I did it for free and it was so much fun to try. The web site where I created this is called Polyvore.
Here is how to do it.
Step 1: Go to www.polyvore.com and create an account. (It's free.) There are tutorials on the Polyvore site as well as around the web. You need to upload Polyvore's "CLIPPER TOOL" so you can "grab" images from around the web and download them into the Polyvore database. (There are a lot of images already in the database, although many of them are fashion and furniture photos and we wanted to try something different.)
Step 2: Now, to create a "set". First, we found a really terrific fabric site called http://www.equilter.com/ As an aside, here is what I LOVED about equilter.com. You can select a fabric and then easily find coordinating fabrics using a simple two-step process!! First, click on a portion of the fabric's image where there is a color you'd like to find. After you click, the target color will appear in a box off to the side and then you just click "FIND THIS COLOR" and up pop oodles of fabrics in the color you have chosen. It's so quick and easy!
Step 3: Download the fabric images to Polyvore.com using the Clipper Tool (from step 1).
Step 4: In Polyvore you "create" a set (or design board). You will find the things you've downloaded under the tab marked "My Items". You can drag them into your set - but sometimes the colors will look washed out. The reason is that Polyvore defaults to removing the "background" of an image so you need to go to the "background" pull-down menu and select "Keep". To make smaller cut-outs we did "Background - Custom" and "cut away" some of the fabrics (use mouse clicks to put little squares outlining the portion you want to keep). You can "clone" the shapes you have created and then arrange them on your set.
Here is the final design with a list of the fabrics we used (please note: I have no financial connection either to Polyvore or to eQuilter.com.)
Items in this set:
eQuilter Candy Stripe Ensemble - Sweet Lavender, $9.50
eQuilter Doll Dresses - Micro Dots - Lt Honey, $9.50
eQuilter Guatemalan Flora - Starburst Posies - Persimmon, $9.25
eQuilter Spring Fever - Chipper Pin Dots - Capri Blue, $8.95
eQuilter Prep School Wovens - Candyland Yarn-Dye Plaid - Watermelon, $8.50
eQuilter Candy Stripe Ensemble - Sweet Lavender, $9.50
eQuilter Doll Dresses - Micro Dots - Lt Honey, $9.50
eQuilter Guatemalan Flora - Starburst Posies - Persimmon, $9.25
eQuilter Spring Fever - Chipper Pin Dots - Capri Blue, $8.95
eQuilter Prep School Wovens - Candyland Yarn-Dye Plaid - Watermelon, $8.50
It was so easy - we downloaded and created this entire sample in about 15 or 20 minutes. Quite an innovation, eh?!
0 comments:
Post a Comment