Pumpkinspun’s Musings

A question was posted on Ravelry asking about the use of Photoshop to sample over-dyeing yarn. As I’m always looking for new ways to show my Photoshop students to play with colorizing images, I took this challenge up and came up with a method that seems like it might be useful in doing actual over-dyes.

In the example below, I used Image>Adjustments>Photo Filter: I checked the color box and click the color to change to the overlay color I wanted to simulate, in this case a deep blue, then cranked the density up towards 100%. I selected a blue to overlay over the pink yarn in the example below:

Of course, real over-dye results will vary depending on the yarn, fiber type and dye you actually use, but this seemed like a way to get a ballpark look or play with color if you have an idea you want to experiment with. If you’re familiar with using masks you can also mask out certain areas or use selections to colorize parts of a skein of yarn for a variegated yarn design.

Your thoughts?

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Years ago, back in my Compuserve Spinners & Weavers days, I wrote up a little tutorial that came about when I was helping someone online try to use their Support Spindle. And for years, the tutorial sat on my computer, until Ted asked me to share it last year. This prompted me to give it a small tweaking and redo as a pdf. And it sat again, for nearly a year.

I’m finally sharing it with those of you who just need a little extra printout to refer to. When I get around to getting a camera with sound, I’ll do up a little video to go with it, but there are plenty of good spinning videos out on the net already.

So here’s the tutorial, and if it helps you at all, please leave me a comment on the blog.

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I’ve added some of my most recent Spindle Jewels™ earrings to the blog. For wholesale orders, I am starting to fill Springtime festival orders, and can do a small amount of Christmas shop orders. Just give me a yell thru the contact link above and I’ll get right back to you!

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