House

[Tomsunnu]

This was a very watched series in my part of the world and the British actor gave a classic performance (Hugh Laurie)

Thank you for looking.

Mahendra

[EIEIO]

Terrific pattern. I watched House a few times, but Doc Martin was my favorite.

[GrayBeard]

You captured that ol' grouch perfectly!
Great Job...

~~~GB~~~

[jrpeteo]

That's a great one Mahendra, thanks for my copy.
Pete

[Merlin]

Very nice, stole a copy Thanks.

***Merlin***

[wombatie]

Wow what a great pattern.  Thanks Mahendra

Marg

[EIEIO]

Mahendra - this doesn't look like the typical Gimp/Inkscape processing. Can you tell a little about your process for rendering this pattern? Did it originate with a digital photo?

[Tomsunnu]

Ray
this image was downloaded from the net, free domain( can't remember exactly) and it is a high resolution image  and this is aGIMP-INKSCAPE process , I shall try and explain, first it was imported in Gimp ,desaturate, filter-photocopy ,play with the sliders to get enough details in masking.

Step 2, enlarge the pattern to 300 to 400% and start working on the details required erase or add (like use your creativity) then I take the image to inkscape and I do this several times to clean up the pattern ( with tracing)till I am satisfied with the end result .

I finally bring  it to Corel Draw ,sort of resize to fit add my name, (you might laugh at this but this is the only way I know) convert it to  pdf ,go on line to convert pdf to Jpg. Once that done, if the file is big ,again reduce it to mailing size and that is about all I do. I sincerely hope that this answer makes sense,Ray

Mahendra

[frankorona]

Amazing pattern, thanks for sharing

[Luperez548]

Fantastic pattern Mahendra

[Keefie]

Ray, you said Doc Martin was your favourite, here is a picture can you see his surgery there?  It's 25 mins down the road from me lol.

Keefie.

[EIEIO]

Keith - I can also see Burt and Al's waterfront restaurant. We keep checking Netflix to see if any new episodes have been posted. I miss Aunt Joan..

[Pinelog]

R
I finally bring  it to Corel Draw ,sort of resize to fit add my name, (you might laugh at this but this is the only way I know) convert it to  pdf ,go on line to convert pdf to Jpg. Once that done, if the file is big ,again reduce it to mailing size and that is about all I do. I sincerely hope that this answer makes sense,Ray

Mahendra

Mahendra,

First you do wonderful work, I love it!

Second a gift to you if you have to do all that just to resize or convert to a pdf.

http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp This is CutePDF Writer, its free and not too hard to install, I have used it for years and it installs as an additional Printer in your system.  So if you have a document you want to convert to PDF just print it and select Cutepdf for your printer and it will allow you to save the document as a pdf on your computer.

The second is http://www.getpaint.net/ Paint.net  It is open source and will let you resize crop add layer etc and very easy to use, and save the image to any file format you want, Jpg bmp, png, etc.

Thanks again for all the wonderful work you do!  You are an artist!

[Tomsunnu]

Pinelog,
Thank you so very much for your kind words,I appreciate it very much and the two gifts- great! Let me visit the link you have provided and will download and make my life a bit more easy .
This is my hobby and I love attempting patterns
Once again very thoughtful of you to have come up with a solution for me
Mahendra

[Pinelog]

The paint.net isn't as powerful (or hard to use) as Adobe Photoshop, but it's good for most things I have needed to do. 

The ability to layer is very nice when you want to make a template pattern and add stuff as needed like names and such, without having to redo the whole pattern.  I still haven't dipped my toes into the stuff you guys do converting pictures to patterns...