My poor blog has been abandoned again!
I've spent some of my time learning to use GIMP , an Open Source program for image manipulation. I'm still far from mastering it as I find it rather complicate... for easy things such as resizing, cropping or adding notes on photos I still prefer Picnik , that is of immediate use and there's no need to install anything... But GIMP is more complete and advanced.
I've also tried my first attempt of vectorial graphics... I've taken a photo of my holidays last year; it's a detail from the floor in Battistero San Giovanni, Florence, which shows zodiac signs.
I had taken a picture of Scorpio as it's my daughter's sign...Actually the floor was quite worn, so the sign is not in great conditions...
But I liked its rather absurd look; apparently the maker had never seen a real scorpion as he represented it like a sort of lizard with almost invisible pinchers and a huge pincher on the tail...
After struggling a long time with GIM (and its layers, and anchor points that appeared and diappeared, reducing my pattern to a complete mess several times), this was the best I could obtain....
I can't really say I like it... But at least I'm learning to use the tool. And probably the pattern won't be terrible if stitched in trapunto fiorentino...
I've spent some of my time learning to use GIMP , an Open Source program for image manipulation. I'm still far from mastering it as I find it rather complicate... for easy things such as resizing, cropping or adding notes on photos I still prefer Picnik , that is of immediate use and there's no need to install anything... But GIMP is more complete and advanced.
I've also tried my first attempt of vectorial graphics... I've taken a photo of my holidays last year; it's a detail from the floor in Battistero San Giovanni, Florence, which shows zodiac signs.
I had taken a picture of Scorpio as it's my daughter's sign...Actually the floor was quite worn, so the sign is not in great conditions...
But I liked its rather absurd look; apparently the maker had never seen a real scorpion as he represented it like a sort of lizard with almost invisible pinchers and a huge pincher on the tail...
After struggling a long time with GIM (and its layers, and anchor points that appeared and diappeared, reducing my pattern to a complete mess several times), this was the best I could obtain....
I can't really say I like it... But at least I'm learning to use the tool. And probably the pattern won't be terrible if stitched in trapunto fiorentino...
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