Took that into Inkscape and traced outline with a vector. Then back in Photoshop I removed the outline so just the veins were left. (Also remove the stem because it was too small in the scale I was printing in). I replaced the raster in my Inckape file with that one.
Showing a friend these pics, he asked “What about the fall colors?” Grape leaves don’t follow fall colors (and if you see red grape leaves, the vines are sick). But I thought what would that look like? Here is the same print in 8 fall colors. I am impressed that anything showed up on the yellows.
BTW the second one down on the left is the one in my hand from earlier posts. Difference between sunlight and shop light.
I swear, if you would introduce a few imperfections into those things they would look just like the real thing…you couldn’t tell them from real leaves.
I did a first 3D engrave on unmasked 1/4" extruded acrylic. It left a residue that I tried removing with alcohol and the part crazed and cracked like crazy. Plus the impression was pretty rough.
So I redid the job with a second pass de-focused to .01. Didn’t use alcohol on the residue but did a light sanding to make it pretty for all you fine people. I also sanded a Popsicle stick to a point.
