Creating a Silhouette

[Jill Marie Welsh]

This is just a guess.
Take a photo of the item that is as good of a view as you can get with no obstructions.
Import the pic into a photo program (even the cheap one I got from getting pix at Walmart)
Change it to black and white.
Adjust the contrast until it is as crisp as possible.
Make the dpi fairly high when you save it.
Import it into Corel.
Change it to a black and white bitmap.
Trace the bitmap.
Ungroup and eliminate anything you don’t want in the picture.
Select what you want to keep and combine the item.
Node edit as need be, and you should have a passable vectored silhouette.
Love….Jill

[Michael Dunn]

if you have roland cut studio you can import a jpeg or bitmap
go to image outline and turn up the density untill all the image becomes black and extract contour lines
it should then run a vector line around the image

or maybe use vector magic and delete all you dont need?