Another Question about Scanning Lineart

[AngieLovesHerCricut]

I used to draw cartoons (My Little Pony, Care Bears, Dogs, Spongebob, etc) I have all this line art that I could potentially scan and cut I guess?

I was wondering what would be the best way to scan (settings) in these images and save them? Anyone have any experience with such a thing?

Thanks Much

[jamie Lane]

Someone else may need to chime in here as I am also fairly new and may not know the best/easiest way...
You have to make sure your lines all complete (touch) where they are suppose to and the darker you can get the lines the easier I find them to work with. What I do is scan or photograph the art and then import it to my pc. Once you get them on your computer, open Inkscape and trace them. If I am working with colored images, I trace them by color and then break them apart and pick which layers I want for the cut. I save the file as SVG and then I can import them in SCAL.

Hope that helps!
Jamie

[HeatherM]

I have a basic tutorial on tracing line art in Inkscape here. I also have tutorials on non-ideal images and connecting lines.

[firstcut]

Here’s the rule of thumb. When you autotrace an image for SCAL, you need to start with an image that looks like what you want the cut*out* to look like, not what you want the cut*lines* to look like. For instance, if you want a simple heart cutout, autotrace a solid heart silhouette. If you trace the line drawing of a heart instead, SCAL will trace both the inside and the outside of the heart and you will get double lines.
If all you have is a line drawing to trace, then I like to use the paint bucket in Inkscape for this. It will trace only the inside of the lines so you won’t get doubles. A mini tut on my blog here
http://cleversomeday.wordpress.com/2009 ... -tutorial/
If you have to autotrace a line drawing in SCAL2, set the option to break apart, then zoom in so you can see the double lines and delete one of them. This has to be done for every piece.
There is one more solution and that is to use this online service to do a centerline trace
http://www.roitsystems.com/cgi-bin/autotrace/tracer.pl
Keep in mind that all of the lines created with the centerline trace method will need to form a closed path, so it may or may not be appropriate for your image, depending on what it looks like.
And I will throw in one more reference for the future, my pictorial index to tutorials
http://cleversomeday.wordpress.com/images-to-svg

[gingerd]

I think I need this info too!

Thanks!
Ginger

[AngieLovesHerCricut]

Thanks so much for the info! Much helpful.