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09-21-2006, 06:49 PM
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| Member Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 30
|  Help!!! I don't know where to begin. I want to make a picture out of wood. Our new member (Charlie) has the most beautiful portraits in wood. And I want to do one of my late husband. I have never done people (faces) even in intarsia. Even though that is an option I could try. However going from photo to pattern to wood is eluding me.  Could some kind soul guide me through this? Pretty please?Thank you Linda aka Stickers  |
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09-21-2006, 07:02 PM
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| Guy with tools  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: North West, NJ
Posts: 245
|  You can start with Scroll Saw Portraits: How to Turn Photographs into Wooden Keepsakes by Gary Browning. It's published by Fox Chapel. There are also some on-line tutorials that I had run into by searching in google. Either way, it requires photo manipulation with photo editing software. You basically play with the contrast & brightness of the image to start and then manually draw or remove pieces of the image so that there are no pieces of the picture that are not connected to the others.
__________________ Dan -Just do'in the best I can every day |
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09-21-2006, 07:35 PM
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| Member Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 30
|  Thank you so much Dan. Your right I should have just started at the beginning with a how to book.  Now that I'm not in such a big panic maybe I can get something done. I don't have the software that you mentioned so I'm going to have figure out something else. But at least I'm moving forward with the first step. I knew that I could count on some good advice. Linda aka Stickers |
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09-22-2006, 02:17 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: wisconsin
Posts: 4,535
 | If needed, there are a few in here that may be able to either guide you through making a pattern, or even could make the pattern for you while you take your time and carefully learn it. I'm sorry for your loss. |
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09-22-2006, 03:02 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lakewood Ranch Florida
Posts: 1,164
| Stickers Stickers look for my recent posts in the pattern section as I just recently made a wood portrait of my wife from a picture I took you will find a lot of tips in that thread from our fellow scrollers they most certainly helped me out |
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09-22-2006, 05:02 AM
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| Moderator CUT IT OUT  Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Chilliwack British Columbia, Canada
Posts: 3,695
| Software Hey stickers you could try the demo version of Coyote. It wont allow you to save or print but you can see how it would look. here is the link http://www.meonapumpkin.com/coyote.aspx the free trial button is on the right.
__________________ CAЯL HIRD-RUTTEЯ "THE LYF SO SHORT, THE CRAFT SO LONG TO LERNE." GUSTAV STICKLEY Ryobi SC180VS scroll saw EX21 |
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