Posted by Tammy on August 03, 2003 at 09:19:32:
In Reply to: Re: Anyone using Dragonfly software? posted by Deborah King on August 03, 2003 at 06:25:01:
Yea, I should have been clearer. I take a digital picture, or Internet picture that I have saved to my desktop. I import it into the background in the size that I want the stained glass or a size that can be increased to what I want. (There is an option to select the size you want to bring the background image in) Then I use that background image as my guide for creating the lines to the stained glass pattern. When I am done, there is a button on the tool bar that will allow you to show or not show the background image. I turn that off when I print. You do have to create the pattern yourself, but if you are not the best artist in the world it gives you a great starting point. It creates all kinds of versatility using a digital image and enhances my results. I have used Internet images that I have saved, pictures I have taken pictures of old postcards, wildlife & scenery, stained glass I have seen in Victorian homes, and pictures of patterns that I have wanted to change in some way. I use the jpg. as my guide. This is something that I have found really works for me. Plus the computer program prints the pattern to the size that you have selected and you tape the paper together, so there is no Photocopying. I do it all in the program and get a unique result that no one else will duplicate.
I do not have the version that converts the picture automatically. That would be great, but I like creating them from scratch so that I can add and omit what I do not like in the picture I started with. I hope this helps clarify what I meant.
Good Luck!
Tammy