OT : looking for a silhouette image

[Brian Cluff]

For what I did, I pulled the original into gimp, and then used the clone 
tool to removed the product and dimension from the original.  I then 
counted the total number of colors in the image (3) and changed the 
image to be an indexed image with only 3 colors.  That gave me a 
completely clean image without any antialiasing. I saved that out to a 
PNG file so that it wouldn't have any chance of having any artifacts 
introduced like with JPEGs.  I then pulled that file into Inkscape. 
Once in Inkscape I went to Path -> Trace Bitmap and selected Grays with 
3 scans and checked remove background.

That gave me a fairly good representation of the bitmap in vector form. 
  From there I just simplified the nodes, fixed the hand and then did 
some tweaking on the shape of the outline to "make it my own".  Then 
exported it out to a PNG at a much bigger size.

Brian Cluff

On 05/11/2016 01:14 PM, Mike Bushroe wrote:
> I didn't see the second post. Also about 5 minutes each in gimp. I left
> the scale the same and did a true silhouette, plus the two-tone image
> with the advertising removed. I think that Brian got the top of the hand
> cleaner, and I left mine in jpeg. If you needed png or other format to
> go to a laser cutter mine would have to be converted. But using
> threshold to eliminate almost everything and then paint brush with black
> to remove the last bits to make the black and white, then start with
> fresh image and paint brush over bottle and line, then change color to
> hand and replace missing top shape, then back and forth between colors
> with smallest possible paint brush to make the best guess as to the
> shape of the hand.
>
>    Note that retaining so much of the original image might still come
> under copyright restrictions.
>
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