the finished quilt that I'll try to submit tomorrow. I seamed/assembled the blocks into the center fabric panel, added a green border, then added pieced nine-patch blocks set on-point and another wider brick red border. BTW, it took awhile to track down the artist and then after emailing for a time, was given permission to print on fabric and to make this quilt for my personal use. Thanks Laura Y. I need to find some copy write free art work that I can use, since I was not gifted with any talent to paint or draw. And my photos are not all that good either....

Gail, I think that if the paper backing is that difficult to get off, you have a bad batch of Printed Treasures and should contact the company for a replacement. (I don't know if they actually will replace it, but I would certainly try! There is no excuse for having to soak and scrape the paper off, IMHO.)

As far as whether to upgrade Photoshop Elements... Adobe comes out with updates once a year around the September. I personally like to update every other year (unless I'm taping videos and need the latest and greatest. If I were you, I'd wait until version 9 is announced and then upgrade to that.

Any chance you could upload your fabric panel to the Printing on Fabric class gallery? ([url]learn/classrooms/[/url]) I'd love to see it!

I've been busy printing on three different printers that I have at home. I've prepared some white and tea dyed cotton fabric using the BJS and rinse and experimented with Printed Treasures. I had difficulty getting the paper backing off the Printed Treasures. I had to soak and scrap the paper off for the quilt I did. The fabric I prepared worked fine in all the printers I tried. The two Epson and one HP deskjets both experienced some jamming but I did not want to give up. I found that I really use a lot of ink too. I really prefer the Epson for color. I've used Elements Ver 7 and am contemplating upgrading to the new version. Any suggestions on if I should or not? I find that I really like the possibilities. My latest project was taking a large poster that I had, I cut it into nine blocks like a nine patch), color copy each patch (enlarge 115%) onto fabric and then sew the nine patches together to make a large fabric panel. What fun!
Gail

That is really cute.

Awesome Mary Kay!!

That's so cute, Mary Kay!

Here's my latest project with printing on fabric. I found the photo of the car, printed it out, cut it out, thread painted it and collaged it onto the other fabrics. I pieced the surfboard and the dog is a magnet.

Anne-Marie, The paper settings are based on the printer driver - not Photoshop. What kind of printer do you have? If you list the choices you're given, I might be able to help you choose one. (You don't need to list any choices with the words "glossy" or "luster", since those are obviously not matte.)

Jeanie,
The lessons were great and very timely for me as I am just at the stage in my new quilt where I need to print out some photos. My problem being that I have Photoshop CS4 and when I got to the stage of choosing the paper settings there seemed to be dozens of options and none mentioned the word matt. Please HELP.
Thanks, Anne-Marie

Edna, the cat pillow I made (pictured in this same thread earlier) was done on an HP Deskjet with dye based inks. I've used that same printer to do some photo wall hangings that have been on the wall for several years (but not in direct sunlight, of course) and the colors still look fine.

Edna, You can use your HP for printing on fabric - lots of people do! (I just mentioned the Epson DuraBrite ink because I'm always asked (at shows) what printer I use.) With the HP, just make sure you set the ink before you get it anywhere near water. I say this from experience since I have dripped water on sheets that were not yet set and ruined them because water marks appeared. Also with the HP, you'll want to protect the print from bright light since the images won't be as lightfast as pigment inks are.

Any ideas on getting a cheap Epson printer that uses durabrite ink. I just bought a HP printer before your lessons came on. I don't have money for another printer right now. What to do?

Thanks, Jeanie! This cat is actually the "person in charge" in this house. I'm only here to see that she gets fed, has warm places to sleep, and has access to her sheltered backyard when she needs it. So, of course, she'd have to be the subject of this pillow!

AWESOME job Carole! DH is always asking me why I haven't made any quilts with photos of our cats. After seeing your pillow, I know I have to do one.