{"id":540,"date":"2015-11-27T17:33:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T17:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/?page_id=540"},"modified":"2015-11-27T17:33:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T17:33:36","slug":"9-my-approach-to-creating-images","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/9-my-approach-to-creating-images\/","title":{"rendered":"9. My Approach to Creating Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-blogger-escaped-xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"><strong>Let me define<em> &#8220;Images&#8221;<\/em> first:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>The term &#8216;image&#8217; in the graphic art\/design world refers to a visual representation of an object, scene, person or abstraction&#8211;produced on a surface.<\/p>\n<p data-blogger-escaped-xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">Synonyms: graphic, icon, picture, photo, illustration.<\/p>\n<p data-blogger-escaped-xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">I use the following image types in my book-creation process:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Photographs (of my hands, lace pieces, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Illustrations: raster format (line-scale drawings) &amp; vector-format<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table data-blogger-escaped-xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">PHOTOGRAPHS<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>I scan my lace pieces&#8212;at least 300 dpi (usually 600 dpi is adequate)<\/li>\n<li>Then I use Photoshop to clean them up:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a8Erase any background to \u2018white\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u00a8Can change hue\/saturation of the color for best printing quality<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I photograph (with my little \u2018point-&amp;-shoot\u2019 digital camera\u2014set to highest quality\/resolution level) my tools &amp; hands demonstrating an action<\/li>\n<li>I use Photoshop to erase the background\/erroneous elements.<\/li>\n<li>Custom illustration\u2014Line-scale drawings<\/li>\n<li>Goal is to get simple black line drawings onto a totally white background. If you make \u2018closed\u2019 shapes then the interiors of the closed spaces can be colored in a different program. For example, I want to illustrate two different thread sources&#8212;so I color in the threads with different colors (either grayscale differences or two totally different colors)<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Sketch(in pencil) the design on ghost-free paper.<\/li>\n<li>This paper is fairly transparent so that I can easily trace a design I had previously drawn. It is important that you use high quality art\/tracing paper that doesn\u2019t \u2018ghost\u2019 when you erase pencil marks. <em>\u2018Ghosting\u2019 is a faint image of the original pencil artwork after it was erased or that the paper is physically affected by the erasing action.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>When satisfied with the design, I inked-in the design with a black pigment pen. Make sure that the pen you use does not bleed\/run every time you pause in the drawing process with the pen tip on the paper. A good \u2018art-quality\u2019 pen will not do this. I buy my pens from Dick Blick. Brands I use are: Pigma Micron, Staedtler Triplus Fineliner. I do <strong><em>not<\/em><\/strong> use Sharpie brand markers. The are called &#8216;pigment pens&#8217; and are the same pens used by scrapbookers.<\/li>\n<li>Erase away the pencil markings with an old-fashioned, pink or white (clean) pencil eraser.<\/li>\n<li>Scan in the line scale drawing to digitize it as an image.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">ILLUSTRATIONS<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Settings: &#8211;Black and White (not grayscale)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;At least 300 dpi&#8212;you don\u2019t want to go too crazy. Too much dpi (eg 1200) will create a huge file that takes a long time to save, open, edit, convert, etc. every time you work with\/use it.<\/p>\n<p>Save the image as a <strong>jpeg file<\/strong> of the highest quality.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open the<strong> jpeg file<\/strong> in Photoshop.<\/li>\n<li>I like to clean up my images by erasing any stray marks from background.<\/li>\n<li>You can fill in \u2018closed\u2019 areas with grayscale or color. <em>(eg. I create drawings of my tatting stitches as 2-D. Then I can fill in the centers with either 2 different colors to show that I have two different thread sources.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Save again has a high quality<strong> jpeg file.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I like to leave my original file uncorrected and make a second file (\u2018Save As\u2019) with my changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me define &#8220;Images&#8221; first:\u00a0\u00a0 The term &#8216;image&#8217; in the graphic art\/design world refers to a visual representation of an object, scene, person or abstraction&#8211;produced on a surface. Synonyms: graphic, icon, picture, photo, illustration. I use the following image types in my book-creation process: Photographs (of my hands, lace pieces, etc.) Illustrations: raster format (line-scale &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/9-my-approach-to-creating-images\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9. 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