I’m going to teach you how to transfer any photograph or picture onto wood.All you need is a printer, a roll of waxed paper and a dream.Cut a few sheets of waxed paper to the size of a standard piece of printer paper
Find a smooth, light coloured piece of wood. Actually find a few so you have some to practice on.
Then, find a high resolution image you like. Or make your own. The Graphics Fairy is a great place to start for copyright free, high resolution images.
Once you have an image you like, reverse it using whatever photo
program you have on your computer. If you’re not sure how to do that
just Google it.
Put a sheet of your waxed paper into the printer and click print.As the waxed paper comes out of the printer, gently guide it. You have
to be careful it doesn’t roll under itself or touch itself in any other
way because it will smear the ink.
Put your image exactly where you want it on the wood. Remember … this
can be any unfinished wood. A bench, table, box, or anything!
Once you place your image you can’t move it. Do not move it. It
will smudge. You will be sad. Then you will cry and it will smudge some
more.
Holding the transfer tight to the wood, and working quickly, swipe
the edge of a credit card across the image. This pushes the ink from the
waxed paper down into the wood, which absorbs it.
Don’t be wimpy about this. Push hard, but not so hard that you rip
the waxed paper. You can gently lift the paper to see if it’s
transferring well. If you notice spots that haven’t transferred, rub it
some more with the credit card, this time burnishing it.
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