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Photoshop Tips: Curves

May 4th, 2011|Tutorials|

I originally wrote up this post for another reason and it didn’t get posted.  So I thought I would share it here with you.  This is one of my favorite tips for touching up your photos for posting in your Etsy shop or many other purposes.  Enjoy!

Fixing Grey and Gloomy with the Curves Tool in Photoshop

Curves is probably my favorite Photoshop “touch-up” tool.  I shoot a lot of my photos against a white background because I like the way [read more…]

In place of a shuttle launch

May 2nd, 2011|Everything Else|

Some fascinating reading.  At least to sewing geeks.

NASA’s standards pushed the very limits of the equipment used by ILC, as well as the very limits of the seamstress’s own technique. The tolerances allowed — less than a sixty-fourth of an inch in only one direction from the seam — meant that yard after yard of fabric was sewn to an accuracy smaller than the sewing needle’s eye. To achieve such precision, many women used a modified treadle that, instead of starting and stopping the Singer’s operation, fired one stitch [read more…]

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A real princess

April 29th, 2011|Everything Else|

The lace appliqué for the bodice and skirt was hand-made by the Royal School of Needlework, based at Hampton Court Palace.  The lace design was hand-engineered (appliquéd) using the Carrickmacross lace-making technique, which originated in Ireland in the 1820s.  Individual flowers have been hand-cut from lace and hand-engineered onto ivory silk tulle to create a unique and organic design, which incorporates the rose, thistle, daffodil and shamrock.

I am totally fascinated with the details that the royal wedding people [read more…]

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