Craft Edge

Hi. I'm new here....loving it so far!! I would like to know how to separate out colors on a picture to cut out the different layers in vinyl. I'm trying to cut out the mascot for my child's school. Any advise would be welcome.

Thanks!!!
Kim

Hopefully this website will help you http://dan99.blogspot.com/search/label/tutorial.
Good luck,
Carolien

Hopefully this website will help you http://dan99.blogspot.com/search/label/tutorial
PS You have to scroll down to the 20th January 2009.
Cheers,
Carolien

I really wouldn't recommend using that method for this image since it will give you stacked traces with a thin black frame on the top of four other colors. You might try modifying this tutorial to trace each color http://dan99.blogspot.com/2009/01/video ... o-svg.html and then use a basic trace to get the black background.

I played with this image last night and wasn't happy with any of the things that I tried in Inkscape. The image is pretty low resolution with a lot of jpeg artifacts. It would be much better if you had a higher res image.

Thanks for the info, I had no idea where to even start. Very appreciated. I'll try to get a better picture from school too.

Kim

Ok, I've tried...even got a better pict., but I can't figure out how to do it. I used inkscape and it will break down the hawk into a bunch of different colored hawks, but not into the individual shapes for the colors. Is what I'm wanting even possible? I don't know...
I'll attach the better hawk if there is anyone who could assist me....many thanks!!! This is for a project for my school's silent auction in a few weeks.

Kim

Here ya go. i used the paint bucket with default settings to do the conversion.

OMG!!! Thanks you, thank you, thank you!!!!!

How did you do that?

Here's the finished product...again thanks for the help.

Boy if I made the brown - blue instead - and changed lettering I could use that for our school back home.... if sharing file

Fighting - BlueJays - SHS - Shepherd High School - Michigan