Need help, please

[AdansMommy]

Can anyone please, please (please?) turn this into a cutable file? I've been trying for 3 days to get it to cut right and just can't. It's for a friend who LOVES corpse bride, and really wants a cut out of this little dog, but I am having major trouble. I guess I need a silhouette of him? I don't know. Help?

[ProfessorLooney]

Give this a try, I am not that great, maybe this will help.

ProfessorLooney

[sensationallychic]

Here's the best I could do.

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[AdansMommy]

Thank you both SO much! Amy, you NAILED it!! Please tell me how you did it!

[sensationallychic]

I found a different pic online to use as the one here was a little out of my league (hard to get a nice trace):D The pic I used had a dark background with a white colored dog. When I traced it in ink, I checked the invert image option and adjusted the threshhold untill I got an image that I thought looked good. After that, I cleaned up a few random nodes and created a shadow for the image by duplicating it and selcting path>outset. Hope my explanation is sufficient!

Heres the pic I used

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[AdansMommy]

What program did you use to trace it? If it's Inkscape, what tool is that?

[sensationallychic]

Yes, I used ink. I imported the jpeg and selected path>trace bitmap. Once the trace window was open, I used the brightness cutoff option with the invert image option checked. I did have to adjust the threshold to get a trace that I thought worked. Does this make sense?

[AdansMommy]

I tried that in Ink, but couldn't get rid of the background noise. I used that picture, too. How'd you get rid of all that extra "stuff?"

[sensationallychic]

To the right of the brightness cutoff selection is a place where you can adjust the threshold. Play with it until you get a trace you can work with. After I had one I thought was good enough, I only had to edit a few nodes by hand. HTH

[cricutcritter]

Here is what i came up with, is in 3 layers: gray background, white bones and black for the eyes. Hope you like it.