The Online Weavers computer workshop is continuing and here is my new addition. Taking the top brightly coloured clown photo I was able to emulate a watery ikat textile with Photoshop. This type of playing around doesn’t take long once you’ve discovered some of the tools to make it happen.

For this image I cut and pasted some rectangular segments of the first image into a new canvas. I then treated these with filters – noise, followed by wind blast. I then interspersed plain coloured and gradient coloured stripes (actually elongated rectanges) into the image. Some of the colours here have been picked up with the eyedropper tool from the original image. The wind filter had an unexpected result breaking the image up at the sides which gave a weft ikat look. What fun! Thanks Leigh.