Tapestry Portrait ...

[Egg Bramhill]

Still messing around with the same theme but using the contours of the bitmap

[Egg Bramhill]

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[Egg Bramhill]

By doing the above you can get quite a vector or 3d depth
Egg

[Egg Bramhill]

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[Soquili]

I tried Egg's idea about applying a bevel to a cross-stitch. After two hours of Processing...Please wait. I gave up and ctl+alt+deleted out. Of course I hadn't saved before hand, so I had to recreate the x-stitch and put it over a canvas filled rectangle and framed it. There are 1025 X's in the image (just so Ross doesn't have to count them [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] )

Soquili [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

[whkguamusa]

I did this one right after I downloaded the Xara trial.
For the background I took one of the photos, turned it into a dual tone, rotated it, applied the same weave filter Ross used ,then rotated it back. It came out looking vary much like weaving done here using coconut leaves.

[gwpriester]

Eric and Soquili

Great explorations. I especially like Soquili's rendition. It looks like it was photographed though a screen door (a cool technique for imitating a tapistry effect, by the way).

I tired my hand at cross stitching.

I used a fat rounded rectangle with white to black Linear fill. I applied a Luminosity, 60% transparency to the shapes. (I also removed the overlapping portion of the X using a duplicate top shape and Combine Shapes, Subtract Shapes.

While the top half shows the pattern. in reality, were we to actually create a tapistry, each cross stitch could be no more than two colors, so the bottom half is a bit more accurate.

Gary

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[wfcentral]

I keep looking at the images and as cool as they look...it seems they are missing one part. The photo should be run through a filter to pixelize or mosaic the image so that each "X" of the stitching falls on one color. It spoils the image to have threads that fade from one color to the next... sorry, I have done many cross-stitches myself (before I had a computer and no time)...

Robert

[panfer]

Love all the images. Thanks for sharing.