Enlarging pattern

Marci MN · #1 06-08-2009, 04:22 PM

I'm just curious to know what you folks may use to enlarge a pattern onto the wood you plan on relief carving on. Do you use a projector of some kind at all? I'm a pretty good drawer, but I'd rather draw small on paper and then enlarge it somehow on to the wood I plan on carving on.

Maybe theres a product out there I dont know about and you do. LOL

Thanks

Marcia.

doris · #2 06-08-2009, 04:53 PM

one way is to draw the pattern any size that is convinient, then make a foto of it, then put it into an image editing program (like photoshop) enlarge it to the exact measurements you want, and if its a size that fits on paper then print it, or if its too big for one piece of paper, put markings horizontal and vertical, cut the document along these markings and print each piece. now tape them together and you have the wished size... sounds more complcated by describing than it is actually

BobD · #3 06-08-2009, 05:15 PM

Another thing you can do is to draw your pattern on a square grid (say 1" x 1") squares. Then draw a 2" x 2" grid on your blank, and use the 1"x 1" grid as a guide as you draw your pattern right onto the blank.
(again, sounds much more complicated than it is).

Bob

TreeWizard · #4 06-08-2009, 05:51 PM

I take it to the local Office Depot and use the enlarge button on the copy machine, I can go from 50% up to 200% amd that has served me well for my needs. I think it now costs me 7 cents per copy.

Dennis Taylor · #5 06-08-2009, 11:18 PM

I have been using a program for my pc...you scan the picture into the pc, and use the program Rapid REsizer, you can then turn the any picture into any size, it will print the pattern out on a standard 8x10 printer paper, and it will use as many sheets of paper to print to make the desired size...I have printed other work that would be poster size....you can goggle Rapid Resizer and get it for a trail demo period, worth a look....it has worked great for me...Dennis

mdallensr · #6 06-08-2009, 11:25 PM

A pattern copied with a copy machine that uses toner (which is most of them) can be heat-transferred onto your work piece by placing it face down on the wood and using an iron to transfer the image. This works really well for complex patterns, such as chip carving or relief, and a flat piece of wood. For non-symmetrical patterns, you may want to reverse it using Photoshop or another photo software, or by making a transparent copy that you can flip in the copy machine. Mike

Marci MN · #7 06-08-2009, 11:49 PM

I'm soo glad I asked.

I do have paint shop pro 7 and can use that for 8x11 size. ( I havent been able to find anything in there to print larger images.

BUT.. I LOVE that Resizer program. I'm also a painter and have had requests to do murals or larger paintings. This is perfect. But.. I do have a question to those who use this program.
Can I insert a pattern/drawing from anywhere to this program for resizing? It mentions scanner.. but how about from a CD or a pattern in one of my folders? I want to know this before I purchase this program.

I want to thank all of you for answering. I know I'll come back to this post to look again for the ideas you mentioned. I didnt know about the ironing.. that will come in handy even after resizing. Carbon paper is becomeing as extinct as dinasours lately.

Again.. thank you so much. I'm so happy that theres something out there.

Marcia

Shimmy · #8 06-09-2009, 12:18 PM

I use a program called Irfanview. You can do loads of things with it.Easy to use.It is a Free program.All carvers should use it. Just go to Irfanview.com and Download it.

IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide

jmischel · #9 06-09-2009, 01:54 PM

Marci

Rapid Resizer says that it will "precisely resize any image." Like any popular image program, it reads images from your computer's hard drive (or from a CD)--not from the scanner.

You can get your images from anywhere. As long as you can get them to a disk drive or CD on your computer, Rapid Resizer can do its magic.

chip · #10 06-09-2009, 04:30 PM

To create drawings larger than 8.5X11 … I use posterazor
postrerazor cuts a raster image (gif, jpg, bmp, etc) into pices called tiles
then saves to a PDF document which can be printed one tile at a time and reassembled to form final drawing.

You can down load this very nice free file here.
>>>http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/<<<

Scale you image using almost any image editor then rename it to preserve the original.

I like IrfanView because it is free and to save on color ink, convert your new scaled image to black and white then create a line drawing then open with posterazor then save as a PDF document.

With posterazor you dont really need an image editor because it will scale with options to include metric units, choice of paper size and border size but will not convert an image to black and white or line drawing.