The Photo Transfer Handbook
Book Review
Aug 27, 2007 Mary Welling-Bonney
Have you tried the Photo Transfers you can do right on your computer that turn your photo into fabric that can be sewn? Think of the possibilities.
The Photo Transfer Handbook by Jean Ray Laury is just the ticket to help you with all of your photo transfer projects. It gives step-by-step directions for transferring photos on your computer printer or using a copy machine. Ms. Laury has done a very thorough job in writing an informative book that will assist you with editing your photo, altering your photos and removing the nonessential elements.
She begins her effort by going over all of the copyright issues. For those of you with any concerns or confusion about what is allowable, this is great information to have on hand as a reference book.
The Photo Transfer handbook gives project ideas you can make and keep or give as gifts for the holidays. She accompanies her quilt and pillow project ideas with directions for making personalized quilts or pillows. She also includes ideas for clothing, dolls and more advanced quilts.
One of the real surprise treasures of this book is that Ms. Laury includes methods for altering the color of the transfer after the transfer is made. She includes directions for adding or removing color and gives instruction for other options to alter the colors for different effects.
Photo Transfer is really in its infancy. There have been methods available for creating photo transfers for some time. They either took special equipment or chemicals not readably available or it was costly. The new technology makes photo transfer truly available for all now and it is exciting to see where it can take us.
If you think this is not within your reach due to difficulty in finding the materials, you couldn’t be more wrong. It was expected that to acquire the materials, a person would need to do some timely research online. Then it would mean paying too much plus shipping to get it home. There was then the concern that it would be too complicated or require chemicals not found around the house. All of this is incorrect.
It took no more than a trip to the local craft chain store. When asked if they carry the materials for photo transfers, they had eight to ten different varieties. The materials were very reasonably priced and upon reading the instructions, very usable.
If you have any concerns, purchase the materials and use The Photo Transfer Handbook for your own personal tutor.
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