How do you convert a picture to a Silhouette or SVG

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How do you convert a picture to a Silhouette or SVG

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I have a customer who wants me to see if I can design the attached photos of his Tree Walker Dog. Any ideas on how to successfully do this to a photo?

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Re: How do you convert a picture to a Silhouette or SVG

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A quick way would be Google clip art of hunting dags, hounds treeing you should find very similar images already converted.
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Re: How do you convert a picture to a Silhouette or SVG

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Thank you acourtjester. I did look at some before I posted. I was just hoping maybe to get his dogs markings right for him. I really appreciate your help. I'll let him know the images are too difficult to trace and convert.
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Re: How do you convert a picture to a Silhouette or SVG

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Id find a dog resembling that breed and just trace his markings and overlay it on the good one.
You can trace this one too, and compare it to one you save just to make sure it's similar.
Keep in mind we tend to try and make things perfect but we are the only ones that see little things.
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Re: How do you convert a picture to a Silhouette or SVG

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Great idea. I'm definitely going to try that. Thank you Cstroke.
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