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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2014 14:19:23 GMT -8
Rick here is a link for installing GMIC into Gimp, it says it may be out of date but it was what worked for me. The round dished frame was done from "arrays and frames" down to the bottom of choices to one called "vignette" Install gmic you tube |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2014 7:16:30 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2014 11:04:04 GMT -8
Unfortunately, next week the weather turns warm quickly and I think we're in for flooding. We're at 13 degrees right now, and magically the switch gets thrown next week and we are supposed to be in the 50's by Thursday. With several feet of snow on the ground, it's going to be messy. Attachments:
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Post by Greg on Feb 12, 2014 18:32:14 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2014 11:45:22 GMT -8
That looks great. Did you use the stain/scuff method to highlight the frigate designation and the ship name? I saw that in the video you'd posted on doing photographs and thought it was an interesting idea that I'd never thought of. Froot Loops are big around our house too, though my wife insists on the ones with marshmallows. I tried looking closer at your border, is that raised? It almost looks like the outer most edge is lower than the edge of the border.....which I guess could be done if you then cut off the edges of the board. Is that stained oak?
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Post by Greg on Feb 13, 2014 23:36:13 GMT -8
LOL, ha I'm not real sure what your asking about on the border but I'm guessing it is the routing along the edge, I have a small table mounted router that i cut those edges with after the main carving is done to give it a more finished look. Yes it is furniture grade oak about 60 bucks @ Home Depot for one board! The reason the fruit loops are there was so the Navy guys could get and idea of the size of the plaque andd they rushed me for that so I did not have a clear coat or all of the final sanding done to show the highlights. After seeing it in this unfinished state they ordered 10 more just like it, the bottom section is a 3" place for a name plate they will put on them for the sailors. If you go with a routing table I suggest using a high grade carbide bit I think that one was around $40 just for that one bit but it makes a big difference especially when cutting real close edges like those because it slices through the board like it was hot butter. s146.photobucket.com/user/gregs_photo/profile/ |
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Post by Greg on Feb 13, 2014 23:46:52 GMT -8
One other thing I did not use any type of blur or gradient what I did was I took their high quality picture and turned it grey then I had to change the color of some places with a bucket fill to raise or lower the parts. It is an amount of trial and error still, I save often and test cut the last two pictures, its hard to get perfect and at some point you will begin to do worse than before so you have to go back a few steps. I can't stress the importance of using a large file to begin your work, this file was a 12 mb bmp. The first board I cut started looking like.. well jagged so I stopped the machine and checked everything only to find out I had saved the file to a very small 600k png file after I went back and fixed that everything was smooth. s146.photobucket.com/user/gregs_photo/profile/ |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2014 4:43:38 GMT -8
Greg, your plaque for Navy looks great!  For the awards are they going to attach a brass engraved plate? And on another note...I was disappointed to learn recently that all fruit loops are the same flavor |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2014 4:50:58 GMT -8
Oh yea, Ditto on the image size, I try to find images that are at least along the lines of 1500 x 1500 pixels. One of my first carvings from an image I made actually ended up with little squares on all the surface, first glance at it I'm thinking what the hell then I realized that each little square was a pixel. I think the I-picture program takes at least 2 to 3x view of what you load in order to create the code.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2014 5:37:59 GMT -8
Currently working on this:  This will be what I am calling an ensemble, no finish work done yet. It's a way to get past the length limitations of the 1013, am going to trim borders out about half of what they are now and the total piece will end up about 40" wide. I made the image and then chose locations to dissect the ends off and save separately from the middle. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2014 8:39:03 GMT -8
Neat idea, it might even be a nice wall hanging with the borders left as is and mounted on the wall with a 1-2" gap between them. Love your creativity.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2014 8:43:49 GMT -8
Greg, when you sleep sometimes you get these great ideas pop in your head. Mine last night was that you'd probably done exactly what you said with the router. Good suggestion on the bit, I have what I inherited with the router table and it seems to do good round over cuts but I haven't spent much time on the other bits. One thing I learned early on with the 1013 is to do the router AFTER cutting the design. I had routed before on a board, and the board came out of the mountings about half way through the cut - it had run up the bit and the machine came to a dead stop. I also tried your stain/scuff trick on a man cave board last night, and I can appreciate your hint to let it dry overnight because I only waited four hours or so and the stain did clog the sandpaper fairly quickly. Came out looking good though...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2014 8:50:40 GMT -8
I had thought that would be the best way to display it, with a gap between the pieces. I might just leave the majority of the edges although I will be running thru the router table with a round over bit. Once finish coats are on it details should pop out pretty good.
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Post by Greg on Feb 14, 2014 10:41:15 GMT -8
The router bit I used is the same cut you see on most furniture just lowered down a lot, I use a scrap board to check the cut up against the carving to make sure there is room for the cut. s146.photobucket.com/user/gregs_photo/profile/ |
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Post by newbie on Feb 14, 2014 13:06:09 GMT -8
Seeing you are posting a few carvings here are some more. Having a problem with file size I will have to take pictures with a camera with less pixels. I have ordered a cepth camera to try and take pictures in the field for grayscale. I was going to post a grayscale bitmap here, but it is 20.3 mb Attachments:
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For the awards are they going to attach a brass engraved plate? And on another note...I was disappointed to learn recently that all fruit loops are the same flavor 
