Friday, July 9, 2010

Feeling Inept



I have been struggling this week with getting a good photo of one of my new quilts. I'm trying to finish up the pattern jacket for Gift Wrapped, a rich pink and brown quilt I designed to feature Marcus Brothers' Olde Cedar Chest fabric collection. Here's one of the photos. The cute little dog is my daughter Diane's maltese, Jack. Isn't he a doll? We've been dogsitting a lot lately and I couldn't help wanting to put him in a shot.Here's another photo.
Now, to me, these don't even look like the same quilt. But the real problem occurs when I paste the photo into the pattern jacket using Adobe Photoshop. The jacket looks good on the screen, but when I print it, it has a distinct green cast to it. I've tried to adjust it in several ways, but the image still comes out with the green cast. Do any of you have any suggestions for how to fix this? I am really feeling inept and frustrated at this point.

3 comments:

SandyQuilts said...

I've read that this software is good
http://www.picnik.com/

Lynn Douglass said...

I love the new quilt! Of course, I want to kiss all over Jack's fury little neck, too! I'm not much help with the photoshopping issue. Hopefully, someone else can help out.

jograma said...

I just love this quilt! DO you have a pattern out yet? Where can I get it?