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Created by Francine Dufour Jones May 2, 2008 at 4:55pm. Last updated by Francine Dufour Jones Oct. 28, 2008.

How to Prepare a File for Internet

First your image must be a smaller size than you would use for printing. For the internet make your images
72dpi. If you do not have a program to do this here is a free download. This program is very easy to use.
You can take all your images in one folder and make them web ready (optimize) or you can do one at a time.

You will need to optimize images to share on the internet, send in email, web sites, and up load here on your member page.
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Created by Francine Dufour Jones May 2, 2008 at 5:02pm. Last updated by Francine Dufour Jones Sep. 11, 2008.

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Joanna Read Cotter added a discussion to the group Silk Painting Basics

Has anyone tried affixing their silk to rice paper?

Hi there! I'm curious to see if anyone here has tried affixing silk to rice paper or some other paper of the sort - were you happy with the results? I'm interested in making book covers and light boxes or lamps with scraps of my work as I accumu...

10 hours ago

Joanna Read Cotter replied to Joanna Read Cotter's discussion 'Sennelier Water-Based Gutta - any positive experiences?' in the group Gutta and Other Resist

Hi Maria! Thank you so much for your suggestion, that makes so much sense! I will try your method out this weekend and post the results! I'm curious to see if this gutta will wash out completely without leaving any outline like the solvent-based ...

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Maria Jürimäe replied to Joanna Read Cotter's discussion 'Sennelier Water-Based Gutta - any positive experiences?' in the group Gutta and Other Resist

Hello! I have experiences with different water based guttas, right now I mainly use Marabu. But they all tend to stick while steaming, but you just have to put the silk into the water with the paper! Then the gutta goes away easily and the silk wi...

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Silk Painting Basics

Ideas, tips and possible solutions for basic silk painting challenges.

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Joanna Read Cotter replied to Joanna Read Cotter's discussion 'Sennelier Water-Based Gutta - any positive experiences?' in the group Gutta and Other Resist

Pauline, Thank you so, so much leaving your comment and for your kind words. I'm going to give the Sennelier another shot with a practice piece tomorrow - I'm curious to see if it really was my steaming process or if it's in fact a problem I'm ha...

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