FUDCon Brno tshirts

[Máirín Duffy]

Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Máirín Duffy wrote:
>>
>> - I don't think you need to trace, but there is a bit of noise in the 
>> Inkscape automatic trace. The way I got rid of this when doing the 
>> FUDcon Boston design (my first tries had the same noise) was to boost 
>> the contrast of the image in the Gimp first; I think I fiddled with 
>> the levels a bit, then duplicated the original layer on top of itself 
>> with one of the layer blending modes (I don't remember which one; I 
>> just kept playing). If there were some fine details I knew wouldn't 
>> come out in the final trace I doctored them out manually with a dark 
>> brush! :)
> 
> Whoah! I tried those steps with the Boston photo 
> (http://www.flickr.com/photos/b-tal/193801686/) and it works very 
> smoothly (and setting the duplicate layer mode to "divide" is a world of 
> difference.

Ah that's not the photo we actually ended up with. It looks like I need 
to update the T-shirts page! Because the license was non-commerical on 
that photo, I went and took my own photo of Boston and used that one. 
You can see the difference:

the final t-shirt:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mairin/2591006734/in/set-72157605799609636/

the photo used for the design:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mairin/2540006511/in/set-72157605368533939/

And yeh, the photo I took didn't come out as well as the original photo 
I used for the design :(

~m