From a simple drawing on paper to a nice flower within three minutes
Instruction
I wanted to build a little creation together with my children where they can be creative and have a small gift for their mother. And I thought about how you could use a pen and paper drawing to create a digital part. On the other hand I had in mind that I wanted to do a little instruction video on the framing function in xcs.
I have uploaded both the initial drawing as well as the final xcs file. So you can try it yourself.
If you are interested in the video, you will find it here: https://youtu.be/UQxq0-MYkHw (Sorry this is only in German, but you should be able to use at least the subtitles)
First of all I took a piece of paper and a pen and drew a flower on the paper. Afterwards I have scanned the paper. Notice that my paper had some lines on it. Perfect white paper would be better, but it is no problem to get rid to the lines later in xcs.
Then I loaded the scanned flower in XCS. First we have to adjust the bitmap itself. With the greyscale range we can delete the lines on the paper. Just move the right slider to the left to get rid of the grey colour in the bitmap. Afterwards move the left slider a little bit to the right to get a deeper black for the line.
Not activate the editing function for images. Select the magical wand tool and remove all white parts from the image.
The result after this step is a line-drawing of the flower.
Now use the framing/outline function on this bitmap. We need the frame to be 2mm appart and we need the inner lines also. This will later be the top layer for lasering. Then we repeat this without the inner lines. This will be the base layer.
We can now remove the bitmap, scale the two vectors, set the parameters (se above) and laser this.
Afterwards the base layer will be coloured and the top layer will be glued on top of this.