Step 6.
Assemble as shown in the Spinning Hardware section which follows Method 2.

Method 2 (The digital method. This is like magic!).
What You Will Need:
Your computer and printer, PhotoShop or PhotoShop Elements software or similar.

Cre8it White Magic inkjet vinyl

A Digital Fabric of your choice - we used Paisley, a Flat Fabric file. If you are using a Layered Fabric, flatten it (a menu item in the Layers Palette) before doing the following steps.

The Pinwheel Template Virtual Stamp.


Please Note: Graduates of Virtual Stamping 101 will find this exercise a breeze. Since we have published our first PhotoShop CD, which presents basic skills in the most effective way we could devise, we will no longer be rewriting all that basic info every time we do a computer article in our magazines. Repeating bogs down our progress and takes too much space. We would rather concentrate on using those skills on new techniques. And . . . here’s one now!

Step 1.
Open the Pinwheel Template Virtual Stamp in PhotoShop or Elements.

It will look like the picture on the right.

This image is offered in outline form so that it can be printed blank and stamped and/or painted by you if you so desire.

However, for this project we need it in solid form and we can make that change easily.


Step 2.
New Skill Alert:
Invert

Under the Image Menu, choose Adjustments/ Invert.

As you see, this turns the black lines white and the background black.

We want the outline white for reasons that will become apparent later.


Step 3.
Select the Magic Wand Tool. In the Options Bar up top, make sure the Contiguous box is checked and set the Tolerance to 100.

Hold down the Shift Key and click in each of the spaces we want to remove - everything but the pinwheel itself.

Step 4.
Hit the Delete Key and only the black pinwheel should be left against a white background.

Did you forget the inside of the eyelet holes? If so go back and get them too.