Skeletons Danse Macabre - Shirt - Transfer Failure - Photograph

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I took that photograph of the transfer failure result when I used an inkjet fabric transfers paper to iron my "Skeletons Danse Macabre" shirt design onto a 100% cotton black shirt. I know I have used that transfer paper successfully in the past, but I didn't recall how I did it, and the instructions were unclear about how long to iron for / when to remove the paper backing. So as I pulled up the paper backing, part of the ink remained adhered to the paper, which tore off of the shirt. Thus ends my attempts to make my own shirt designs. The juice ain't worth the squeeze, especially with the cost of everything skyrocketing due to inflation.

"Skeletons Danse Macabre ("wdl")" - Shirt 8" x 8"

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This week's Our Midweek Muse theme was "Dancers".

A close friend of mine had sent me a photo of a Halloween shirt with witches dancing on it, which inspired me to make my own shirt design, an 8" by 8" image that I will print onto 8.5 x 11 inches inkjet fabric transfers paper, to iron onto a black shirt. (My dancing witches design is still in progress, because as usually happens with me, one thing led to another, and I saw a movie that showed two Medieval images that I wanted to use: one for the witches, and this one with the skeletons.)

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

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Important Printing Notes:

Irfanview

To print it onto a fabric iron on transfer, it needs to be mirror image flipped:

Image - Horizontal Flip

*** The below steps are important to do before printing, otherwise it will get cutoff on one edge if it is done in Portrait!!! (for 8.5 x 11 inches paper size) ***

File - Print

Set it to Landscape (NOT Portrait!!!)

Set Print size to Original size (from image DPI)

Set Position on paper to Centered

Print Quality: High

Tabby Cat - Photograph

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It's been about seven months since I last made a blog post featuring my "cat", as Teddy calls him ;-). I cherish him and am grateful to have him in my life. This photo of him is from a long time ago. I've been resolving computer issues, and part of that involves a "Swedish Death Purge" on all of the files I have, to reduce how much space I will require on a new computer's hard drive.

And for anyone out there who uses the Windows Operating System: I highly recommend making a bootable USB memory stick / USB flash drive or bootable DVD, using Microsoft's Media Creation Tool. If your computer crashes, you might be able to get it working again by booting from the USB drive. (There are more instructions than that, but for now, I'm providing the Microsoft links, without those additional "how to" steps.)

Windows 10

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Create Windows 10 installation media

See the section about "Using the tool to create installation media (USB flash drive, DVD, or ISO file) to install Windows 10 on a different PC"

Windows 10 Media Creation Tool download link:
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=2265055

Windows 11

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11

Create Windows 11 Installation Media

See the section about "Before you begin using the media creation tool"

Windows 11 Media Creation Tool download link:
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2156295

How to add extra G'MIC Filters for use in GIMP on Windows 7

How to add extra G'MIC Filters for use in GIMP on Windows 7

Copy the desired .gmic extension files to folder:

   C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\gmic

Notes: If folder gmic doesn't exist there, create it first. Username is your computer login username.

If GIMP is already running, on the main menu, start G'MIC by selecting

   Filters - G'MIC

Press the Reload button and the additional filters should appear in the list.

When you exit GIMP and start it later, the filters will appear automatically.

Note: I copied the following files to my directory:

http://gmic.sourceforge.net/compatibility.gmic
http://karo03.bplaced.net/gmic/karos.gmic
http://s406833247.websitehome.co.uk/gmic/photocomix.gmic
http://gentlemanbeggar.bplaced.net/gentlemanbeggar_gmic.gmic
http://www.saunalahti.fi/naggobot/naggobot.gmic
http://www.iain.bplaced.net/iain_fergusson.gmic
http://s406833247.websitehome.co.uk/gmic/garagecoder.gmic
http://www.aljacom.com/~gmic/samj.gmic
http://docgmic.tuxfamily.org/zonderr.gmic
http://www.h-ps.demon.co.uk/GMIC/jayprich.gmic

I had a problem trying to get this one:
http://www.tkfilter.bplaced.net/tomkeil.gmic


photocomix has the Steampunk Pencil filter that went missing from the EXE install.


The latest version of G'MIC can be found here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmic/files/

GIMP Installation Instructions

GIMP Installation Instructions

Note: These instructions are for 64-bit Windows 7

Important Note: You must install Python before installing GIMP 2.6.11, otherwise Python-Fu won't appear in the Filters menu, Python plugins won't appear in the Help - Plug-In Browser, and Python plugins won't appear in your menus.

If you already installed GIMP 2.6.11, you need to uninstall it, and then install it again. This time it should have the Python support box checked and non-grey this time. You will have to make the change to default.env again, after you re-install GIMP, but your GIMP Folders changes should be retained (the uninstall doesn't delete the GIMP folder).

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Installations prior to GIMP

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Install 7-Zip version 9.22Beta

website:

http://www.filehippo.com/download_7-zip_64/

source location:

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\sevenzip_7-Zip

destination location:

C:\Program Files (x86)\7-Zip

Install IrfanView

website:

http://www.filehippo.com/download_irfanview/

source location:

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\IrfanView

destination location:

C:\Program Files (x86)\IrfanView

Install IrfanView plugins

website:

http://www.brothersoft.com/download-irfanview-all-plugins-164981.html

source location:

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\IrfanView

destination location:

C:\Program Files (x86)\IrfanView

Install Ghostscript 9.04

website:

http://www.ghostscript.com/download/

source location:

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\www_ghostscript_com\Ghostscript

destination location:

C:\Apps\gs\gs9.04

Add system environment variable GS_PROG with full path and filename for the Ghostscript executable, to allow GIMP to find it. GIMP uses Ghostscript to be able to open .EPS files.

GS_PROG

C:\Apps\gs\gs9.04\bin\gswin64.exe

Install GTK+ version 2.16.6

website:

http://www.gtk.org/download/index.php

source location:

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\Imaging\www_gtk_org

destination location: (simply unzip the file to here)

C:\Apps\opt\gtk

Add User environment variable PATH for the bin directory path.

PATH

C:\Apps\opt\gtk\bin;

Install Python version 32-bit 2.6.6

website:

http://www.python.org/

source location:

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\www_python_org

destination location:

C:\Apps\opt\Python26\

Install GTK+ for Python version 2.22.6 for 32-bit Python 2.6

website:

http://www.pygtk.org/

source location:

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\Imaging\www_pygtk_org

destination location:

C:\Apps\opt\Python26\

Install MinGW version 20110316

website:

http://www.mingw.org/

source location:

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\www_mingw_org

destination location:

C:\Apps\opt\MinGW

Install G'MIC

website:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmic/files/

source location:

D:\DATA\DVD02\Reference\Crafts\GIMP\Scripts\sourceforge_net\projects\gmic_sourceforge_net

destination location:

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\Imaging\GIMP_Folder\plugins\GMIC

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GIMP Installation

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Install GIMP 2.7.1 first, because it will uninstall any previous versions of GIMP. (TODO: Why didn't I use 2.7.2? I think I had a problem with it on 64-bit Windows 7.)

website:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20GTK%2B%20%28development%20rel.%29/

source location:

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\Imaging\GNU_ImageManipulationProgram_GIMP

destination location:

C:\Program Files\GIMP 2.7

Install GIMP 2.6.11

website:

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20GTK%2B%20%28stable%20release%29/

source location:

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\Imaging\GNU_ImageManipulationProgram_GIMP

destination location:

C:\Program Files (x86)\GIMP-2.0

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Configuring GIMP

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GIMP EPS file open capability:

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See instructions for Ghostscript.

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GIMP Python capability:

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Edit the GIMP 2.6 environment file as follows:

File location and name:

C:\Program Files (x86)\GIMP-2.0\lib\gimp\2.0\environ\default.env

Add the following to it:

# 2011 Nov 05 - I added:

PYTHONPATH=C:\Apps\opt\Python26;C:\Apps\opt\Python26\DLLs;C:\Apps\opt\Python26\Lib;C:\Apps\opt\Python26\Lib\lib-tk

Edit the GIMP 2.7 environment file as follows:

File location and name:

C:\Program Files\GIMP 2.7\lib\gimp\2.0\environ\default.env

Modify it as follows:

# 2011 Nov 05 - I added C:\Apps\opt\gtk to the PATH variable:

PATH=C:\Program Files\GIMP 2.7\bin;C:\Program Files\GIMP 2.7\32\bin;C:\Apps\opt\gtk

PYTHONPATH=C:\Program Files\GIMP 2.7\32\lib\gimp\2.0\python

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Set GIMP Folders:

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Start GIMP 2.6.11

Edit - Preferences

Select Default Image

Set Width to 4.000 and Height to 6.000 inches. Set X and Y resolution to 120.000

Expand the Folders choice

Select Gradients and add:

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\Imaging\GIMP_Folder\Gradient

Select Fonts and add:

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\Fonts\Unzipped

Select Plug-Ins and add:

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\Imaging\plugins

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\Imaging\GIMP_Folder\plugins\GMIC

Select Scripts and add:

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\Imaging\ScriptAction

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\Imaging\ScriptAction\registry_gimp_org

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\Imaging\ScriptAction\gimpfx-foundry_sourceforge_net

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\Imaging\ScriptAction\gimpscripts_com

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\Imaging\ScriptAction\gimp_scripts_26

Click on OK and exit GIMP for the changes to take affect.

Repeat the same steps for GIMP 2.7.1

GIMP 2.7.1 error - this program can't start because intl.dll is missing from your computer.

Copy intl.dll from this directory:

C:\Apps\opt\Python26\Lib\site-packages\gtk-2.0\runtime\bin

to this directory:

C:\Program Files\GIMP 2.7\bin

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Install Serif Applications

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Install PagePlus Starter Edition (Greeting card, etc. tool), PhotoPlus Starter Edition (image manipulation tool), and DrawPlus Starter Edition (image creation tool)

website:

http://www.serif.com/FreeDownloads/

source location:

D:\DATA\DVD02\Reference\Software\Serif\Serif

destination location:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Serif\PagePlus Starter Edition\2.0

C:\Program Files (x86)\Serif\PhotoPlus Starter Edition\2.0

C:\Program Files (x86)\Serif\DrawPlus Starter Edition\2.0

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TODOs

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TODO what is this? It has MinGW files in it. Revisit this:

D:\DATA\DVD03\Reference\Downloads\atoms_scilab_org\toolboxes

TODO any other viewers needed? There was some tie in from GIMP to IrfanView. What was that?

TODO what about those other filters I had?

TODO anything else needed?

TODO any other steps?