Graphics prog suggestions

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Can anyone suggest a prog that will transform a photo into a pencil
drawing please.
Basically so I can paint over the drawing. It is a lazy way of doing
it, but I'm a far better painter than a drawer.

Thanks in advance

Dave
 
BT said:
Can anyone suggest a prog that will transform a photo into a pencil
drawing please.
Basically so I can paint over the drawing. It is a lazy way of doing
it, but I'm a far better painter than a drawer.

Thanks in advance

Dave
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Photo2Sketch --> http://www.thinkersoftware.com/photo-to-sketch/index2.htm

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are you an artist? why do you want to paint?
Why didnt you learn to draw well?

Do you want to learn how to draw better?
 
BT said:
Can anyone suggest a prog that will transform a photo into a pencil
drawing please.
Basically so I can paint over the drawing. It is a lazy way of doing
it, but I'm a far better painter than a drawer.
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This app is for making coloring books - same general idea. . .

Program: Segger
Company: PoorBruce
Author: Bruce Ball
Ware: (Donationware) (free)
http://www.poorbruce.com/

SeggerSetup_01_00.zip (4042 KB)

The download link seems to be broken ATM (I emailed the author). If
you'd like to try the program and can't download it from the author's
site I can upload the file to YouSendIt for you.

Susan
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Susan I would like that program if you could use yousendit and post the
link!

thanks
 
BT said:
Can anyone suggest a prog that will transform a photo into a pencil
drawing please.
Basically so I can paint over the drawing. It is a lazy way of doing
it, but I'm a far better painter than a drawer.
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If you use a paint program with layers you can paint over the original
picture.

It is like putting a sheet of seethrough plastic or glass over a
picture and then paint on the plastic sheet. Then you just remove the
picture under your painting and voila, there is your handmade painting,
and there was no need for a sketch.

Pixia is a paint program where it is very easy to use layers, but many
other paint programs can be used in the same way.

Even easier, paint on the original picture, until you have covered it
with paint.

I assume you are talking about painting on the computer. But even if
you talk about printing out a drawing on a paper to paint on, you can
use the same system.

Well, there are a few ideas you may not have thought about. Have fun
:-)
 
are you an artist? why do you want to paint?
Hi

No, I am not an artist, I just have an interest in painting.

Some people have the ability to draw, to see the spatial relationships
between objects, including the negative spaces. I am not good at
drawing, but if all the 'cluter' is removed I can make a resonable
replication of a drawing.
Other have the ability to colour mix. To see the colours, to see what
pigments make up that colour. I am good at that.
Others can paint well and mix colours, and others are not good at
colour mixing and have to carry quite a large number of ready mixe
tubes of paint with them to compensate. I can paint reasonably well
though.
I do not at the moment have time to learn to draw as most of my time is
taken up for the next 6 months or so. Maybe in the future I would like
to learn to draw.
I hope that answers your question.
Dave




Why didnt you learn to draw well?
 
Dave....

I must tell you that I am, among other things, I am a professional
illustrator and cartoonist & animator.

I have to tell you that anyone can learn to draw perfectly as long as he has
functioning brain
and eyes (in fact only one eye is enough). I do not include hands, since
there are "disabled" artists that use their feet or even their mouth to
draw.

I know the SECRET on how you can learn to draw like you never ever thought
you could in
a matter of 2 weeks. Because drawing leads the perception of shadows, that
leads to the perception of color;
you cannot skip learning to draw if you want to paint realistically. If you
want to make abstract paintings,
its a different thing and you can do so without learning to draw.

The stages of drawing is like this Perception of line>perception of
shadow>perception of color> perception of the whole.

If you break or never master the first step, you hinder all the rest....

Its a shame for people to struggle.. and I am thinking of putting together
an online course to share this knowledge...

I keep bumping into people who think its too hard or needs too much time,
but in fact its tremendously easy!!! Its stupid for me to keep this
knowledge to myself.... what good is it doing just sitting in my brain?

What do you think?
 
John said:
Dave....

I must tell you that I am, among other things, I am a professional
illustrator and cartoonist & animator.

I have to tell you that anyone can learn to draw perfectly as long as he has
functioning brain
and eyes (in fact only one eye is enough). I do not include hands, since
there are "disabled" artists that use their feet or even their mouth to
draw.

I know the SECRET on how you can learn to draw like you never ever thought
you could in
a matter of 2 weeks. Because drawing leads the perception of shadows, that
leads to the perception of color;
you cannot skip learning to draw if you want to paint realistically. If you
want to make abstract paintings,
its a different thing and you can do so without learning to draw.

The stages of drawing is like this Perception of line>perception of
shadow>perception of color> perception of the whole.

If you break or never master the first step, you hinder all the rest....

Its a shame for people to struggle.. and I am thinking of putting together
an online course to share this knowledge...

I keep bumping into people who think its too hard or needs too much time,
but in fact its tremendously easy!!! Its stupid for me to keep this
knowledge to myself.... what good is it doing just sitting in my brain?

What do you think?
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Please get it out of your brain and online for the rest of us!!

John Cummins
 
BT said:
Thanks for the ideas.
Actually, I was thinking of giving both methods a try.
regards
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There are enormous amounts of free stuff on the web.
Art lessons, drawing lessond, learn to paint, etc..

I found a few nice places just by googling for a few minutes
http://www.geocities.com/~jlhagan/lessons/mainmenu.htm
http://www.drawbooks.com/artschool/index.htm
http://www.artgraphica.net/

Of course you need to wade through droves of commercial stuff to find
the free resources, but it's like that to find free software too.

Suddenly you will find a place like this newsgroup, where people have
gathered free painting and drawing resources, and then it will be even
easier.

I happened to see a video lesson series about oil painting on tv which
made me think that I can paint whatever I like. It was a series of
lessons with Bob Ross, who gave me so much.

He tought me how to build up a painting starting with the things that
are furthest away in the perspective, like the sky and the water
surfaces, then add far away mountains, then forests and fog closer,
then trees and stuff and then stuff that are really close to the
viewer. It gave deep to the painting, a way to build up depth in the
paintings.
 
Well, I'm not Susan (as far as I know) but this link did work:
http://www.poorbruce.com/SeggerSetup_01_00.zip
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Did you get a FULL download? SeggerSetup_01_00.zip (4042 KB) I didn't
post that link because it's not working properly here ATM - I get part
of the file and then it quits. . .

Haven't heard back from the author yet. . .

Susan
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I must tell you that I am, among other things, I am a professional
Please get it out of your brain and online for the rest of us!!

John Cummins
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Yes, I second that.If your sure you can do it.

If it helps anyone to improve their skill, or
lack of it, and moves them onto the next stage,
both you and the pupil have won.

I use colour and gradations of colour mixes
to suggest form, I suppose to sculpt in a way.
So I am aware of that but I never found I
could do much with a pencil line. It kind of
lost its 3D shape.

As I said I am not an artist, but I enjoy a bit
of painting now and then. So if you can bring
a bit of light into the subject, I am sure you
will get a lot of interested people

regards
Dave
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Dave, Ill tell you what...

I will do it. Especially for you I will give you a seat totally free for
this tutorial as a gift since
this conversation jumpstarted this idea I had burried in the back of my
mind.

send me an email - reminder at this url http://zoomurl.com/7042761

and when I have the content ready I will get back to you (I will need about
a week to prepare)

I am thinking of having about 15 people in the virtual class :-)

You will see that this will be a life altering experience... :-)
 
Did you get a FULL download? SeggerSetup_01_00.zip (4042 KB) I didn't
post that link because it's not working properly here ATM - I get part
of the file and then it quits. . .
Click to expand...

Link is good.
 
I downloaded and installed it without problems.
(except that the install program used invisible language in my win98se)

The program works quite well after some fiddling around with the
controls, but you should use pictures with fairly even structures, big
differences in lighting level is difficult to handle.
Did you get a FULL download? SeggerSetup_01_00.zip (4042 KB) I didn't
post that link because it's not working properly here ATM - I get part
of the file and then it quits. . .
Click to expand...

My filemanager gives the size as 4 139 344 bytes.
 
If you sent an email resend, because I had a glich.. my site is still being
worked on! lol
 
Roger said:
Susan Bugher wrote:
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I downloaded and installed it without problems.
(except that the install program used invisible language in my win98se)

The program works quite well after some fiddling around with the
controls, but you should use pictures with fairly even structures, big
differences in lighting level is difficult to handle.
Click to expand...
My filemanager gives the size as 4 139 344 bytes.
Click to expand...

The download problem must be at my end. That size agrees perfectly with
the file I have. Thanks Roger. :)

Susan
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