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I've done a few letters and numbers by getting candy molds and using Freeze N Fuse to make them first and then tack fuse them to the tile. You can make FnF as thin or thick as you like and they are pretty well defined. There are a ton of candy molds out there in letters for very cheap. You just need...

I had to look twice at your setup, Jim. At first glance that looked like kiln washed 1x2 wood strips with the knots showing on the end in the upper right... and that didn't look like a wood fired kiln.

Mike

Not everyone has them, but I've used my scroll saw to cut 1/2 to 1" thick fiber board. It works great with a regular downward facing fine tooth blade or one of the very thin round blades that lets you go in any direction (like the blade on a ring saw but much thinner). I wear a mask of course a...

That's a cute noise. Nice and big too. :D Yea, I've got a few photos of our dogs too (I won't go into how many thousands of them I have :D). Most of ours have become service dogs (Bouviers are naturals but usually not thought of because of their long hair). Here are 3 of our Bouviers with the 2 on t...

We've lost a number of our Bouviers over the years and just lost a 15 year old a month ago. What I did was take a block of Sculpey clay and worked it until it was soft and patted it out into a round cow patty shape. Then I'd take one of the dogs feet and press it down into the clay to make a deep im...

Yes, I agree that there are some cases where you do need permission, depending on what it is going to be used for and where it was taken. It may not be in the best interest of the photographer to take pictures or do anything with those pictures in some cases, since anyone can sue anyone else for any...

Cynthia, actually, you can take pictures of people and use them without their permission... if they are in a place that does not have the expectation of privacy, which usually means a public place. Most publications require a signed release of any recognizable person because they don't want to have ...

If you are in the US, the single most important thing you can do is register your images with the copyright office. It doesn't take long, it's not that expensive and you can even do it online now. Yes, you do own the copyright to any photo you take, but it's the registration that puts real teeth int...

When I shoot I have a variety of blocks, brackets and weighted objects to lean against if it doesn't sit up on it's on. A lot of times i will lay it flat on a dark blue cloth (sometimes black) and I'll get on a step ladder and shoot straight down. If I don't feel like getting out the ladder and all ...

William, yes, I agree on the exposure and that is what has been giving me problems. I'm using two UV lights in a light table, but it's not enough, even at about 25 minutes exposure time. My next idea is to skip the exposure problem and just send a graphic image in to one of the screen printing suppl...

Excellent job. I've been playing with screen printing to do the same thing, but I've had problems getting a good image on a screen that holds the detail when I wash it out. What did you use for ink on these?

Mike

Kate, I've done this some with clay as well as fiber paper and fiber board. You need a fairly stiff cookie cutter to do fiber paper and fiber board, but it works. The trick is to over fill the cut outs as much as you can. I will either make the cutouts deeper than needed (using multiple layers of fi...

Here is a web site that has gradiant colors to use as a background on web sites. Maybe the gray one will work for you. http://www.sersale.org/gifs.htm If you do a google search on "gradient color background" you will get Photoshop information on how to create them too. The EZcube works gre...

Hi Faye, one thing I learned a long time ago... with anything I want to do, there is ALWAYS an easier way to do it. Even back in Jr. High math, I had a math teacher tell me (after we had a test where we had to show our work as part of the test) that even though I got the right answers to the questio...