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Tracing
can any of you guys help??
have tried tracing this pic of myself to black and white,ready to cut. Just me and bike, but cant get it, its doing my head in.How does one do it in coral??
Thanks
Craig
wrong forum???
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not the best image for black and white
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craig, that is a complex image. lots of fine detail etc,
to replicate you would really need to go to print.
best you can expect from vinyl, without a weeks work, is something like this, needs a bit of tyding, to cut, get rid of all the small dots etc. I can post as a cut file if you think you can use itPeter
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Have a look at this, will need cleaning up a bit.
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Nick thats better, much cleaner
its a time thing the longer you spend the better you get
nice one
rich -
signlab will trace that picture in "pinlines" (forgot the proper term for it) :lol1:
you import the picture and the software will prismscan it. after a few seconda you are left with a vector "photographic type cuttable image"
hard to explain but works very well with certain pictures.ok, fat lot of good this will do you if you have corel, but maybe the new X3 has something similar?
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Corel did have a trace feature called ‘Woodcut’ which is what Rob is describing. They seem to have got rid of it for X3 though. Shame, cos it was a good tool.
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its called phototrace in signlab; it does a good job for certain things, but fine detail, like the logos on the bike may not be legible, I could show you an example, but the odd thing about photo trace, is it doesn’t give you a seeable image till you cut it.
Its made up of lines like an old tv picture.
Hard to explain, I did put a picture somewhere on the boards, but cant find itPeter
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what i found was, if you produce it you must make it big… minimum 24 inches square… great for big wall designs though… very sorta pop-arty.
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found this as an example, still looking for other stuff
http://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.p … tocut#5386
Peter -
try this.
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Mike did a very nice demo of converting a photograph to a cuttable file, ages ago. As did Rob, I think. They are well worth a trawl through the demo section. Sometimes I think it pays to trace stuff like this with a good old marker pen to simplify the image before scanning and tracing.
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or this one.
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Craig
I have been working on it tonight for you will finish it tomorrow
… its not so much what you trace as what you leave outTerry
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you did say black and white that you can cut
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Wow guys Brilliant!!!!
Thanks sooo much, this will be going on my race van this year and will keep my sponsor who buys the bike for me very happy, I think I will let him pick which one :lol1:Thanks again
Craig
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I did a similar thing for one of the grasstrack sidecar lads recently. It was a right pig to weed, but he was very happy with the result. I have also shown the original picture I had to work from
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Craig
As promised
This is the final version ,the detail on the fairing you can clean up or leave off
along with the ‘ extras’mail me i will send you the ai file OK
Terry
Sign and Custom
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Nice work Terry 😀 😀 😀 😀
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Craig
I spent a night on this ,did you want it ?Terry
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