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Posted by michele on July 3, 2006, 9:34 am
Please log in for more thread options why are you needing to duplicate the drawing? If larger than standard
printing size, draw to size? If you must make a copy (but whatever for) use
butcher paper or similar and trace the darn thing. Now THAT'S the
old-fashioned way. As for a mosaic pattern, just draw the outlines, cut lots
of little pcs., and fill the areas. No special pattern is required???? m
>
> garysoudyglass wrote:
>> If you want to become computer literate and you are willing to invest
>> the time and energy to do so, the best programs for designing are the
>> major graphic design suites from companies like Adobe and Corel. I you
>> just want to do the basics and occasionally trace a pattern from an
>> existing photo or other graphic art, then you might want to check out
>> Glasseye from www.dfly.com and Kodak Easyshare. There also are low
>> cost or freeware CAD programs available on the interent that offer
>> precise drawing and reprographic capability, but they don't offer a lot
>> in terms of experimental effects and filters for design possibilities.
>> They aren't that easy to learn either. They take a comittment like the
>> full design suites do.
>>
>
> thank you gary,
>
> i've downloaded Glasseye's 30 day free trial...so far, i'm not thrilled
> with what
> i've been able to do with it...NOT that it isn't an incredible program,
> but i'm an
> artist and can design my own stuff...what I can't do is produce
> identical designs
> under my current conditions (i live far from a photo-copier hence, i
> need a way
> to spit out identical designs from my printer once i've drawn them!)
>
> additionally, what i'd like to be able to do is to take one of my
> line-drawings and
> turn it into a computer-generated MOSAIC pattern.
>
> I'm aware that what I want may not exist. To date, no one's been able
> to definitely
> tell me YES or NO....here's the question in the most basic form:
>
> can i take a picture (either one of my own...ie a digital photo or a
> digital photo of
> a drawing) and generate a 'mosaic pattern' that I can print out and use
> to produce
> a piece of Art Glass??
>
> i 'sort of' jury-rigged a way to duplicate one of my own drawings...I'm
> trying to
> perfect it though....i do a full-size drawing, then cut it into A4 size
> pieces and
> then run it through the fax machine!!! it's as close to a reproducible
> full-size
> drawing (after taping the pieces together) that I can get here in the
> boonies...
>
> until i find a software program that will let me do the same thing, i
> guess i'm
> stuck with my digital camera, my fax machine, scissors and
> scotch-tape!!
>
> is there a simplier way to do this?? or is this IT?
>
> thanks again.
>
> a.
>
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