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> On Jun 23, 2020, at 7:34 AM, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a suggestion for Christine from my days of shooting product for > market research , which I'll go into below. > > But to clarify, dan, what I do is design patterns in Photoshop Elements > usually starting with photos but not necessarily and put the designs on > cafepress. > in my "shop" there and on thier market place. cafepress has a lot of > products they can and do put my stuff on and the affiliates on the market > place select them to put on t shirts, mugs, wall hangings, linens, and > calendars of course. I also put some designs up on site that mainly produces > yard goods but > I found it a bit too complicated a procedure and one had to buy a sample > patch for $5.00 before they would add your design for them to sell publicly.. > it is called Spoonflower .. they have design competitions too, but all of the > fabrics are yardage of repetitive patterns , I was more interested in > stretching > a specific image to cover the whole area of whatever I wanted to make - which > I was able to do in cafepress when I desgined a duvet cover and pillow for > myself in 2018.. I showed off that fabric when you came to visit last year, > Dan I just ordered some fat quarters from Spoonflower. Quality was decent, but I don’t think I ordered the higher grade fabric. I didn’t design a pattern—just ordered someone else’s design. > Christine - one thing I did to photograph artwork and especially things that > had, as you said, shiney bits, is to get some polarizing sheets and > put them over lights on stands to the left and right of the subject at 45 > degree angles , and shoot with a polarizer on the camera.. I did this to shoot > packages of foil wrapped candies on a shelf - a real PITA.. Can't remember > where I learned that - but I think it came from an article in one of the > old photo magazines - and this was in the day of film, of course. The filters > on the lights were rotated so that they would be at crossed Nichols in > relation to the filter on the camera. Excellent suggestions, Anne, I’ll definitely try this! Copied to my notes! Big thanks! Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
