Help! Looking for a Cross

[charding23]

Can anyone help? I'm looking for a cross like this I can cut with SCAL. I wish I knew how to make my own!

[newbiecat]

Hello

You could trace the image depending in the copyright issues, if you want to see how to do that here is a link to the video I made about tracing an image in SCAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zh9qzjk0Ao

then you can cut it with your machine
good luck
Pandora

[dragonlord666]

The only problem with tracing that image is it's been taken on a slant (not straight on) so you would need to compensate or correct the image before tracing, otherwise you might find you have a wonky cross

but it would give you a start for the object you want.

Gaz

[newbiecat]

Hi Gaz you are as always completely correct - leaving this in your safe hands - cos I am off to bed night !

[papasue]

I tried tracing in Inkscape but the colors are so faint I couldn't get a clean trace to work with.

I also googled to see where it might have come from but didn't find it.

It is lovely tho and worth pursuing I think.

[dragonlord666]

OK I'm looking online to find out how to straighten the pic.

I think it will require a manual trace using the bezier tool and basically draw around all those shapes. which you could do now but then you'd need to try to align them all on a straight path.... and they might not be the right size/shape to do it.

yes, it's a nice file and would be useful to some

Gaz

[dragonlord666]

OK I'm going to hope I'm not fringing anyone's copyright - if I am, please let me know and I'll remove the file but I have "fiddled" with the image and somehow managed to get it looking half decent............



.......... then manually traced each part and I've come up with this - it's not perfect but not bad, what do you think?

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Gaz

[papasue]

fantastic! how patient you are to hand trace it, and it looks pretty exact to me.

tks

I'm back... it only took a few minutes to add the color and it is even more beautiful.....

[scrapyQ]

Hi I saw this post eailer tonight and I thought I would take on the challenge... and I see I wasn't the only one.... Great job Gaz...love it...

Well here's mine.

Let me know what you all think.....

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Susan

[papasue]

Susan, yours too is perfect! did you also manually trace or did you find a way to do it with software.

lots of members would love to learn how to do this.

thanks