Finished first project. Did a sample rug.The pink section was 2" strips I had already riped. The blue section was 2" strips cut on a Rigby strip cutter, then ran it through a bias tape tool and ironed. Ended up with 1/2". No raw edges on the blue section and could lay the fabric flat on the edges. Hard to see from pic. Had to scan original pic. because original pic file was too big to down load onto Weavolution. (2 mgs is too small). Most of my pics. end up 3.5 - 3.8 mgs, so if I print from my file then scan that pic. it ends up about 1/5 the file size. Can you increase the down load size so I want have to print, scan then down load? Pics end up really grainy, fuzzy and hard to see datails. Any way, I think I going to really enjoy this and I'm really going to try and make a business out of rug making. We are getting ready to retire and I need something that I will enjoy doing, and why not make a littlle money at it............................................Steve104c
Steve, whatever you are doing with your photos works fine for detail. When you click on the image in your message it increase in size.....the rug looks great also! Deb Mc
remember that somewhere in Weavolution they are having to pay for image storage so we want to communicate, we just don't want to communicate in excruciating, costly detail
Deb Mc, Thinks for the info. I took a look at your profile and saw some of your projects. Nice. Just getting started but really like the patterns in your rugs. Want to learn that technique of weaving in patterns. Thanks again............Steve.
Deb. Found a solution to my pic. down load problem. Bolivia warmi ( member) told me how to make the pic. file smaller with Microsoft Office Picture Manager. Works great. I changed my pic. in my post and it worked w/o a problem. Thanks for the compliments. You do very nice work. Do you sell your work? Is it a profitable business?...........................Steve
I sent you a PM Steve with some info so you can load a bigger picture without it being heavy in bytes and we can get to see your rug better.
Thanks Steve, glad Laverne could help you find a MS solution. she is the best with info, check out her blog for mindblowing hand work.
Re profit, I can't pay medical bills but I can pay for conferences and lessons with what I make from weaving. Think of it as golf, you buy the equipment and pay dues to play. We don't have to feel compelled to make a profit just because we bought weaving equipment. The process is part of the joy. Sometimes you can make $$ from weaving but there is stiff competition everywhere and you have to find your niche. Search around Weavolution and you'll see lots of comments from folks in some of the forums about selling. There is also a yahoo group call Rugsales, search around yahoo and you will find it.
Enjoy the journey! Deb Mc
I didn't even realize this came with Microsoft Office. I usually use Paint, and Adobe Photoshop LE that we have installed on our desktop computer. I'll have to play around with this software.
I use Photoscape for cropping, resizing pictures.
It can't fix my blurry pictures, but it handles everything else.
Have a good day!
Franco Rios
Tina, Go to Programs ,then to Microsoft Office, then to Microsoft Office Tools ,then to Microsoft Office Picture Manager. Dbl. click on the picture you want to compress. On the right hand side of Microsoft Windows Picture Manger click< edit picture>, then at the bottom of right hand window click on <compress> then click on- <compress for documents>-<web page>- or <email>. This will compress the picture to about 1/5 the original file size. Now you can send your picture almost anywhere. Be sure to copy your original picture to a different file because this will permanently compress your picture...............Steve
thank you for the info; I have MSoffice on my computer but never realised it has also this item . I must explore that more and make more of that software packet.
Thanks for the details. I made the picture smaller, but used a different method that was more cumbersome. And here's a picture I resized this wasy. It's mug rugs I bought at an Indian Trading Center here in Albuquerque. They haven't been cut apart yet, but I'm going to leave them this way and use it as a wall hanging.
