Author: Kris Sazaki
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It’s Retirement Party Time!
It’s party time, and we’re getting ready for the big day! We can’t believe it’s been 20 years since we formed the Pixeladies, but now that we’ve been clearing out the studio, we know how much a couple of people can collect in that time! Can you believe all those boxes and bags were in…
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Pixeladies’ Farewell Tour: Sep-Nov 2023
Dear Friends,We’ve set our retirement party! Hope you can join us there or at our final furoshiki demonstration. Take a look at what else is on the plate for the Pixeladies. Bid On Our Quilt!Sep 14 – Oct 8, 2023 • OnlineWe have donated our final collaboration to Studio Art Quilts Associates for their 2023…
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Kris’ 2023 SAQA Dream Collection
Studio Art Quilts Associates (SAQA) holds a benefit auction every September to raise money for exhibitions and to further education of the art quilt. They invite everyone to create a dream collection of eight pieces. Deb will post her collection next week, and I would love having the following works in my home. Why don’t…
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Fabric Printing Review: realfabric.com
Our review of realfabric.com may be our final fabric printing review before the Pixeladies retire, so we’re especially glad we found this company. After myfabricdesigns.com went out of business, we were really sad. It used reactive dyes, which we loved. Why? Because you get a rich, deep black. And for us, it’s all about the…
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Pixeladies’ Farewell Tour: Mar-Apr 2023
Dear Friends,Our farewell tour is moving along at a fast pace! Below are some more important upcoming dates. Please join us, if you can. Deb Cashatt: Pieced StoriesThrough Mar 30, 2023 • Richmond, CADeb just mounted her first solo exhibition at Bay Quilts in Richmond, CA! Here’s the change to see some of Deb’s amazing pieced quilts. The artist reception…
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Pixeladies’ Farewell Tour: Jan-Mar 2023 News
Our farewell tour started out with a bang! “Mrs. Hamer” was used for publicity throughout the Women’s Summit at the Clinton Presidential Center. We hope to have more to report on this amazing trip soon. Below are some important upcoming dates. Please join us, if you can.Happy Holidays,Kris and Deb, the Pixeladies Photoshop Elements ClassesBeginning…
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2003-2023: Celebrating 20 Years of the Pixeladies
Dear Friends,October 2023 will mark our 20th anniversary as the Pixeladies. What an amazing journey it’s been. We’ve traveled near and far, had our work exhibited in places we right now can only hope to visit, taught hundreds of students about Photoshop Elements, and met many lifelong friends. We are so proud of the work…
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Squared Off: Kris’ SAQA Dream Collection
The bidding for our favorite auction, the Studio Art Quilt Associates Benefit Auction,* starts on September 9, 2022. As in years past, Deb and I are making our dream collections. Click here to view Deb’s collection. This year eight pieces make up a collection. My tastes run the gamut, but this year I kept returning…
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Our New Website And Some DIY Tips
We’re publishing our Tech Tuesday post early because it’s been a while since we posted, and we updated our website. Take a look!
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The Case For A Writing Tablet
Kris takes a moment today to tell you why she loves her writing tablet – and not just for Photoshop Elements.
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Put Trays In Your Studio!
We’re in the studio looking at our handy dandy cafeteria trays, thinking we should tell you how handy they are!
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Tidbits Of Random Stuff You’ll Want for Photoshop
Today we’ve got random bits of useful information you can use in your computer work, from laptop help to character maps and file conversion.
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More Than One Way To Accomplish Tasks In Photoshop
Here’s our collection of blog posts up to now on how there are different ways to do stuff in Photoshop Elements.
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Celebrating Wayne Thiebaud and Rev. Desmond Tutu
Wayne Thiebaud and Rev. Desmond Tutu passed away last week. We stop at moment at the Pixeladies Studio to celebrate their lives.
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Class Registration Is Open!
We have started to register students for our online Photoshop classes. Classes begin in January. We hope there is one suited for you.
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Four “Towering” Projects: One Down, Three To Go
Towering projects indeed! We haven’t posted in a while because we have finally gotten into the groove of creating, and we really didn’t want to stop what we were doing. Now that we’ve nailed down a few things, we thought it would be fun to let you know where we’re headed. Here are our latest…
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Bid On Our Quilt At The SAQA Benefit Auction!
“The Language of Color 11: What’s the Point of White Pencils Only?” is a celebration of the diversity of the human race. It’s coming up for auction soon.
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SAQA Benefit Auction: Kris’ 2021 Dream Collection
The 2021 SAQA Benefit Auction starts on September 13. Kris and Deb have been creating their own dream collections. Here’s Kris’s!
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Adding Pattern Files to Photoshop Elements
Here’s a Tech Tuesday post about the ease of downloading pattern files to use in Photoshop Elements. It’s easy!
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How To Obscure Faces in Photoshop Elements
We’re taking a little break from sewing to show you how to obscure faces in this Tech Tuesday post from Kris.
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Our “Home” Project: Reworking “Log Cabin Redux”
We’re sewing again! Take a peak at our latest project, which is actually an old piece we’ve torn apart! Find out the why of this latest project.
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Rosie Lee Tompkins and Her Velvet Dreams
Get yourself down to the Berkeley Art Museum soon to catch the amazing and inspiring Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit! The exhibit ends July 18.
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Went To See Van Gogh, Got An Earful!
We are on the road again! Our first trip together since the pandemic was to San Francisco to see the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit.
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We Track Our Artwork on the GYST Cloud – Should You?
We’ve been tracking on our artwork with Gyst for years, and now we’re moving it to the cloud. Read on to see, if you should, too.
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Visit Katharine McCormick “Live” in San Diego!
California is open! Plan a visit to the Visions Museum in San Diego to see “Deeds Not Words” and our “Katharine McCormick: Making Her Mark.”
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We’re Zooming! Join Us for 4 Women : 4 Stories
Please join us on June 8, 2021 at 4:30pm EDT (GMT/UTC -4) as we give our presentation called “4 Women : 4 Stories” for the Maryland-DC-West Virginia Region of SAQA.
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We’re Back In The Studio Again!!
Here’s a little taste of our first day back in the studio after our pandemic hiatus!
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SAQA Spotlight Auction: Small Works, Small Prices, Great Art!
Looking for great art for a small price? Well, we’ve got a deal for you! We are currently at the annual SAQA conference, via Zoom, of course, and the Spotlight Auction has already begun. You do not have to be a SAQA member to bid. You just have to get a paddle and start bidding!…
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What To Look For In Fabric-Printing Companies
There are more and more fabric-printing companies out there to turn your digital designs into fabrics of many types. From cotton duck to silk organza, the sky is now the limit. We had written about fabric-printing companies for the SAQA Journal a few years back. Recently they asked us to revisit the topic again. The…
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Artificial Intelligence, It Turns Out, Has Racial Bias, Too
We are teachers and users of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. So we appreciate the advancements in artificial intelligence and how it has improved our digital editing and organizing capabilities. We’ve written about Photoshop Elements’ artificial intelligence here and facial recognition here. It’s time for us to reevaluate implicit bias in the tools we use to…