DIY Cat’s Clone Cushion – 1 Preparation a Pic with GIMP
Let’s get start DIY cat’s clone cushion!
Do you have an animal companion? Animal companion makes you relax, heal your heart, rather than human companion sometimes….
Today’s lesson is, make a clone of your animals. With this clone cushion, you may not feel alone in anywhere.
Even your office you can with your companion.
DIY Cat’s Clone Cushion
I am cat craze. I cannot live without cat but for 5 years I cannot have any cat…but I survive….
So I want to have a clone of my cat which I lost. But sadly I could not find any good pics of her.
Then I make a clone of my mom’s cat Coco.
Preparation
What You Need to Prepare DIY Cat’s Clone Cushion…..
I had thought what is the most easier,cheaper, and most satisfactoriness way to make a clone cushion.
And finally I found this is the best way to DIY clone your cat cushion.
1.Pic of Your Animal
I asked my mom to send me Coco’s pics.
This is an original Coco’s pic. How sweet she is!
But this pic is not suitable for this DIY. Very bad example.
To print a pic clearly for A3/Tabloid size, DIY cat’s clone cushion requires
1. Higher resolution pic of your cat. At least around 3000×2000 px .
2. Your cat filled entire pic.
3.Focused your cat exactly. At least its face.
2.Free Image Processor Software GIMP
Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop are very famous and high quality and popular image processor software.
If you have them(or something like them) and used to use them, you will do it very well so pass this page.
Go to lesson 2.
And If you don’t have them, and have never tried similar software,
and want to try it free, I recommend GIMP.
GIMP – GNU Image Manipulation Program
This is very useful vector graphics editor like Adobe Illustrator.
Very high quality and easy to use, but FREE! You can install it from link above.
I am a Mac user so I explain about GIMP with Mac’s interface.
Window’s interface is a little bit different but easy as for Mac’s.
These only 2 things you need to have.
And this page, I’m not gonna explain a detail of how to install and start to GIMP.
But that’s not difficult. Please check their help page.
https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/
Image Processing with GIMP
If you never tried image processing, you may think it would be difficult or troublesome.
Each people has different impression for same thing, so I don’t deny it.
But not TOO difficult, I guess.
At the first, show you what image you will make.
In the original pic from my mom, Coco’s color was very pale so I retouched it more darker.
And background is removed and got transparent.
So let’s DIY cat’s clone cushion together!
1. Open Gimp and Create a New Image
A little bit too small to see, this is the GIMP interface on Mac.
2. Insert Your Cat’s Pic
2. Your cat filled entire pic.
3.Focused your cat exactly. At least its face.
3. Set a Size
It is a bit smaller than the image. Scale it to large to fill your cat the image.
Choice cat’s layer on the layers window, then scale icon on the tool bar.
4. Delate Back Ground
With this Item, draw a line like below. Line is very thin cannot see on the pic so I draw pink line instead of it.
5.Change Color Tone
If you have patience, you can draw a paths with “Paths Tool” and then delate outside of path.
So you can erase the rest at once. But I don’t know which is easier.
Small window open, then click pull down “Angle Box”.