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More fun with Photoshop

As promised, let me tell you how I printed the hexagon images for the second Paris quilt. First of all, I made a template document that had a line drawing of a hexagon in the correct size. See the image at the bottom of the page. Then, when I finished making a line drawing from a photo (see previous post), I dragged the template on top of the photo, selected the area inside the hexagon with the magic wand, and deleted it. I printed three hexagons on each 8.5 by 11 fabric sheet by dragging them onto the page. (Hopefully, there will be a photo at the bottom showing the print page.) My biggest challenge was to print each photo in red, green, and blue, as well as black. I didn’t want a duo-tone, which had shades of black and gray in it.

    1. It took a lot of tries, but here is what I came up with. I added a New Fill Layer, and chose Solid Color, but did not choose a color. I changed the blending mode to Color Burn, and that was where I selected the color I wanted, and clicked OK. I set up a printing page that I could drag the images onto by adding three Fill Layers, one for each color. I hid all the color layers to print in black and white, then opened them one at a time to print the color images. I printed four copies of each hexagon, black, red, blue, and green, then discarded the hexagon layers and added three more to print the next set.  I needed a total of 83 hexagons, so I printed 7 pages of each color, giving me 84.                                                                                                                 hexagon-template-sm.jpg               print-page-2-sm.jpg        �

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