Help with logo

[Smurfman49]

As time progresses I seem to be getting denser. I have this logo that I have tried to carve that looks worse each time I tweak it with all the suggestions I have found on the forum. I have tried pattern editor and carve pic but cannot make it look good. Any suggestions? or can someone do teir thing with it....

[blantz]

Here is my rendition on the logo. Note the pattern is inverted in the picture.

[bjbethke]

As time progresses I seem to be getting denser. I have this logo that I have tried to carve that looks worse each time I tweak it with all the suggestions I have found on the forum. I have tried pattern editor and carve pic but cannot make it look good. Any suggestions? or can someone do teir thing with it....
Hope this helps, for logos I like to make them from vector drawings; I use Corel or Adobe Illustrator to trace the JPEG file and convert it to a vector, then save it in PNG format at 300dpi, remove the background and load it into the Pattern Editor. I used a little Draft on the MPC to give it a 3d look.

[Icutone2]

Now that is a sign to be proud of! Looks great to me.

[Icutone2]

BJB did you carve that sign or is that the background wood in designer?
Wow did you get the wood pattern into designer?
Thanks

[bjbethke]

BJB did you carve that sign or is that the background wood in designer?
Wow did you get the wood pattern into designer?
Thanks
It is the background wood in designer, I carve a lot of cedar, Cedar trees grow great in this rock infested ground on my land, but then I do have lots of pine, oak, hickory and walnut also. Cedar grows on the poor ground, lots of clay and rocks. That was a photo of a cedar board I had. I made the image 512 x512 pixels, and loaded it into the CW wood folder. I named the file "Pine_Cedar" and it need to be a JPEG format image.

[Icutone2]

Thank you I will give it a try and see if i can add some to my files.

[Icutone2]

That did it THANKS again!

[Icutone2]

sorry me again, how can you change it in the designer if it willnot show up as a board pattern?

[Icutone2]

sorry it works now just wait for it.
Thanks again

[bjbethke]

BJB did you carve that sign or is that the background wood in designer?
Wow did you get the wood pattern into designer?
Thanks
Most of the time I make the Edge Route Profile on my Router table, so I also put that edge profile on a Designer wood image so it is not on my MPC when I load the MPC to my CW machine, Memory Card. If I try to sell a carving I like the edge profile on the screen print image. This way I don't forget to remove it when I load it to my card. I also store my patterns I make on CD's, I like to add a screen print to each pattern folder so I can tell what is on each CD I have. I make each folder with the Image I used to make the PTN and include the image, PTN, MPW, MPC, and the screen print in each folder. A CD holds 100 to 150 patterns, depends on the image I make them with. I guess I should try to sell a few of them to pay for my new Band saw mill. Hope this helps you. I use Windows XP and they have a function called “Thumbnails” it shows all the images on each folder.

[Icutone2]

Thanks that looks like a good way to keep all files in order. I currently have them in a clump on the hard drive and I need to organize then and then I can see what I really have. thanks again