| Claire made the background by scanning in a swatch of free-form crochet. |
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It looked like this: |
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Then she reduced the colors to 256 grays.
She used this file as the background: |
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Also, she modified the original file with PhotoShop. In this example, she used Extensis' PhotoBevels: |
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