marieclaire

I did a couple of test for photo transfer to wood. Also read & watched videos as well for this tutorial. What I noticed on the video tutorials and books I read is that they preferred to use a laser printer rather than inkjet. As laser printer produced more color or darker rather than inkjet and once print is finished, they immediately add mediums on it and squeeged it to the wood. So I made a test myself on this project. My materials are wood, photo printed in inkjet since I dont have laserjet (i only use a regular paper), squeegee & lastly gel transfer (i used mod podge and compared it to omni gel). To check the difference. The process I made is right after print, I quickly put a medium gel, sticked it into the wood, squeeged it & left it in 24hrs. After 24hrs. I removed the paper (for the grains left on the wood I had to scratch it with my fingers and or you can use a linen to remove all of it). So as you can see the 1st photo has more color on it, i used the omni gel (but too bad I wasnt able to squeeged it properly.) 2nd photo was a mod podge medium gel, unfortunately, the print didnt stick onto the wood even if I left it dry for 24hrs. 3rd photo (A&S) it sticked well, but since I used an inkjet the color I chose went very very light and became unnoticeable. If you can please give me suggestions to try please do let me know.