Red Ink from now on.

[Foxfold]

I was cutting several things last night but couldn't settle to do just one, so I picked up a new pattern that I'd printed out.

Now this pattern was printed onto yellow paper as this was what I had to hand, but the pattern its self was done in red ink.

Wow, what a difference the red ink made. I could see the teeny tiny blade in my new saw really well and it made cutting a pleasure. I had begun to go cross eyed with my patterns that had black lines as I found it hard to distinguish the blade from the ink and made it a very tiring time for my old brain.

Now to fathom out how to get the patterns I have in my box changed to red ink. !!!!

Edited September 27, 2018 by Foxfold

[tomsteve]

foxfold, if ya figure out how to switch them over to red, can ya let us know? i still cant figure it out. cut one pattern that had red lines and what a breeze it was. but cant figure out how to make black lines red on my printer.

[stoney]

Interesting?   I can't ever remember having or cutting a pattern with red lines.   What I do know is if staying right smack on the line is critical excellent lighting is a must have.

[Scrappile]

You might check the library here.  Somewhere there is an article on how to do it in Gimp.  It can't be too hard to do because I use to do it.  I haven't taken the time to try to figure it out since I got a Mac computer.  I liked red lines with gray instead of black for the cut out sections.  I bet Bob can tell how.  He does a lot of his patterns that color.

[Foxfold]

If I make a pattern either in Inkscape or Word or Publisher and  such like, then the facility to change the line colour isn't difficult. What I'd like to do is take a pattern that I have with black lines and somehow scan it or copy it somewhere and change the lines to red. However, methinks that may well be impossible, but maybe someone with more tech knowledge could say otherwise ?  We live in hope 

[Foxfold]

59 minutes ago, stoney said:

Interesting?   I can't ever remember having or cutting a pattern with red lines.   What I do know is if staying right smack on the line is critical excellent lighting is a must have.

Must confess, good lighting or not I find watching a black blade work on black lines doesn't sit well with my eyes.

[bobscroll]

Hello Brenda, What you do in Inkscape is set the stroke to red and the fill to light grey...so you don't use too much red ink...if you see what I mean, You can alter the red stroke by hovering over the number of the stroke with your Mouse and setting a higher number if you want o.k.

Bob  P.S. To alter your patterns you would need to reload them into Inkscape to edit them...if you had done them in Inkscape

Edited September 27, 2018 by bobscroll

[Scrappile]

Okay, thanks Bob, it must have been Inkscape instead of Gimp.

[loftyhermes]

What I do is, load a pattern in Inkscape, trace it then set the stroke to red and fill to either white or light grey.

[Foxfold]

Mmm, perhaps not making myself clear here.  I can change colour of my patterns that I have done in Inkscape.  I'm talking about the patterns I have downloaded/printed  from elsewhere. They all come in black and white, and wondered if there was a way of changing those  to red with the help of technology, such as scanning them and changing the line colour.

Oh boy, I wish I was better with words   

Edited September 27, 2018 by Foxfold

[Foxfold]

47 minutes ago, loftyhermes said:

What I do is, load a pattern in Inkscape, trace it then set the stroke to red and fill to either white or light grey.

Is that a relatively simple procedure ? Or do I have to be Einstein ?  Sounds promising. thanks

[Rockytime]

I just take my patterns to an office supply store like Office Depot or Staples and have the patterns copied in red. Most of the time I have the patterns either enlarged or reduced to fit the material I have on hand. It's cheap or at least not very expensive. Red makes life so much easier for me.

[loftyhermes]

14 minutes ago, Foxfold said:

Is that a relatively simple procedure ? Or do I have to be Einstein ?  Sounds promising. thanks

I find it simple, with the pattern in Inkscape, go to path and click on trace bitmap, then with the trace selected, left click on the fill colour of your choice, then right click on the colour you want the lines and select set stroke. 

 

[Foxfold]

16 minutes ago, Rockytime said:

I just take my patterns to an office supply store like Office Depot or Staples and have the patterns copied in red. Most of the time I have the patterns either enlarged or reduced to fit the material I have on hand. It's cheap or at least not very expensive. Red makes life so much easier for me.

Well, I never knew you could do that.  I'll try that next week. Thanks for the tip.  

[Foxfold]

Well I've overcome one hurdle at least. If I 'save' my downloadable patterns, then open them with Inkscape,  'Select' the pattern and change the fill and stroke colours it works beautifully, and so simple.  I've done one with red lines on a grey background and I've done one with red lines on a white background so it just shows the red lines when printed.  It just means that I'll have to go through my box of paper patterns and try and remember where I got them from and download them to my 'scrolling' folder on my computer and  although that is going to be a pain in the butt, I think I like red lines enough to go to that trouble.

[OCtoolguy]

1 hour ago, Rockytime said:

I just take my patterns to an office supply store like Office Depot or Staples and have the patterns copied in red. Most of the time I have the patterns either enlarged or reduced to fit the material I have on hand. It's cheap or at least not very expensive. Red makes life so much easier for me.

Les, I now have a laser printer and would love to know how to take a scanned pattern and change it to red/gray. Have you actually seen how they do it? I'd sure love to know.

 

[bobscroll]

I used to always do My patterns just black and one day someone asked Me if I could do it with a red border and no fill,

Then I was asked to do one with grey and red to save on ink...So that's what I do now!

I'm here to please people if I can! lol

Bob 

[don watson]

I use Gimp and I simply open/import the design/pattern, usually a jpg image, go to Colours > Colourise and move the 'Hue' bar to the right to get Red. You can also add the middle bar 'Saturation' to the right to 100%. Click on 'OK' and the jobs a good 'un.

I think Travis answered this question from me a couple of weeks ago

[Rockytime]

2 hours ago, octoolguy said:

Les, I now have a laser printer and would love to know how to take a scanned pattern and change it to red/gray. Have you actually seen how they do it? I'd sure love to know.

 

I have no idea Ray. I just say, "give it to me in red" and it is done. They have a lot of sophisticated equipment. They do not change it to red and grey. They just print it in red.

[trackman]

Steve Good has a you tube video telling & showing how to change to red. I don’t know how to insert links but go to his website click on videos an it is titled “changing pattern to red line “.  Myself a picture tells me more than words.  

[jerry1939]

8 hours ago, Rockytime said:

I just take my patterns to an office supply store like Office Depot or Staples and have the patterns copied in red. Most of the time I have the patterns either enlarged or reduced to fit the material I have on hand. It's cheap or at least not very expensive. Red makes life so much easier for me.

Same here, as I usually make oversized copies of existing patterns.  Just tell them you want Red.

jerry

[OCtoolguy]

6 hours ago, trackman said:

Steve Good has a you tube video telling & showing how to change to red. I don’t know how to insert links but go to his website click on videos an it is titled “changing pattern to red line “.  Myself a picture tells me more than words.  

I've captured that video on my computer and I've watched it more than once. I still can't get my scans to work that way. I've spent way too many hours trying to get Inkscape to work for me. I'm truly frustrated and until I can get someone knowledgeable to actually show me in the same room , I'm sort of giving up. I have other things to do. Maybe someday I'll figure it out.

 

[OCtoolguy]

4 hours ago, jerry1939 said:

Same here, as I usually make oversized copies of existing patterns.  Just tell them you want Red.

jerry

What do they generally charge to do something like that?

 

[jerry1939]

On ‎9‎/‎28‎/‎2018 at 1:04 AM, octoolguy said:

What do they generally charge to do something like that?

 

I usually have other things done there, but I would guess that 1 oversize copy converted to red is less then the cost of a postage stamp.  

[OCtoolguy]

2 hours ago, jerry1939 said:

I usually have other things done there, but I would guess that 1 oversize copy converted to red is less then the cost of a postage stamp.  

It's tough to imagine anybody doing anything that cheap. Maybe I should have held off on buying a laser printer. That was a LOT of stamps.