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General Category => Pattern Requests. => Topic started by: donmike on December 26, 2015, 01:53:04 pm

Title: making patterns
Post by: donmike on December 26, 2015, 01:53:04 pm

Hello, iam new on this forum. Iam from holland and like to make scroll saw items.

Now I want to make a pattern from a photo. On steve's blog he use corel draw. And on the internet they al use a windows system. I have a iMac and can't find a program.

What program can i use for my iMac.

pls help........

Title: Re: making patterns
Post by: kc0iv on December 26, 2015, 05:37:28 pm

Quote from: donmike on December 26, 2015, 01:53:04 pm

Hello, iam new on this forum. Iam from holland and like to make scroll saw items.

Now I want to make a pattern from a photo. On steve's blog he use corel draw. And on the internet they al use a windows system. I have a iMac and can't find a program.

What program can i use for my iMac.

pls help........

You could run Inkscape.  https://inkscape.org/en/

leon
kc0iv

Title: Re: making patterns
Post by: don in brooklin on on December 27, 2015, 05:58:13 am

If you want to make a pattern from a portrait, one way is with GIMP.  Free and I understand it runs on MAC too.
https://www.gimp.org/

There is a really cool video series at Scroll Saw Village in the University on making portrait patterns.

http://www.scrollsawvillage.com/forum/47-village-university/

I use Inkscape for making other patterns but I am not sure that is the best to transform a picture to a pattern.

Good luck and make sure you  post some pictures.

Title: Re: making patterns
Post by: ptofimpact on January 04, 2016, 08:18:51 am

Don thanks for the info, id the Gimp program safe to download?

Title: Re: making patterns
Post by: don in brooklin on on January 04, 2016, 08:54:37 am

I believe so but I would download directly from GIMP even if takes longer.  I am not a geek and had issue with Bit Torrant downloads before.

If I download from someone I don't know I always run a scan after downloading and installing.

Good luck.

Title: Re: making patterns
Post by: ptofimpact on January 05, 2016, 08:32:33 am

Don many thanks for your time and help
Pete