How I Prepped My Design For HTV 😅✨ The Long-ish Version

[@theanomalysews]

Loved seeing you go into detail on how you achieved this. I recently painted a custom dress with fabric paint on my channel, and getting crisp lines was a challenge. This comes out so beautifully. Incredible work as always!

[@arvettadelashmit9337]

At my time in life (75 years old) I don't think I will ever use a machine to do this for me. It will be patchwork, applique, embroidery, and beading as always for me. However, if I were young I'm sure I would try this. You do beautiful work.

[@apriljodoin9643]

At 74, I concur 🎉

[@damogranheart5521]

At 74, I respectfully disagree. I think that I bloody well deserve clothes that fit well and make me smile when I see myself in a mirror. I also want more cloaks in my life. And gloves. Gloves are sexy. Do I want to try beading? You betcha! I want to try oodles of new or old things. I still love to learn!

[@lynn858]

I did not know about "difference". Could come in handy. Thanks!

[@evadeleon3009]

Super excited to try this out!!!

[@paintingwithnicole]

wow!!! a new video and it's not even thursday

[@tiffanytomasino335]

This is pretty cool to watch. My general take away for stuff like this is: patience. Lots of trial and error and the willingness to sit through it til it's what you want. Thank you for sharing

[@inkwingart]

As an actual design/illustration person, your process is actually pretty close to how i clean things up from a sketch and how i prep files for gold foil printing etc. but for getting the really clean shapes in photoshop i will use the pen (vector) tool to trace the edges.

[@inkwingart]

Also as a tip, the left bracket and right bracket keys on the keyboard decrease and increase brush size respectively ;)

[@armedvsokord]

This is very cool. Thank you for sharing.

[@kobaltkween]

If you only have a mouse, it's probably much simpler and easier to just trace a scan with a pen/vector tool than clean up the scan. Photoshop, Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Inkscape, etc. all support this. Whatever you're comfortable with and can afford, including free. Oh! And of course, if you can select something in Photoshop, you can invert the selection, adjust the selection (smooth, shrink, grow, etc.), and convert the selection to a path. Then edit that path to your liking.

[@damogranheart5521]

Oh, my stars! Wow! The results are beautiful! Thank you for the tutorial. 🖖📚🫖🐈‍⬛❄️

[@chaeburger]

This is really cool! I feel like I learned a bit about photoshop!

[@molnotmole3428]

I still use my phone to design/sketch cross stitch patterns and pixelated projects. Use what works best for you for whatever you do!

[@jenniferh376]

When finding images, if you don’t need to edit the image, you can skip using photoshop. You can copy it directly to the Silhouette software, and use the trace tool to create the cut lines.

[@llamabean529]

I used to use the a vector graphic program called inkscape and it had a trace image function which made it super easy to get your images without many artifacts. I also preferred vectors because the lines were smooth and it just skipped a few steps, the only caveat is the the program has a steep learning curve because it's technically free.

[@vikachan19]

I came here to mention this. Waaaaay easier to clean up, vector, etc. Paste, select, trace image, set high contrast or multi colors, smooth, done. Obv a little more than that, but I do this all the time for my industrial cutter (the 2'x10' capacity USAcutter iirc)

[@anna46792]

I actually seen htv and silhouette cutter’s specifically but I’ve never actually used them before. This was really cool.

[@bethliebman8169]

Painstaking and so cool.

[@robintheparttimesewer6798]

Very nice! I'm still going to make a kid figure it out. When it comes to computers I lost the advantage once they learnt how to read!

[@MsHedgehog]

You do not have that tool *yet*.Yet is an important word here. I am not a photoshop or digital graphics person of any kind, my sister however is and the increased ease of use she told of is enormous. Price range has gone down a lot since they first came to, you can get a usable one for about 30 dollars nowadays. Perhaps think of it as the digital art version of having dedicated fabric scissors?

[@jennglow4647]

Very pretty 😀

[@marynimocks6791]

Magic!

[@michellebyrom6551]

This looks great for repeat production. For a one off, I'd use a more traditional hardware approach, it suits my hands on impulses. Lovely, crisp lines though. That's a different challenge woth traditional stencils.

[@dianeworthley2865]

I have watched your evolution for many years now. Your imagination just incredible! I’m just in awe with how beautiful this dress design turned out. Have you ever considered investing in an embroidery machine?

[@TheClosetHistorian]

Thank you Diane! I have no interest in an embroidery machine I'm afraid, as I love doing embroidery by hand, and use beads and sequins 99% when doing so anyway 😅✨

[@SZMTHEKING]

Magnificent 🍷🦇🖤🎩

[@AnniCarlsson]

your keyboard make it feel like you use my pc 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@michellecornum5856]

. . .poking around the software until I got myself in trouble 😂