The Dye A Day Thread! (Part II)

[bombmk]

Originally Posted by tallpat

Nice job. Must be a weeding hell though?

[tallpat]

Surprisingly, not too terrible.

[Dubbo Ego]

thanks for all your help guys, i made my first dye and am happy with it!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/75992459@N04/6824735368/

[steveo69]

Originally Posted by tallpat

This is such a sweet effect. Awesome job.
Can I ask you to brake down the process you used and the length of the dips?

[NorthernDisc]

Surprise! Another GD disc!
Z Nuke

[codus1984]

good work to both gd dyes!! northern you do great work!

[tallpat]

Originally Posted by steveo69

Can I ask you to brake down the process you used and the length of the dips?

Certainly! I start with a B&W photo (or desaturate a color photo), then use the trace bitmap feature on inkscape to create a multi-layered stencil (typically 5-6 shades of grey)... Then, take it to GIMP and clean-up. Weeding is surprisingly easy, just start with the darkest and work to the lightest (typically all of the shades are immediately adjacent to the next shade, so stay working within one "boundry" and you'll be golden). For dye times, from darkest to lightest, 7 minutes, 5 minutes, 2 minutes, 2 minutes, and the 5th layer stayed masked the whole time.

[tallpat]

Originally Posted by tallpat

For dye times, from darkest to lightest, 7 minutes, 5 minutes, 2 minutes, 2 minutes, and the 5th layer stayed masked the whole time.

Maybe I shoulda specified, but the dye times are cumulative for the darker colors (so in reality, the darkest layer was in the dye bath for a total of 16 mins).

[steveo69]

Originally Posted by tallpat

Certainly! I start with a B&W photo (or desaturate a color photo), then use the trace bitmap feature on inkscape to create a multi-layered stencil (typically 5-6 shades of grey)... Then, take it to GIMP and clean-up. Weeding is surprisingly easy, just start with the darkest and work to the lightest (typically all of the shades are immediately adjacent to the next shade, so stay working within one "boundry" and you'll be golden). For dye times, from darkest to lightest, 7 minutes, 5 minutes, 2 minutes, 2 minutes, and the 5th layer stayed masked the whole time.

Originally Posted by tallpat

Maybe I shoulda specified, but the dye times are cumulative for the darker colors (so in reality, the darkest layer was in the dye bath for a total of 16 mins).

Cool thanks! I knew what you meant with the times. But my computer skills lack the knowledge to comprehend the work on the image you described.

[tallpat]

Originally Posted by steveo69

Cool thanks! I knew what you meant with the times. But my computer skills lack the knowledge to comprehend the work on the image you described.

Pretty much, this.