Follow the steps
below to get pictures from your computer that can easily be downloaded into a
word processing document and resized to fit on your canvas (a rock perhaps?)
1. Go to your computers search engine (I use Google) and type what you would like to find a picture of into the search bar.
2. In this example, I will be searching for a "hummingbird" (but you can type in whatever you would like, perhaps "garden flowers"). So type 'hummingbird' into the search bar (see picture below...)
3. Hit 'Enter'. Next, directly
underneath the search box or somewhere on the page depending on what search
engine you use, you should see a list of choices, they are: Web,
Shopping, Images, Videos, News, More. Select "Images" from
the menu below by left clicking with your mouse on your search screen...
4. You will see many pictures of hummingbirds appear. Scroll down until you see one you would like to use for your project.
5. Using your mouse, hover over your selected picture and 'Left click' once on the picture to make it larger (you should see the picture you selected pop up larger somewhere on your screen).
6. Now with your mouse, move to hover over the larger version of your selected image and 'Right click' on it (refer to the picture directly below this paragraph). Select 'Save Image As' from the choices in the box that pops up (it's the seventh choice down in the selections on Google, NOT 'Save LINK As' - there's a difference)
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7. You should
now have a new window pop up and at the bottom of the screen you should
see two long white rectangular boxes, one will be asking
you where you want to save the picture, and the other how you
want to save your picture...
8. The answer
to 'Where' is 'Desktop' and you should rename
it 'hummingbird' in the white box, erasing the
computer given name of letters and numbers that it was assigned automatically
by backspacing over them and typing in "Hummingbird". The
answer to 'How' is as a 'JPEG' (bottom rectangular
box).
9. Now go to your Desktop to locate your
picture under the name you saved it to, in this case
"Hummingbird". Open the picture by hitting the 'Left
click' button on your mouse while hovering over the picture file on
your Desktop. When the file opens up, 'Right click' while
hovering over the picture and in the box that pops up select 'Copy' or
'Copy Image'.
10. Directly after hitting 'Copy' or 'Copy Image' in
the step above exit out of where you have the picture saved. In
another window, open up a blank word processing document. 'Right
click' in the blank word document file. Select 'Paste'.
Your image should appear! It should look something like this...
11. Once the image appears, hover
over the picture and 'Left click' on it. A thin
lined box (see the picture above) should appear around your image and now you
can resize it easily by clicking on the corner of the box and pulling it with
your mouse until it's the size you like. Save your image into
this word processing document for reference or to resize it if you'd like to
make it smaller or larger.
12. If you are going to use this
picture to transfer onto a rock by drying it face down onto the surface
using Mod Podge,
then you should format the picture by flipping it horizontally before you print
it out (use the Format button, see the picture above for reference - Format is
the last selection on the top line in the word processing document)
13. Print out your image on your
inkjet printer. You can also print a 'Mirror Image' in the print commands
to skip Step 12 above.
14. If you are going to use
my freezer paper method
of image transfer,
click on the video link below to learn how to print on freezer paper from your
computer.
RELATED VIDEOS:
Please note that the videos linked
below may have a different subject matter (not “hummingbirds”) and they are
just here for your reference and to help you learn about this process.
If you have any questions about the
process outlined here, please leave your question(s) in the ‘Comments’ section
on one of the videos linked below.
How to Make Freezer Paper
Sheets for your Inkjet Printer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EYCIbkP9lo
Printing Commands
Tutorial for Printing onto Freezer Paper
Once you've printed your images onto
freezer paper, you can learn how to transfer them onto your rock by watching
the video below:
How to Transfer an Image
to a Rock Using White Acrylic Paint and Mod Podge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkw4RLWs_sk
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