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posted January 08, 2008 02:13 AM            

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My sister got me a drawing tablet for Christmas:
(Mine's black with a glowing blue ring around that big button on top)

I've been slow in getting to know it and the programs that came with it. This is a trace I did of a photo:
Hopefully it works. Photobucket is closed for maintenance.

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posted January 08, 2008 02:19 AM            

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Here's a couple of "Auto Van Gogh"s:
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posted January 08, 2008 09:57 AM            

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Cool!

You usin' a Mac or PC?

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posted January 08, 2008 11:46 AM            

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PC. It seems like a really fun program. There's still one of the bundled programs I haven't tried out yet.

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posted January 08, 2008 03:43 PM            

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That looks like a really fun toy
Your girlfriend is a beauty! What do you mean "trace" of a photo? Does the program just take a picture and show it in trace form like Microsoft Paint or other products like that? I ask because I did a sketch of a black and white photo of my daughter when she was younger and I wondered if you sketched that or the computer sketched it from a picture, which is what I think you are saying. It looks awesome, so if you sketched it I'm going to have to get out the mouth-drop emoticon... A friend and I had the mall machine do a sketch of us when we were sitting in the booth thingie, it reminds me of that.
So, that's the Van Gogh option

groovy

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posted January 08, 2008 04:09 PM            

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What this program does...at least in the instance we're talking about...is give you virtual tracing paper, so there's a photograph that looks like that, and I took my new handy-dandy computer drawing pencil and traced over the significant lines. So in this case it wasn't an automatic drawing generated by the computer, but rather the computer helped me out by providing the ability to trace. I had various pen and brush options available as well if I wanted to try it a different way.

When I get home tonight I'll try to remember to post the picture this was traced off of.

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posted January 08, 2008 10:01 PM            

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Edit: This illustrates it better:
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posted January 08, 2008 10:06 PM            

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okay I want one, how do I get one? and how much?

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posted January 08, 2008 10:18 PM            

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$100! Can you believe that? (It comes with Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0, Nikon Color Efex Pro 2.0, and Corel Painter Essentials 3.)
http://direct.wacom.com/stores/5/

I've got the Bamboo Fun. Apparently they have nicer ones.

Oh, and now that I look at it, I have the small one...which is fine because my desk space is at a premium.

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posted January 09, 2008 02:17 AM            

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My best friend's Capricorn wife.
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posted January 10, 2008 03:17 AM            

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This doesn't look stellar obviously, but it was a fun experiment. It's part trace, and part paint.
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posted January 10, 2008 10:28 AM            

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Looks like a lot is possible with the program...

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