For what I did, I pulled the original into gimp, and then used the clone
tool to removed the product and dimension from the original. I then
counted the total number of colors in the image (3) and changed the
image to be an indexed image with only 3 colors. That gave me a
completely clean image without any antialiasing. I saved that out to a
PNG file so that it wouldn't have any chance of having any artifacts
introduced like with JPEGs. I then pulled that file into Inkscape.
Once in Inkscape I went to Path -> Trace Bitmap and selected Grays with
3 scans and checked remove background.
That gave me a fairly good representation of the bitmap in vector form.
From there I just simplified the nodes, fixed the hand and then did
some tweaking on the shape of the outline to "make it my own". Then
exported it out to a PNG at a much bigger size.
Brian Cluff
On 05/11/2016 01:14 PM, Mike Bushroe wrote:
I didn't see the second post. Also about 5 minutes each in gimp. I left
the scale the same and did a true silhouette, plus the two-tone image
with the advertising removed. I think that Brian got the top of the hand
cleaner, and I left mine in jpeg. If you needed png or other format to
go to a laser cutter mine would have to be converted. But using
threshold to eliminate almost everything and then paint brush with black
to remove the last bits to make the black and white, then start with
fresh image and paint brush over bottle and line, then change color to
hand and replace missing top shape, then back and forth between colors
with smallest possible paint brush to make the best guess as to the
shape of the hand.
Note that retaining so much of the original image might still come
under copyright restrictions.
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