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How to Photo Transfer
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Feb 21, 2025
Learn how to photo transfer to any image. This paper to paper photo transfer technique is really easy and will work with any printer. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPdD0ifkS1vKYPs3zgDx3YQ/join
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hi everyone anth kler here with a new
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video tutorial and today I'm going to
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show you how to photo transfer so you
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can do this with any
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printed uh image it can be an inkjet or
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a laser jet it doesn't really matter I
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have printed the faces of Marilyn Monroe
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and created a grid with masking tape on
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my paper and now I'm taking a little bit
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of gel medium you can also you use mod
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podge and I am applying it on the paper
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and the photo and I'm attaching
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it facing down the image is facing the
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paper so don't get confused about
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that so again apply ling a very thin
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coat of gel medium on my paper and then
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a very thin coat on the image itself you
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can do it with colored images black and
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white images whatever you want so I'm
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going to attach the faces in different
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directions again it's up to you how
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large the image is what direction you
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want it to be I'm just showing you the
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technique so last image
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and then we can go ahead and start the
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transferring process which basically is
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already started so the next thing that
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you need to do is wet your finger or wet
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the photo just a little bit you can do
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this with a baby wipe as well and start
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rubbing the photo now what will happen
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is that the top layer is going to be
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turned into paper crumbs
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because of the moisture of the water and
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what you're going to be left with is the
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image itself embedded in the paper and
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that is the transfer so you can do this
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like I said with a baby wipe or your
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finger it can take a little bit of time
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don't use too much water because then it
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will Rip you can see on the right side
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that a little bit of the nose and the
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mouth are gone because I've rubbed too
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much
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yes it can even happen to me so be very
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gentle with the amount of water that you
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spray and with your
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rubbing you can see all the crumbs
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around the
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paper and
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then how good the image looks after we
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got rid of
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the top layer of the paper so now that I
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have all my images transferred to the
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paper I can go ahead and add whatever I
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want to them so basically you can use
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this technique on any
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surface you can use it on tiles on wood
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on glass on
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plastic like I said on
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paper and it's really easy to transfer
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and again you can use a baby wipe if you
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don't want to use your fingers so now
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it's just a matter of taking the image
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that you transferred and turning it into
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art so you can do this on your art
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journal page you can do this on a
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scrapbook page you can do this in your
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Bible Journal you can do this just as a
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mixed
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media uh canvas this technique will work
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on canvas too so basically you can do
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this whenever you want and the art that
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you add is completely up to
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you so since I've made a grid of that
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masking tape I can basically create four
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different let's call them tiles or
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rectangles and I'm going to alter the
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face and alter the background of each of
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these
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triangles sorry rectangles I always get
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confused with rectangles and triangles
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so the art is going to be completely
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different on each of the rectangles or
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the
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tiles and that is completely up to you
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so here I'm using a black water color
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pencil that you can either dip in water
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and then it will react or you can just
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color and then take a wet brush
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and color over it or wet it and then
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you'll get this beautiful vibrant color
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I really like working with watercolor
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pencils they look really
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cool
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next I'm just going to
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use just an orange
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watercolor you can use acrylic paint
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markers whatever you want when you
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create your art it's completely up to
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you what you want it
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to how you want it to
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look you can prepare the background in
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advance and then add the image on top of
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it and then you will have you will see
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since that image is is slightly
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transparent you you will see the
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background underneath so now that I have
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all the
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background painted on all the
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tiles just going to add
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details and you can add details to the
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face around the face you can add details
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to the hair you can add whatever you
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want this is your art it's actually has
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nothing to do with the transfer part
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oops my camera moved sorry about that
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I just want to show you what you can do
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after you transfer the
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photo basically this
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is this has a problem here since part of
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her nose is missing like I
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said but you can still see the potential
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for the
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art and what you can
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do just by adding little swirls around
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with a black pen
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doesn't have to be too
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complicated I really like how each of
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the faes is in a different direction so
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that makes it really
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cool so I'm going to put a little bit of
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music for you to enjoy the creative
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process
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so once I'm done with all the art I can
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remove the masking
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tape and then I'll have really straight
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edges and everything will look really
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pretty you can frame this you can cut
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this you can do whatever you want with
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it really hope you like this technique
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all the techniques thank you very much
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for joining me I really hope you give it
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a try since the faces are in different
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direction you can turn this to any
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direction that you want Isn't that cool
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so thank you very much for joining me
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and I will see you next
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time
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