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General Category => Pattern Requests. => Topic started by: Pinelog on January 23, 2014, 05:00:01 am

Title: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: Pinelog on January 23, 2014, 05:00:01 am
I have two pictures I need to see if you can convert to a pattern, the first is old and the lighting is tough with the background.  The second not as bad lighting but both old.

The first is of my aunt who just passed, the second is her and my mother on her wedding day.  I would like to try to cut one of them to give to my uncle.
Im still new at scrolling so too complicated a detail will be rough for me to cut.

Any help you can give me I would deeply appreciate it!

Thanks

Walter
 
PS.  Thank you to everyone that assisted on this project!   

I big shout out to Ray(EIEIO) His picture is the one they chose and I will add a copy of the finished project.

You helped to make my 80+ year old uncle very happy in this time of grief.   Thank you so much!
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: Malistar22 on January 23, 2014, 10:11:50 am
 I tried my hand at the first one. It's basic enough. I took the instructions EIEIO so graciously sent me.

(http://i.imgur.com/4VbIPeT.jpg)
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: EIEIO on January 23, 2014, 10:25:22 am
Nice rendering Malistar. Very simple cutting as requested. You might run it through Inkscape Trace Bitmap one more time to smooth some of the rough edges, and maybe do the [Object][Fill&Stoke] just for practice. And add your name to the image somewhere so you can be tracked down later if needed.
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: Pinelog on January 23, 2014, 11:49:08 pm
Looking good, Malistar!  Thank you!   If you do make another pass at it, you can put in a bit more details if you want to. 
Im a bit past simple, but Im no where near doing stuff like Charles Dearing does!  I want to take my time and do it right.

Thank you so much for the help.

 I've decided to wait a couple weeks before I give it to my uncle. 
He's having a tough time right now.  They were married over 63 years.
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: Tomsunnu on January 24, 2014, 02:00:02 am
Hey Walter, this is what I came up with the second picture,sorry! tried getting the mirror details but I could not as to much to clean up. I hope you like it.
It is in PDF as JPG was ending up in a big file and to convert it to the sites requirement was making it
way to small.
Mahendra

Here is the jpg picture.
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: Tomsunnu on January 24, 2014, 02:46:47 am
Walter , here is another attempt at the first picture.
Mahendra
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: frankorona on January 24, 2014, 07:39:50 am
Great patterns, thanks for your help guys.
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: Joleet on January 24, 2014, 11:44:02 am
Walter.... Thought I would do a different take on her hair....Nice patterns guys.
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: Malistar22 on January 24, 2014, 11:53:33 am
Joleet! That is awesome! I tried for about an hour to make her hair anything but a blob of black but failed every time. That is a beautiful pattern!
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: EIEIO on January 24, 2014, 01:46:51 pm
One more on that image. The 2nd photo is tough to get both faces. Can it be reconfigured (faces moved together)?
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: jrpeteo on January 24, 2014, 10:55:28 pm
Wow, I would have trouble choosing. Thanks for helping out.
Pete
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: Pinelog on January 25, 2014, 05:41:31 am
Guys!   Thank you so much!  You dont know just how fantastic all your patterns are and what they will mean to the family!

You are all the best!

I love this Scroll Saw Community!

Walter
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: wombatie on January 25, 2014, 05:46:48 am
They are all fantastic patterns guys, you excelled yourselves.

Marg
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: Pinelog on March 27, 2014, 03:17:01 pm
One more on that image. The 2nd photo is tough to get both faces. Can it be reconfigured (faces moved together)?

Ray,

On the second pic the outline is in red... Which program did you use to get the line and how can I change it to a Black Line??  My printer isnt doing a good job of showing the line and I would like to get as much of the details of the lines as possible when I cut this in the morning.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: EIEIO on March 27, 2014, 05:30:03 pm
This was done in Inkscape. Here's a copy with black outline. You need the SVG file if you want to change it yourself but this forum doesn't allow that file type. I can email it if you want.
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: Pinelog on March 27, 2014, 06:18:36 pm
This was done in Inkscape. Here's a copy with black outline. You need the SVG file if you want to change it yourself but this forum doesn't allow that file type. I can email it if you want.

Yes I would love to get the file, Thanks Ray!    I need to start to learn to fish!   "Teach a man to fish..."

Do you still have my Email?

Thanks again!
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: EIEIO on March 27, 2014, 07:29:30 pm
Sent to your email. Let me know if you have any questions.
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: Pinelog on April 02, 2014, 10:33:30 pm
Ray,

A Huge Thank You to you and everyone that helped with this project.   You really helped to give my Uncle a great gift in his time of grief!

Attached isn't the best picture of the finished project but it was the best I could do with a gimp camera and bad lighting.

I stack cut 2, one was attached to the box of ashes they buried on Saturday, and the other I framed to give to my uncle.  He said to tell you that you did a wonderful job on the conversion and he especially loved what you did with her hair!

Thank you so much!

Walter
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: Tomsunnu on April 03, 2014, 08:24:48 am
Walter, looks beautiful :)

Mahendra
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: EIEIO on April 03, 2014, 06:36:51 pm
You did a great job. I like the roses at the bottom - my art teacher says if you want a piece to stand out, add a little red to it.

I'm happy to hear that your uncle liked it.
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: Pinelog on April 03, 2014, 07:02:28 pm
The roses were a must.

Even in his 80's my uncle kept a rose garden and every day he would go out and cut a rose for her.  She loved them, and he loved her. 
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: Marcellarius on April 04, 2014, 06:06:26 am
Great cutting, adding the rose is also wonderful.
very nice
Title: Re: Need help with a tough Portrait Pattern Please!
Post by: Danny on April 04, 2014, 03:21:51 pm
This POST in my feelings is about the BEST I have read.  So many of you Designers that jumped in so fast and offered your assistance.  Great Patterns.  Every one of them.  Posts like this REALLY make me Appreciate being a part of this Wonderful Scrolling Family.    Danny  :+}