Image Transfer
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Image Transfer Methods for Art and Craft Purposes
A collection of image transfer methods. Check out the "Featured Image Transfer" module! Image transfer techniques have become popular among artists, artisans and crafters, especially for collages and many types of altered art, as well as on fabric for quilts and t-shirts. Here you will find links to instructions for the various types of image transfer using inkjet, photocopy, laser, polaroid pictures, magazine images, photographs, etc. onto a variety of surfaces including paper, fabric and polymer clay.
Image by Kwanz on Flickr using a Creative Commons Commercial-Use License.
Contents at a Glance
- Featured Image Transfer
- Inkjet Image Transfer
- Ideas For Using Image Transfers
- Transfers and Altered Images
- Interesting Image Transfer Methods
- Watch Various Image Transfer Methods Dem...
- Image Transfer Methods for Photocopies &...
- Packing Tape Image Transfer Demo
- Image Transfer Methods for Photocopies &...
Featured Image Transfer
38.212 degrees N, -122.337 degrees by tea-and-biscuits on Flickr
Inkjet Image Transfer
There was so much information about inkjet image transfer I had to make a lens just for it.
Ideas For Using Image Transfers
Pick one you like and vote for it!
Make a Polymer Clay Pendant
See instructions in the polymer clay module below.11 points
Transfer a Rusty Object Image to Fabric
Find the link with instructions in the module belo more...6 points
Make a Digital Polaroid Image Transfer in Photoshop
Find the link with instructions in the module belo more...5 points
Make a Transparent Photograph for a Scrapbook Page.
See below for instructions how.3 points
Make a Self Portrait Mask with Photos and Polymer Clay
See the link below that says Lazertran Polymer Por more...3 points
Make a Paper Bag Scrapbook with Tape Image Transfers
See YouTube Video towards the bottom of this page more...3 points
Make a Warhol-esque Art Piece with your Photos.
See below for how-to instructions.2 points
Make an Art Card from a transferred Rubber Stamp image
See the link below that says Easy Ink Transfer Car more...2 points
Make a Collage Using My Faux Image Transfer Technique
Scroll down to see how.2 points
Make a Faux Italian Fresco Art Piece
See instructions below "interesting image tra more...1 point
Transfers and Altered Images
#5342 Transfers and Altered Images
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Interesting Image Transfer Methods
These Don't Fit Into Just One Category
- Common Transfer Techniques
- An outline of different technique with some nice images of finished art.
- Great White transfer technique
- Great White transfer technique by Lisa Cook. Look in the "supplies" module for the link to get the paper she used.
- Various Transfer Techniques to Hard, Smooth Surfaces
- Everything from Inkjet to Laser Printer to Pencil to Ink...
- Digital Darkroom Forum: How to do gel transfer (Xerox, not Polaroid)?
- Different responses to the question of how to transfer a photocopy using gel medium.
- Several Different Transfer Techniques
- Tape, Gel, Blender Pen, etc.
- Easy Ink Transfer Cards: Create Ink Transfer Image Cards with Rubber Stamps
- Speciality tools and products make ink transfer an easy option for card making. Norma Anne Chattin demonstrates how easy it is to create depth and dimension in card art.
- Acrylic gel medium transfers
- Detailed description of the acrylic transfer process with pictures.
- Photoshop How-To: Recreating Polaroid Image Transfers
- Here's how to digitally recreate the look of dry, emulsion, and SX-70 transfers.
- Transfer a Rusty Object Image to Fabric
- Transfer rust patterns to fabric. Very cool.
- Chart of Different Transfer Methods
- Handy chart.
- Image Transfer Techniques on "Still Alive"
- A couple of different image transfer techniques, one using Modge Podge and the other a clear sheet protector.
- Thursday’s Tutorial: Packing Tape Transfers » ScrapScene
- How to make packing tape decals.
- Image Transfer Methods Tutorials
- From caulk to waxed paper transfers and everything in between, Cyndi has created some very nice transfer tutorials at her Layers Upon Layers blog.
- Fresco Tile
- A video showing how to make a tile using the Tilano fresco tile kit.
Image Transfer Methods for Photocopies & Laser Prints to Paper
- Photocopy Image Transfer
- The method described uses "cellulose thinner" or Xylene.
- Image Transfer For Card Making And Scrapbooking Made Easy
- If you want to transfer images easily with no fuss and mess, just get some clear cellophane tapes and follow the step by step instructions.
- Photocopy Transfers Using Solvents by Melissa Chapin
- Toxic, but effective.
- Scrapbooking : Simple Image Transfer : DIY Network
- Create a see-through image on your scrapbook page using clear packing tape, duplicate photos, and water.
- Imitating Art - Warhol-esque Project
- Uses image transfer techniques to make a Warhol-like canvas with photographs.
- Photo Transfer Art : Home & Garden Television
- Use photocopies to add an aged look to favorite pictures or art.
- Tools of the Trade: Transfer an Image
- How to use a Chartpak Blender Marker to transfer images. (Kansas City Artist Trading Cards blog.)
- Omni-Gel Image Transfer Tutorial ~ The Spotted Sparrow
- Tutorial on how to use Omni Gel Image Transfer medium.
Image Transfer Methods for Photocopies & Laser Prints to Fabric
- Ranger Ink Perfect Fabric Medium: Postage Stamp Pillow Pendant
- Create a fabric transfer pendant.
- Ranger Ink Primitive Patchwork Sachet
- Use Perfect Pearls, Perfect Fabric Medium and Adirondack® Colorwash to create this pearly, vintage style sachet
Image Transfer Methods for Photocopies & Laser Prints to Polymer Clay
- "Ancient Pottery" - Transfers to Polymer Clay
- A lesson plan for making a small pieces of faux ancient pottery using photocopied designs for decoration.
- Liquid Clay Image-Transfer Purse:
- Complete how-to from HGTV.
- Jewelry : Image Transfer Pendant
- A polymer clay project from Donna Kato on the Carol Duvall Show.
- Lazertran Polymer Clay Tutorial
- Scroll down the page to see an example of using Lazertran Silk on polymer clay.
Polaroid Image Transfer
Needs special equipment but is a cool technique!
- Polaroid Transfer Tutorial at Sarah Wichlacz
- Blog entry with instructions for polaroid transfers.
- My Polaroid Transfers. Stories behind Images. How to start.
- Polaroid image and emulsion transfers. Tools & techniques. Personal projects. How to start Polaroid transfers.
- Cheap and Cool Photos
- Clear instructions on how to do both an image transfer and an emulsion image transfer using Polaroid pictures.
Rub-Onz Transfer Film
Grafix Clear Rub-Onz Inkjet Laser Film, 8-1/2-Inch by 11-Inch, 4-Pack
Amazon Price: $5.86 (as of 02/13/2012)
Design your own rub-on transfers! Customize your own fonts, photos and clip art to adhere to all kinds of surfaces. Rub-Onz transfer film comes with 2 films; a Frosted film for drawing or printing your design and an Adhesive film with a blue liner.
Image Transfer Supplies for Artists, Artisans and Crafters
- Product Discovery: JudiKins TranzIt Rinse-Away Paper
- A cellulose based transfer paper for use with laser printers and copiers (NOT inkjet printers).
- Transfer papers for artists - Lazertran
- Lazertran papers - premium waterslide decal transfer papers for Fine Artists & Crafters
- JONATHAN TALBOT: TACKING IRONS /IMAGE TRANSFER PAPER
- TACKING IRONS / RELEASE PAPER / IMAGE TRANSFER PAPER / MORE
- TAP - Transfer Artist Paper by Leslie Riley
- One of the experts of image transfer has developed her own line of inkjet transfer paper.
- Tilano
- Different image transfer kits from tiles to magnets to glass, etc.
Image Transfer Medium
Books Containing Image Transfer Techniques
Other Books With a Few Pages About Image Transfer
And a lot of other cool stuff!
My Faux Image Transfer Method
For When You Want a Sharp Image
Image copyright Gretchen Little.
Okay...I made this lens not because I do a lot of image transfer but because I was looking for good information about it for artists and found a lot of garbage to wade through. The librarian in me couldn't resist a chance to create order out of chaos. BUT...I do like the distressed look and idea of an image transfer, although I also like the end result to be a crisp black image. Therefore I invented my own way of getting a faux transferred image look. I use it for paper collage whether the receiving surface is paper, canvas, wood, etc.
This is what I do:
Okay...I made this lens not because I do a lot of image transfer but because I was looking for good information about it for artists and found a lot of garbage to wade through. The librarian in me couldn't resist a chance to create order out of chaos. BUT...I do like the distressed look and idea of an image transfer, although I also like the end result to be a crisp black image. Therefore I invented my own way of getting a faux transferred image look. I use it for paper collage whether the receiving surface is paper, canvas, wood, etc.This is what I do:
- I print out an image on my laser printer, but a photocopy will work too. Inkjet prints will bleed if you paint on top of them, but the toner from the laser printer or photocopier is waterproof and even acts as a resist 90% of the time.
- At this point I can color the image either with paint, ink, pastels, colored pencils, etc. I use watered down acrylic paint or watercolors. I keep a paper towel handy to blot paint that gets too opaque where I don't want it to, although that can add to the image transfer effect. Sometimes I wait to color it until I've attached it to the rest of the collage.
- I like to tear my image and leave the edges rough, but it doesn't really matter. Depends on how distressed a look you want.
- The I attach the image to the substrate. I've been using gel medium lately having experimented with just about everything else. It wrinkles sometimes but that just adds texture.
- I will usually put another layer of color on after the gel medium has dried. Sometimes I'll rubber stamp on top of the image. Overlapping onto the artwork underneath with color and stamping makes the edges less noticeable.
- And that's it! You'll end up with something like the image at the top of this module. It is actually a combination of this method and a partial image transfer from a technique I learned from Claudine Hellmuth's DVD and then modified. The words and heart were done as described here, but the spirals were put face down after being coated with gel medium, then the paper was lifted off before completely dry. That left a clear image with some of the fibers from the paper but they are practically transparent when painted and just add texture to the canvasette underneath.
1930's Waxed Paper Transfer
My parents told me that when they were kids they used to spend hours transferring the Sunday newspaper comics by rubbing them with waxed paper, then rubbing the waxed paper with the transferred comics onto other paper.
Fave Artists Blogs/Sites
- Jack and Cat Curio
- Two mixed media artists based in Phoenix, Arizona. We crave all things: old and rusty, vaudeville and burlesque,pinups and rockabilly, voodoo and magic, carnivals and circus acts, old locks and keys, romance and Paris, silent film & Hollywood, vamps and sirens, murder and mayhem, ghosts and hauntings, breakfast and coffee, legends and myth,Broadway and Ziegfeld, music and comics, Heroes and villains
- "T"eresa Stanton
- This is a collection of "T"eresa's image transfer art on Flickr. She also has an Etsy store called ARTicles by Teresa that's worth checking out.
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Done any transfers lately?
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Milanho
Feb 1, 2012 @ 4:57 pm | delete
- Nice lens.
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Milanho
Feb 1, 2012 @ 4:57 pm | delete
- Nice lens.
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vekoslavr
Jan 23, 2012 @ 7:00 am | delete
- Great. So many ideas..
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flycatcher
Jan 21, 2012 @ 1:27 pm | delete
- Although I wasn't even a distant hint of a shadow of a blip on Fate's radar in the 1930s, when your parents were doing their waxed-paper comic-page transfers, I did spend many happy hours doing the exact same thing, four decades on! Blame my hopelessly un-hip but very creative and frugal mother for that one. :)
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jadehorseshoe
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