From photo to acrylic carving, 3 easy steps
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From photo to acrylic carving, 3 easy steps
Been doing acrylics for almost a year now. Finding line art to carve is easy. But I started getting a lot of requests for acrylic carvings of customers personal favorite cars. I stumbled onto an app at the App Store on my iPhone, called Photo to sketch that turns photos into line art. At least almost there anyway. It's a free app. And takes a lot of work out of the conversion. Then, on to another free program for the computer, GIMP, remove all the unwanted clutter, then on to creating vectors to carve the picture. First picture is a 2010 Camero belonging to my customer. Next photo what Photo to Sketch does to it. Last picture, the carving after GIMP cleanup and loading in V carve pro 7.
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Re: From photo to acrylic carving, 3 easy steps
Wow Keith that is cool.keep cranking them out Basecircle
Re: From photo to acrylic carving, 3 easy steps
Very nice Keith. Just keep them coming.
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Re: From photo to acrylic carving, 3 easy steps
Gary just shared this link with me. Pretty much the same as my phone app for creating lineart from photos, only this is a free download for your computer. Simply load your photo, move the slider bars for the best look, and save. That's what's so great about this site, sharing. Thanks Gary.
http://clipping-path-studio.com/instant-photo-sketch/
http://clipping-path-studio.com/instant-photo-sketch/
Being retired is hard work. Spending way too much time in the shop these days. (And loving it).
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Re: From photo to acrylic carving, 3 easy steps
I JUST BOUGHT THE PRO EDITION. THANKS. IT IS PRETTY COOLKeith Hodges wrote:Been doing acrylics for almost a year now. Finding line art to carve is easy. But I started getting a lot of requests for acrylic carvings of customers personal favorite cars. I stumbled onto an app at the App Store on my iPhone, called Photo to sketch that turns photos into line art. At least almost there anyway. It's a free app. And takes a lot of work out of the conversion. Then, on to another free program for the computer, GIMP, remove all the unwanted clutter, then on to creating vectors to carve the picture. First picture is a 2010 Camero belonging to my customer. Next photo what Photo to Sketch does to it. Last picture, the carving after GIMP cleanup and loading in V carve pro 7.
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Re: From photo to acrylic carving, 3 easy steps
Baby 15, from what I've seen in using the free version, that's probably all I'll use, but, what will you be using that's different in the pro version?
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Re: From photo to acrylic carving, 3 easy steps
what I had was 7 day trial.Keith Hodges wrote:Baby 15, from what I've seen in using the free version, that's probably all I'll use, but, what will you be using that's different in the pro version?
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Re: From photo to acrylic carving, 3 easy steps
Ok, got cha. Looks like it just give you different ways to enhance photos, which is fine for photo albums and such, but I didn't see anything of interest for CNC carving. So I'll just stick with the free version, which still seems pretty nice.
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Re: From photo to acrylic carving, 3 easy steps
Another quick carving from real photo, to line art, to acrylic carving. Turned out pretty nice.
OK, I give up on the position of the third photo. I took all three photos with my iPhone, loaded into this forum the same, and the top two came out fine. I edited the third photo, resending it several times, rotating it, etc., and it refuses to display upright. So, everyone will just have to flip their computer screens. Don't know if its IPhones fault, or this darned Windows 8. It is what it is I guess.
OK, I give up on the position of the third photo. I took all three photos with my iPhone, loaded into this forum the same, and the top two came out fine. I edited the third photo, resending it several times, rotating it, etc., and it refuses to display upright. So, everyone will just have to flip their computer screens. Don't know if its IPhones fault, or this darned Windows 8. It is what it is I guess.
Being retired is hard work. Spending way too much time in the shop these days. (And loving it).
Shark Pro Plus HD, Vcarve Pro, Photo V Carve, Cut 3D, scan probe.
Shark Pro Plus HD, Vcarve Pro, Photo V Carve, Cut 3D, scan probe.