Dye designs

[BK272]

I'm wondering where everyone gets their designs for the discs they dye. I've been dyeing discs here and there for a couple years now. Bought myself a plotter and love that thing! I search the Internet all the time for cool dye ideas. Sometimes I find something cool, sometimes I don't. My photoshop skills are non existent. Lol. Do you draw the designs and then scan it to your computer? Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. TIA

 

[roggenb3]

I do everything by hand.

Most of my dyes are characters from TV shows. I just watch the DVD on my PC and screenshot whatever frame I want, then print it off. But it's always real grainy, so I then trace over the printed image with a black pen, and then retrace that again onto a clean sheet of paper to use as the stencil. Then hand cut the vinyl.

I can't help you with computery-plotter-vector stuff.

 

[VinnietheAceHole]

http://www.autotracer.org/
This is a great resource.
I use a silhouette and vectors are the easiest source material to trace.
I will use roggenb3's technique if I am going to use a character from a tv show or even a picture of a friend.
I'll find the still I like and then convert to black and white and then input into that autotracer.
Try to keep to 4 colors or less to get good sharp lines(it will be mostly grey scale)

It is a learning process, hard to explain, you just have to mess around with it.

Then you have an image that isn't too hard to convert in your software.

 

[Wraka]

http://www.autotracer.org/
This is a great resource.
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Thank You