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07-12-2008, 06:45 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Rancho Cucamonga, CA
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|  New job I'm honored to do. Grandma's 87th is coming up and I was asked to do a portrait of my great-grandparents for her. Didn't think twice. Here's the original and the pattern. Formal Garrett (2)small.jpg Formal Garrett (2)esmall.jpg
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07-12-2008, 06:50 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2008 Location: Vancouver Island, BC. Canada
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| Fremmed. that is amazing, your piece is very good, you even brought out there smiles. Alan. |
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07-12-2008, 03:04 PM
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| Land Locked  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Ocala, FL
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| Darn, Kevin, one hell of a job. You really captured them. That's five stars guy!
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07-12-2008, 10:27 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Janesville, WI
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| Kevin, nice work. You get an "atta boy" for that.
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07-13-2008, 12:18 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Albuquerque
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| Awesome pattern, I want to see the finished portrait. I know it is going to be sweet. Tom |
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07-13-2008, 03:57 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Ft. Worth, Texas
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| Kevin, Great work, Wish I could do that. What do you use to make the patterns? Whatever it is, I want to get it. I just hope you don't do it freehand, if you do, I'm screwed.... Mike |
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07-13-2008, 05:11 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Brockport,Ny
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| Wow that is a good pattern. be waitting to see it cut David |
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07-13-2008, 05:57 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Brockport,Ny
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| Mike for pattern makeing . check out Graphics Software list Would suggest before you buy try it 1st alot of them have a trial period.there is even free ones Davidb |
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07-14-2008, 02:16 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Ft. Worth, Texas
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| Thanks David, I have Corel Draw3, but don't know how to do vector graphics with it. I guess I'll have to learn Mike |
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07-14-2008, 03:30 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Rancho Cucamonga, CA
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| Hi Mike, The program I use for making my patterns is called Gimp. Its a free download (my favorite $) used for photo editing. Unfortunately there isn't a "Make Scroll Saw Pattern" button. In the simplest description, what I do is change the picture to gray scale, lighten the areas that I don't want, and darken the areas that I want to keep. After doing that I adjust the contrast of the picture to it's maximum. (Sounds simple, but it involves a lot of highlighting, erasing, and contrast adjustment, undo contrast, lighten, darken and on and on). Once I've got the picture where I want it, I start painting or erasing to ensure that picture looks right and I don't end up with any drop outs. I'm still new at this, and there are probably guys out there who are more experienced than me who are saying "He's doing it WAY wrong. All he has to do is...."
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