{"id":3701,"date":"2016-10-13T19:52:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T19:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2019-02-22T13:55:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T16:55:05","slug":"draw-hand-adjust-drawing-generate-png","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/draw-hand-adjust-drawing-generate-png\/","title":{"rendered":"How to draw by hand, then adjust the drawing and generate a png"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got tired of using computer tools for expressing my ideas as images. Instead, I started drawing on paper. But I always wanted to change the drawing a little bit. The challenge: I use Windows and I am not an expert on SVG graphics tools.<\/p>\n<p>So below is the current workaround I use for getting my ideas on paper, and then on a .png file using simple and free tools (without being an expert)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Draw by hand on paper<\/li>\n<li>Take a photo of the drawing<\/li>\n<li>Open the jpeg image on <a href=\"https:\/\/inkscape.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inkspace<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Path \/ trace bitmat<\/li>\n<li>Save as .png<\/li>\n<li>Open the .png on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getpaint.net\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paint.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Crop image pieces<\/li>\n<li>Copy \/ paste the pieces on inkscape<\/li>\n<li>Rebuild the image<\/li>\n<li>Save as png<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Below is an example (before and after).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3806\" src=\"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/draw-by-hand-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"draw-by-hand\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/draw-by-hand-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/draw-by-hand.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3807\" src=\"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/MVP-like-this-300x225.png\" alt=\"mvp-like-this\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/MVP-like-this-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/MVP-like-this.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Simple is good. This works for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got tired of using computer tools for expressing my ideas as images. Instead, I started drawing on paper. But I always wanted to change the drawing a little bit. The challenge: I use Windows and I am not an expert on SVG graphics tools. So below is the current workaround I use for getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1946],"tags":[],"inception_activities":[],"colaboradores":[],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entrepreneurship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"inception_activities","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inception_activities?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"colaboradores","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/colaboradores?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}