Comments on: OOh! My Spoonflower Fabric!

By: Sister-Diane

Sister-Diane — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:28:57 +0000

ejzmom, I cheated a little on the dpi, but it didn’t affect the quality of the finished fabric too much. I don’t have access to Photoshop these days, so I used iPhoto on my Mac instead. When you export an image from iPhoto, you can set the quality level: Low, Medium, High, or Maximum. I went Maximum, which gave it a higher dpi, but the software doesn’t indicate what it actually is.

One thing that did make a difference: I made my flowers very large in the Flower Maker, screen-captured them large, and then reduced their size in the composed image I created.

By: Sister-Diane

Sister-Diane — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:28:00 +0000

One thing that did make a difference: I made my flowers very large in the Flower Maker, screen-captured them large, and then reduced their size in the composed image I created.

By: ejzmom

ejzmom — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:31:44 +0000

It’s so pretty. a question… after you screen-capture the flowers do you have to increase the resolution or dpi to send it for printing? as i read from Spoonflower blog that the patterns have to be uploaded at 150dpi. thanks.

By: ejzmom

ejzmom — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:31:00 +0000

By: dmollison

dmollison — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:38:27 +0000

OH! That is beautiful. I just placed my first order last night. I’m so excited. Well done with those flowers.

By: dmollison

dmollison — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:38:00 +0000

OH! That is beautiful. I just placed my first order last night. I’m so excited. Well done with those flowers.

By: Shannon of Mayabella

Shannon of Mayabella — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:30:34 +0000

That is gorgeous! And the reds came out so nice. I am still trying to work out my fuzzy images! Frustrating. But I love Spoonflower!

By: Shannon of Mayabella

Shannon of Mayabella — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:30:00 +0000

That is gorgeous! And the reds came out so nice. I am still trying to work out my fuzzy images! Frustrating. But I love Spoonflower!

By: Bridget B.

Bridget B. — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:32:30 +0000

Eeee! I got my spoonflower invite a week ago, and just haven’t figured out yet what I want to try and have printed . . . I get giddy as a schoolgirl, though, each time I see some new blogger post about getting their fabric . . . this concept is brilliant!!

By: Bridget B.

Bridget B. — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:32:00 +0000

By: Steffen

Steffen — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:10:06 +0000

this is seriously very cool and what a great piece of fabric to do something really nifty with- good luck and well done

By: Steffen

Steffen — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:10:00 +0000

this is seriously very cool and what a great piece of fabric to do something really nifty with- good luck and well done

By: Sister-Diane

Sister-Diane — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:00:16 +0000

Jeanetta, to get those flowers, I used something called Grab, which is a built-in screen-capture utility on my Mac. With it, I can select any section of the computer screen, and Grab saves it as a GIF file. Then I converted the GIFs to JPEGs, and used them to build the design.

If you use Windows, you might try this technique for getting a screen capture: http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/general/ht/winscreenshot.htm

By: Sister-Diane

Sister-Diane — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:00:00 +0000

If you use Windows, you might try this technique for getting a screen capture: http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/general/ht/winscreenshot.htm

By: jeanetta

jeanetta — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:23:46 +0000

i have a quick question about the flower site. how were you able to capture or save the flower image once you created it. did you just print them out and rescan them because i cant figure out another way of using my flower designs. thanks.