How can I clean up a fuzzy picture?

David · David's Garage

I'd like to make the picture below clean enough that I can run it through a program to generate G-code for a water cutter to cut out a 24" piece. Anyone know of a program that can do that?

stomachmonkey · 08-24-2009, 08:34 AM

Take into Photoshop.

Turn into Grayscale.

Use Levels to set clean black and white point.

Turn into Bitmap using 50% threshold, no dither, 1200 dpi at least.

You might be able to bypass the levels step and go straight to Bitmap.

Live trace it and save as eps vector.

stomachmonkey · 08-24-2009, 08:44 AM

If you don't have any higher resolution than you posted forget the Live Trace option.

Just tried it, too pixelated.

Needs to be recreated as Vector art in Illustrator.

If you can wait I can bang it out tonight for you.

HardDrive · 08-24-2009, 09:37 AM

The photo is too low quality. No matter how you bump it, its going to be too pixelated. The piece was placed against a white background when photographed, and there is a slight shadow all around its edge. Too messy.

stomachmonkey · 08-24-2009, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by HardDrive

The photo is too low quality. No matter how you bump it, its going to be too pixelated. The piece was placed against a white background when photographed, and there is a slight shadow all around its edge. Too messy.

Actually the drop shadow is a photochop filter.

Needs to be retraced as a vector to clean up.

David · David's Garage

I offered to waterjet cut these for my aunt's cabin's gates, but it would take me dozens of hours to redraw these. Any help is greatly appreciated and I can waterjet cut something in return. There are actually two items, here's the other one:

David · David's Garage

Bigger pic:

stomachmonkey · 08-24-2009, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by 125shifter

I offered to waterjet cut these for my aunt's cabin's gates, but it would take me dozens of hours to redraw these. Any help is greatly appreciated and I can waterjet cut something in return. There are actually two items, here's the other one:

It's about 1 to 1.5 hrs work to recreate the 1st one. Then the second one is easier, the bear is the only diff and the only thing that needs to be recreated.

David · David's Garage

Quote:

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

It's about 1 to 1.5 hrs work to recreate the 1st one. Then the second one is easier, the bear is the only diff and the only thing that needs to be recreated.

I would greatly appreciate any help you can give and I can return the favor with some machining/welding/waterjet work

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