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19th Century Mathematics

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September 6, 2010

Math is fun.  The basic math functions are emboldened below in beautiful calligraphy.  I’m digging the variety of the designs, perhaps school children (and their parents) were bored with math a hundred years ago just the same as today.


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Lobstah

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August 17, 2010

Look at this cute piece.  I love animals in artwork and this would look so cute on a menu or marine website.  This one took quite a bit of work to remove the background and get a pretty layer of the drawing, but I’m learning and really enjoying the design work in this old cyclopedia.


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Divider from 1882

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August 12, 2010

The scanning is going a bit slow in the middle of our unpacking.  But I am figuring out, by trial and error, how to get the images from the scanned pages.  On this one I actually used the channels to make the light grey of the design a deep purple and selected for that color.  I filled in the selection on a new layer and bam no more background or noise.  😀


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Royal Fun

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August 3, 2010

Although I enjoy the intricacy of the ornate gates and borders the simplicity of these crowns is also very appealing to me. What is also really great about these patterns is that just a small (relatively) image can be uploaded and repeated as a tile and background color can be coded instead of changed in photoshop every time. Hopefully I’m not channeling the 90’s too much with this tiling.


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Borrowed Gate

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July 29, 2010

My journey through seamless patterns has definitely been a learning experience. I’m so excite to share a little about what I have learned in this little series.

This next background I did get the image from The Graphics Fairy.  The original image was from an 1895 hardware catalog:

I think that is just so cool.  Not exactly the kind of door you could find at Walmart, eh? I love the design but no doubt a hand-drawn image is never a seamless pattern from the beginning.  Jacob showed me how to straighten a picture, which was crucial for the side bars to be exactly up and down.  I used the ruler tool to pick a point at the top of the picture and at the bottom of the picture that I wanted to be aligned, for instance the right side of one of the vertical bars in the image.  Then Image>Image Rotation>Arbitrary will line up those points.  I had to do a lot of hand editing on this one.  The realignment left holes on either side of the pattern and the top didn’t match up well to the bottom but I added some extra bars and hand drew the bands with the pencil tool.  I put a lot of time into it but it is probably my favorite background I’ve made, out of like the six or so I’ve made so far.


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Dragonflies

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July 28, 2010

As I uploaded this I realized how Orvis-y the tan background color made this pattern look. This image came from the wonderful graphics fairy. I cleaned it up and arranged it to make a calm pattern. This is the pattern I used for my sister‘s blog.


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Background Crazy

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July 27, 2010

In the current redesign of my blog as well as my sisters, I’ve been figuring out how to make new original backgrounds. I can’t wait to share them all with you. I’ve just been so intrigued with how to make seamless tiles that aren’t lame. Jacob is thinking of making a website for some of them so that you can give them your own colors and download the tile 😀 That would be awesome.

The Graphics Fairy is a great place for images in the public domain.  I’m totally inspired by some of the patterns I see in the graphics found there.  I clean up the images and give them a transparent background.  But the hard part is lining them up to be repeats.  The final image is totally worth it though.  Enjoy!


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