FREE DESIGN TUTORIAL OSEBERG

I heard yesterday that the Collins online dictionary has included chillaxing as a word along with some other equally dodgy words, most of which I had never heard, even from the daft 'amazing' 'journey' 'on my page' '24/7' people
I know that language evolves.  I remember only too well 'swinging' & 'dodgy' not with the same meanings of today's people
English is such a complicated language.  A mix of old English, German, Latin , French, probably Norse, Gallic & who knows what else.  Fascinating program on the Box (that's not a box any more, its a slim black slit) with Neil Oliver the archaeologist

A story of the Vikings.  Now I have a Viking in my family, so I am very interested in his history
20 of so years ago I was studying for my City & Guilds Part one, one of my design 'boards' or sheets was the Oseberg ship

Imagine my delight when a nice large chunk of the program was on this fabulous ship, with its cargo of 2 bodies, both women.  One nearly 80 and another younger woman, who was of mixed race.  So very exciting to hear for me.  As I welcome all of my Viking son in laws family into my family.

I then got very carried away with the patterns on this replica

SO HOW DID I DO THIS?

 

PROGRAMS:  Microsoft WORD 10 & Corel Photopaint 9

Other programs will work too

I have Photoshop Elements but am being a bit tardy at learning how to use it!

I am busy discovering all the Word has to offer

 

Save your picture in your photo software.  I use Picasa 3, which is a free program from Google.  Okay its a bit annoying sometimes, but it is free and so easy to use

COPY your picture to the CLIPBOARD

The wonderful clipboard that holds images or text or both for you in temporary waiting for wahtever you want to do

Open up Word

Open a blank file, name it what ever you want, mine is Oseberg!

Save it

PASTE your image in the page (Edit paste or control V)

Save the page call it Oseberg1 or whatever

Click on the image to bring up the HANDLES

Drag a corner handle to make the image larger or smaller

SAVE as Oseberg2

SAVE each stage as a new file, then it is so easy to undo or not lose your work if you have a power failure, like we had TWICE yesterday..why? have no idea, save you work at each stage, you can always delete the files later

There is a really nifty tool in WORD.  You can eliminate the background!

This is what I have done here.  Ive only just discovered this, very exciting

CLICK  on the picture

Look at the bar at the top of the program andyou will see a tab PICTURE TOOLS

CLICK on this

A flyout will give you options, the first being

MARK AREAs TO KEEP

click on this & handles will appear on your image, the greyed out (purple in my case) area is the area that will be CUT AWAY

drag the handles until what you want to keep is in focus

then click on

KEEP CHANGES

DONE

Background has vanished

SAVE

I then copied the image to the clipboard (edit copy or shortcut control+C)

and pasted it back (edit paste or shortcut control+V)

Then I went to play

Under PICTURE TOOLS

you have PICTURE EFFECTS

Click on those and play around, I used the Reflection option

Remember to SAVE

When you have finished playing around.  SAVE & then COPY to clipboard

OPEN UP COREL photopaint or some other software

OPEN FROM CLIPBOARD

OR

Paste

Your image will appear

Then it can be played around with in software that you can save it as a Jpeg.  Which will appear in Picasa to play with their Free edits.

Word does not save it as a picture file, so to upload to you on the Blog, I had to copy it to Corel

Finally for this tutorial

EFFECTS - COLOUR TRANSFORM

PSYCHEDLIC 176

How about that!

Its so strange where inspiration can come from, and what it can lead too - I could play and play with this.  But I think printing it out onto cloth is the way to go and using it as an applique, they all face the same way, but if I do reverse or mirror on my printer then I could get a reverse

Or re-copy back into work and flip it

Oh the joys of our computer age.  Back to the dark ages when I originally worked with this image, it was all done by hand and a black and white photocopier, no not the good old days, give me now and the very strange language

Do let me know if you have a go, also if you know other yummy simple things to do with basic software

Thanks for reading

I am off on a 2 day course - images will appear, maybe not tomorrow as its BOAT group in the evening but on Friday and over the weekend.  Im not saying who with - wait and see x