Picture to Wood Proposal Portrait Carving - Wondering if this is a first.

[floridacarver]

Ma Cherie, Will you Marry Me!!! I've done wedding pictures in the past but this is a first for me. Recently I had a request to create portrait carving to be used as a wedding proposal. Here's a copy of the original picture and a copy the the finished portrait. A follow up call a week later to see if he liked the carving and guess what, she accepted.

[badbert]

That came out really nice! Care to share a few details?

[floridacarver]

Are you planning a wedding proposal in the near future?

A few details, each picture is evaluated for tone, color and background features. Based on that evaluation moved into the paint program or photo shop and altered slightly then imported into the designer software.

Will you be at the CW Conference this year?

[Capt Bruce]

Our congratulations both to you as the creator and to the happy Couple. Great to see the project as developed and to know it lead to a Happy beginning for them. I too would be interested in your process of "evaluating the tone, color and background features." and then how you deal with these in paint or Photoshop. Oh and welcome to the Forum. Thanks

[Alan Malmstrom]

That Photo actually lends itself very well to becoming a good carveable image. I used njob on it: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=68860 and then brought it into gimp and set it up as an grain merge layer over a grey layer that I very quickley airbrushed a bump for the grain merge layer to project over. And it came up like this.

njobPhoto1.ptn

[floridacarver]

Thanks for your reply, the ptn image looks good. I usually only gimp to remove the background if it's very busy. Otherwise I just use the photo as is.

[lynnfrwd]

Joe is going to tell us all about it as a guest speaker at the conference in June.

[floridacarver]

Hello Capt. Bruce, glad you like the project. I was amazed to see the gentlemen use the carving as a way to propose marriage and happy I was able to assist in his proposal. He actually wanted to drive from Tallahassee to Tampa to pick it up.

[fwharris]

Will you be at the CW Conference this year?

No the real question is "Are you going to be there?" Hope so and I think your process would be a great conference topic!!!

[floridacarver]

Not sure if I'll be attending at this point.

Agreed, portraits would be a great topic, a new way to capture a memorable moment.