Today’s thank you’s go to Sherri S and to Kaleigh C for ideas on how to find images for auto-tracing in KNK Studio.
Someone at one of the Yahoo groups was looking for football images. Now normally, I would send them to Picsearch or to Google and then perform the search and click on Images. But Sherri did it one better… she googled on: Football Silhouette. The following two screen shots illustrate the difference in what you get:
Search Results on "Football"
Search Results on "Football Silhouette"
Obviously the second search yields much better/easier images for auto-tracing due to the black and white nature of the images and also the simplicity in the detail.
So, I was relating this find to my friend, Kaleigh S, who told me that she enjoys locating free coloring book images and does a similar search, except uses “coloring book” in place of “silhouette”. Here are the results from that search:
Search Results on "Football Coloring Book"
Again, you get black and white images and, even better, different images from the first search. Now, auto-tracing these images will results in double lines, but those are fairly simple to edit out and it’s worth using this “coloring book” search in case the images you originally find are not quite what you are needing for your personal project.
As always, tracing these Internet images does not make them yours to share or sell without the permission of the original designer. You’ll need to hunt down the Terms of Use or contact the original designer if you want to do more with them. But for your own personal use, have fun!
Thanks for the newest video and all the other things you do to help us! And congrats to Chris on her 1st year.
Sandy – Your videos are wonderful. There’s so many possibilities! Where do I start?
Congrats Chris on the 1 year anniversary. Hope many good years to come . Thank you Sandy to for all your wonderful help and the videos you make they have helped me so much.
You’re welcome! And yes… a great big CONGRATS to Chris! Did you post a comment on my blog post today so that you’ll be entered in her contest?
Hi Sandy’
I am so excited to be back using my cutter. You have been a huge help. Thanks you.I see that many changes have happened since I have been gone. Looking forward to catching up. And I see on Chris’s blog a “congrats to Chris” is in order on her 1 yr. anniversary!
Thanks to both of you and everyone else for always being there to help.
It looks like there are a lot of talented people at Chris’s site. I will be looking on a regular basis for more new die cuts.
Hi Sandy,
I hope I am posting in the correct place to say “congrats to Chris” and try for a free membership. Thanks, Shirley
This is great information! I recently started using coloring book images, but I’m going to try the silhouette next time. Thank you for sharing and teaching me to love my cutter!