Glass Software/ techniques?

"Moonraker" wrote in message
.. .
I'm interested in some software recommendations or (how- to- use
techniques)
that will easily and simply let me scan a photo and convert it to a SG
pattern.

My objective is to be able to scan a hard-copy photo of an item....a
handgun, a pet, a flower, maybe even a landscape... and then convert that
continuous tone photo into a line drawing that then could be altered and
resized into a "real" SG pattern.

All without spending half a day with layers and sprites and fussing about
and becoming a PhotoShop jock.

I've searched around in some of the graphics forums looking for tutorials
that might address what I want to do, but no happy ending, yet.

Comments, ideas, suggestions? Thanks.



Try Kodak Easyshare (free download, last time I checked). It has a category
of 'Fun Effects' in it, one of which is 'Coloring Book'. It pretty much
does what the less ambitious sprites in Photoshop do.

But you should still consider giving Photoshop a chance. There's nothing as
good for finding edges of stuff (from which to trace lines).

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"Moonraker" wrote in message
.. .
I'm interested in some software recommendations or (how- to- use
techniques)
that will easily and simply let me scan a photo and convert it to a SG
pattern.

My objective is to be able to scan a hard-copy photo of an item....a
handgun, a pet, a flower, maybe even a landscape... and then convert that
continuous tone photo into a line drawing that then could be altered and
resized into a "real" SG pattern.

All without spending half a day with layers and sprites and fussing about
and becoming a PhotoShop jock.

I've searched around in some of the graphics forums looking for tutorials
that might address what I want to do, but no happy ending, yet.

Comments, ideas, suggestions? Thanks.



Try Kodak Easyshare (free download, last time I checked). It has a category
of 'Fun Effects' in it, one of which is 'Coloring Book'. It pretty much
does what the less ambitious sprites in Photoshop do.

But you should still consider giving Photoshop a chance. There's nothing as
good for finding edges of stuff (from which to trace lines).



Another possibility is The Gimp. That is a fairly powerful (but easy to
use) image processing program developed in the Linux world. It is open
source and free. And you can find executable versions for a number of
operating systems, not only Linux.

"Moonraker" wrote in message
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I have access to thousands of filters for both progs. You do the leg work
to find which one will work, email me and I'll try to get it to you to play
with.


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JK Sinrod
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"Moonraker" wrote in message
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"Glassman@work" wrote in message
news:sBL4h.3609$Ue.3295@trndny03...

When you get a solution, don't tell the Chinese, or
they'll be offering SG panels of your house, kids, collectibles for $99
bucks in your choice of colors.

That's exactly where I was headed with all this. Stand by.

"Mike Firth" wrote in message
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$29

Nah...that'd be Brady's price. I can command higher prices. :)

Moonraker wrote:
I'm interested in some software recommendations or (how- to- use techniques)
that will easily and simply let me scan a photo and convert it to a SG
pattern.

Have you tried this link yet, there are two programs.
http://sgdesigns.com/download.php