silhouette notes
Today I began my final correspondence themed project. I did not know what I was going to do until this morning when it dawned on me.
My daughter, Gloria, receives many gifts from family and fans. Who can blame them - she is totally awesome. In return for that stuff, I send out thank you notes. I love stationary, but if anyone could use personalized stationary, it’s not me, it’s Gloria.
So I flipped through some clipart and found a little girl silhouette I liked, but it decidedly did not resemble my little girl’s silhouette. So I decided to make my own silhouette of Gloria. I cannot draw, so that was not an option. Nor was the traditional art form which would be like drawing, but with scissors. So I took a photo of her profile and began to futz with the image in Photoshop Elements, which I have no idea how to use. It is nothing short of a miracle that I designed the card in Elements. I may not have used a good approach but I succeeded.
I may use a pen to try and get rid of some of the pixel look to the image. If you have suggestions on how to do that in Elements itself, please leave a comment.
Finally I will use my gocco to print the cards - I have to xerox the picture before I continue because an inkjet printout is not suitable to make the gocco master. I have included the template I will use for my master. I am pretty stoked.
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beautiful card.
to “get rid of pixels” and get the possibility to resize /enlarge this cart for a good quality print, i would vectorize the graphics. try VectorMagic (free online tool/software) to do it: http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/
This is nice. I have been wanting to make silhouettes, also - that’s a great idea to use Photoshop. I’m going to try that! And I hope you share your gocco results.
ps. I can attest to Vectormagic - it’s great!
Thanks!
I actually corrected it by hand with the gocco pen and it looked really nice. But I am definitely going to check out VectorMagic.