How to Photo Transfer with Mod Podge and INK JET printer / EASY DIY

hello youtube friends welcome to my channel if you're new here i love upcycling repurposing thrifting and diy content so if you like that kind of stuff i love new crafting friends so make sure you like subscribe and hit the bell for notifications so you don't miss any great diy content today i'm going to show you how you can do a photo transfer using your inkjet printer and mod podge it's a really simple easy technique i've done a couple videos on it before and never with an actual photo i've done it with graphics so today i'm going to show you how i did it with one of my photos that i took on one of our recent camping trips so i hope you enjoy i hope it's helpful and um we'll get started i'm going to do my photo transfer on this uh wooden plate or this little plaque that i found at the thrift store it was a dollar 49 um and it's just a basic wood i like when i'm doing these transfers to paint them with a chalk paint first that seems to give me the best transfer so i am going to give this a coat of black chalk paint and then i'm going to paint it with two coats of white chalk paint and that will give it a really nice base for us to start our transfer the best result that i always have when doing these transfers is on chalk paint i've tried it with latex i've tried it with acrylic and i never have that great of a result as i do with chalk paint i think the chalk paint must be maybe a little bit more absorbent in soaking up those inks from the print and helping it transfer better i found when using a latex paint it did not work at all i found that it rubbed off really easy i'll put a link down in the description for my favorite homemade chalk paint recipe now we're ready to do the photo transfer this is just a photo that i took on one of our camping adventures and i just love the vibrant colors in it i printed it off on my basic inkjet printer it's not a fancy one was only like forty or fifty dollars and i've just printed it out now what i'd like to do is after i printed out my photo i like to let it sit for about 10 or 15 minutes and let all the ink kind of dry and set into the paper this is just regular computer paper not photo paper that's what you want to use for this mod podge um reverse transfer method using a ink jack so the next thing i'm going to do is i'm going to get my mod podge mat and we're going to put it onto this wooden plaque i'm going to use my mod podge matte i find that has the best results i find with the glossy um it doesn't rub off as well so i always stick to this one when i'm doing this type of transfer method when i'm applying the mod podge i like to apply it right to the photo um not the actual wood and that also has given me the best results i do a lot of these so i've learned all of this through trial and error so i hope all these little tips and tricks will help you out when you want to do some of your own transfers now i prefer to use an inkjet or a sorry a laserjet when i'm doing transfers it just gives more of a vibrant transfer i find when you're using the inkjet it is more of a dull finish after you've rubbed off all the paper but a lot of people don't have a laserjet printer so this is a really good option and i actually have a comparison video that you i'll put a link down below in the description and up above right here where you can see where i did a laserjet and an inkjet transfer side by side and you can see the difference in how it transfers i'm not cutting this down to size because i'll just sand off the edges when it's all finished and now i've got it completely covered i've got a pretty good coat on it you don't want it too too thick you just want a nice thin layer over the whole picture and i'm just going to flip it over and center it on my wooden plaque and you want to rub out all the wrinkles and all the bubbles make sure it's nice and flat and then once you have that done you're going to set it aside and not even think about it you want to let it sit overnight you need to have that really really dry and before you start to rub the paper off so i've got this all set i'm going to set it aside and we'll be back tomorrow one thing to remember when doing this type of a transfer is to reverse your photo um if you don't your photo will be backwards when you put it on to your project and also it's really important to do if you're using graphics because if you don't reverse your text when you put your graphics down when you rub off your paper your letters and your words are going to be backwards i have a video on how to do the reverse um graphics in a word program i'll put a link again down below or up above here and you can check that out if you're not familiar with how to do that okay it's the next day this is completely dried and now we're ready to wet it and rub off the paper i just have a little dish of water and a rag and you just want you don't want to soak it you just want it wet enough so when you put it on you can just start to see the photo come through if you put too much water on you're going to lift up that photo so just enough just to see it through the um paper and then you're just gonna gently just gently rub away the paper until you expose the photo this takes a little bit of practice and a little bit of knack on how to do it but if you practice it's a really cool technique and it works really well i do find sometimes when i'm doing this type of method of transfer with an inkjet you sometimes can rub off the ink it might lift it a little bit every printer is a little bit different this one seems to work really well so it's just kind of something that you just have to fool around with and try and see how it works for you but right now it's working perfect if you do find when you're rubbing away the paper it starts to dry out a little bit and you're getting a little bit of a white haze you can see right here there's a little bit of a white haze just dip your finger into the water and just circular motions just work on that area and it should come off if you just take your time you don't want to rub too hard either that's another trick if you're rubbing too hard you're going to rub that photo and that transfer right off so just kind of work in small sections at a time just back and forth until all that cloudiness is gone and uh it will work perfect for you and like i said before if you have um a laser jet printer this transfer method works even better um and you'll get more vibrant colors and it transfers a lot easier with with the rubbing off of the paper but as you can see this inkjet one is actually working really well for me today and um i would recommend if you don't have a laserjet print off on an inkjet on a plain piece of paper and give this technique a try with some of your favorite photos i've also had success doing this transfer method on a canvas on glass jars the only thing that i find works the best for me though is to make sure that you have a chalk painted base underneath any um project that you're doing as soon as you try to do it on plain glass or an unpainted canvas or unpainted wood the success rate is not very good i find you've got to have that chalk paint underneath and it just i think makes it a little bit more porous for that paper ink to soak into um to do the transfer properly i'm just going to re-dampen it just gently just to get that last little bit of the cloudiness away i'm going to start in the top corner and you can feel the paper kind of ball up underneath your fingers and wipe away now the one thing that i do notice with an inkjet if you start rubbing too much you're going to start rubbing that ink off so just really gentle hand as you're rubbing and i think we're almost finished i think i have almost all the paper off of it and we'll be ready to seal it okay i think i'm finished i think i got almost all of the paper rubbed off i don't want to rub at it too much more because the ink was starting to rub off a little bit and i still want all those vibrant colors so if you do have a little tiny bit of that cloudiness left don't worry because when you put on your top sealer it's going to get rid of almost all of that so i think i'm just going to give it a good sanding around the edge and then it'll be ready for um it's top coat i'm just going to go back in with my sanding block again and just kind of give it a a rough sanding around the edge just to kind of give it a rustic look and i think it's going to finish it off really nice yeah i like the look of that [Music] okay we're ready to put the top coat on i am going to use the polyurethane water-based clear gloss finish you can choose whatever finish you like i just thought with this one i would like to use a gloss finish you can use the mod podge as a top coat but i prefer this over the mod podge i think this has a much nicer finished look than the mod podge but that's your preference also so i'm just going to put a coat over the entire picture and let it dry and like i said before if you do find you have a little few little spots that are a little bit cloudy still and you don't want to rub it anymore as soon as you put that top coat on it's more than likely just going to disappear and you won't see it anymore so i'm going to work on that and as you can see as i'm spreading this around it's bringing some of that vibrant color back from when you first printed off the picture and i've just finished that first coat of the polyurethane and it looks fantastic i'm going to let that first coat dry and then i'll put i think i'll put a second coat on and then it's going to be all finished the first coat is dry i'm going to take my sanding block just give it a real light sand in case there's any little air bubbles and then i'm going to put on my last coat to seal it and there you have your photo transfer using an inkjet printer and mod podge and it works fantastic so go through your photos pick out some of your favorite ones and give this technique a try thanks 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Id: F17WmucEwqM

Length: 12min 58sec (778 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 08 2021