anyone artistic?

[GedsJeep]

i need to commission a shaded picture to be made up from three photos.

does anyone know anyone who can help?

i will also need that picture transferring to 3mm brass plate if anyone can help with that.

this is for a memorial to my best mate who passed away on sunday.

thanks

[Julian]

Sorry to hear of your loss.

By shaded do you mean tones or just light and dark areas like black and white pop-art?

Were you thinking of engraving or etching the brass or something more in the way of printing?

[GedsJeep]

thank you.





this sounds mad when you say it out loud.......


John was an old village copper from wales. proper old school. he was also very involved in developing offroad modifications for the lada niva. (his niva was probably the most capable offroad vehicle i know, and ive been offroading all my life). it was also a LHD.

he would spend his days caring for his wife who has MS or driving the greenlanes around wales. as it was a lhd niva, he would take james with him. james was a two foot tall panda, complete with hi viz, hat and pipe. many amusing moments we had watching ramblers remonstrating a giant panda for being offroad....

i have a pic of him, one of his car and one of james. i need someone who could put them all together in a good quality line drawing probably? i want it identifiable as him and james. then we have the etching (correct term??) problem.

the pic needs to be transferred to the brass, and the brass then cut to the shape of the niva.

i can do the line drawing on photoshop, but its the putting the images together that i cant.

ged

[Julian]

I'll gladly help where I can.  I'm OK with line graphics, but struggle a bit with photo manipulation.

I use Corel Draw a great deal.  Therein is a facility which will trace bitmap images into line art (vector format)  After that putting a couple of images together should be easy.

If you email me the photos (mail address is in my forum details), I'll have a play and see if it's the sort of thing you're after.  You obviously have a picture in your mind of what you want the finished item to look like, so a scanned sketch or further detailed description would help a lot.

[kamaangir]

Sorry to hear of your loss, sounds like one hell of a bloke!

Makes me want to get a niva, was looking at the a while ago.

[GedsJeep]

I'll gladly help where I can.  I'm OK with line graphics, but struggle a bit with photo manipulation.

I use Corel Draw a great deal.  Therein is a facility which will trace bitmap images into line art (vector format)  After that putting a couple of images together should be easy.

If you email me the photos (mail address is in my forum details), I'll have a play and see if it's the sort of thing you're after.  You obviously have a picture in your mind of what you want the finished item to look like, so a scanned sketch or further detailed description would help a lot.

thanks. im off out to work in a mo so will get them over to you rtomorrow.

cheerrs

[julianf]

If your work is going to be vector, rather than bitmap, then i could probably cut the image for you.

I did not speak up initially, as 'pictures' are normally bitmap, but there's talk of vectors above...

[Julian]

If your work is going to be vector, rather than bitmap, then i could probably cut the image for you.

I did not speak up initially, as 'pictures' are normally bitmap, but there's talk of vectors above...

That sound great, Julian.  What sorts of file can you work with?

[julianf]

hpgl is probably the simplest

[Julian]

Great start!  Never heard of it ... had to Google it to find out what it was.

However it would appear that my graphics software can export PLT files which are described as HPGL.

If it's OK, later I'll export a simple graphic and send you a copy to check you can open and use it.

[Julian]

OK, just sent a test file.

I'd drawn the graphic with different pen widths, shapes and solid fill, but on exporting there were a plethora of options for pen qualities and fill plus a few other things.  I used the standard settings but it may be necessary for you to stipulate what parameters your machine can use.

Let me know how you get on.

[Julian]

Julian, just been doing a little Googling on file types and Corel and came across this ... http://www.frontpanelexpress.com/index.html

Seems like a good idea.  I've seen the same done with PCBs and 3D printing.  Is it a model you could follow with your business?  The main stumbling block would be the software I suppose, but if you could accept common file formats, it might be viable.

I guess you could nick their software ... it's free to down load!

[julianf]

Let me know how you get on.

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...but i need to tell you more.  Speak to you next year...

[GedsJeep]

err, its photo`s i have.....

does that matter?

[Julian]

Let me know how you get on.

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...but i need to tell you more.  Speak to you next year...

There was a load of shapes and lines too.  Looks like it only picked up the text.

I think you need to tell me more!