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Start again with a new copy of your original. Save each version, so you can refer to it later if you like. If you aren’t getting the results you want, try doing them in a different order, or try some of the other effects. Experiment with the settings as I describe them below.

every photo has different qualities and will require different effects at different settings.

That way, if you need to start over with your editing, you can go back to the original photo.

make a copy of your original photo before doing any editing.

select a photo with good contrast – strong light and dark values.

The full-size copy of the back, which is the mirror image of the design, is used to trace the elements onto fusible web. The full-size copy of the front is used as a master pattern when positioning the fabrics to ensure correct placement.

Many of my pet portrait quilts are about 16 x 18 inches. Then I take it to a FedEx/Kinkos Copy Centre and enlarge it to the actual size of the quilt.

The marker pen shows on the back of the paper which gives me a mirror image to use for tracing onto the fusible web. I outline each value with a Sharpie marker pen. Once I’m happy with my edited photo, I print it on 8.5 x 11 paper and draw in any necessary lines or details with pen. For example, in Picasa the black and white effect is named B&W in other software programs it may be called gray-scale. There are many other photo-editing programs available, and most have similar effects – although they may have different names for the effects. I will continue to use Picasa to edit my photos, just because I’m familiar with how it works and I like the results. I usually manipulate my photo with Picasa – cropping, increasing the contrast if necessary, changing it to black and white (to ensure I have enough value differences), and ‘posterizing’ it to reduce the number of values and to create distinct edges for each of the values. I always start a portrait quilt from a photo.