August 8th, 2014, 08:30 AM
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Re: Digitizing profiles of people from photos
This is always a difficult area in terms of digitizing and depends a lot upon the look you are trying to get, your expectations and the time/expense involved.
Many of the digitizing programs these days offer a straight automatic creation from a photograph, so can be incredibly easy to produce. However, the results are not ideal for most uses.
Basically thread, by definition, does not do shading very well unless it is over a large area. So with this automatic conversion you will find it can be very clever, but only looks satisfactory if embroidered very large and viewed from a distance. A bit like those pictures that are made up of thousands of other pictures, if you see what I mean. Furthermore, to create the shades and colors there will be lots of multiple layer embroidery. The end result is that the stitch count will be HUGE!
Should you need smaller renderings, then you need to revert to a 'posterized' style, with just one or a few colors; the most obvious example being the T shirt design of Che Guevara.
With this you can get a much better likeness for smaller designs and limit yourself to one color. Unfortunately, you need a good, recognizable image to start with, otherwise is there is little chance of it looking good in embroidery!
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