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Title: Bus drawings wanted
Post by: Len Silva on October 25, 2006, 08:56:38 AM
I am looking for any and all drawings of busses (not photos) for engraving
http://www.busconversions.com/bbs/index.php?topic=1897.0

I prefer nice black and white line drawings in a CAD format but I'll take anything I can get.  I've pretty much checked all MS Clipart and Peter McLaughlin's stuff at http://www.busdrawings.com/

Anything you might have or can point me to would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Len
Title: Re: Bus drawings wanted
Post by: Ncbob on October 25, 2006, 04:28:37 PM
Hi Len,

It won't be long before we're in Central FL for the winter.  I'd really like to talk with you one day, perhaps at Arcadia, about doing a set of glasses with our bus carved into them.  All I have is the profile of the bus...but wouldn't that be neat to have guests over for a glass of Orange Juice (?) and have a set of glasses with the bus profile in them? ;)

We'll talk later, for sure......

NCbob
Title: Re: Bus drawings wanted
Post by: larryh on October 26, 2006, 07:23:52 AM
Len there is a free program I use for making a drawing like you want out of any photo  search for Irfanview it is easy to use I use it for drawing to wood burn and to air brush off from I make a clear acetate and put in a overhead projector I have printed and use transfer paper and works good

LarryH
Title: Re: Bus drawings wanted
Post by: eglluvr on November 13, 2006, 02:59:48 PM
Quote from: larryh on October 26, 2006, 07:23:52 AM
Len there is a free program I use for making a drawing like you want out of any photo  search for Irfanview it is easy to use I use it for drawing to wood burn and to air brush off from I make a clear acetate and put in a overhead projector I have printed and use transfer paper and works good

LarryH

Larry, what function are you using to convert the photo?  Emboss?

Jim
Title: Re: Bus drawings wanted
Post by: HighTechRedneck on November 13, 2006, 03:26:47 PM
While it won't create line art, if you have Photoshop, try the Stylize>Find Edges filter.  As an example, I used a photo from the ones posted in the bus photos thread for a before and after demo.  I am not familiar with Irfanview but I just glanced at it and it may have a similar filter.  Corel PhotoPaint does too.  In fact, the Corel Draw package includes (or at least used to, I haven't looked lately) a utility named Corel Trace that creates line drawings from photos.  Using Corel Trace takes a lot of trial and error practice to get good results.
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