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Originally Posted by Toetag
SWEET! can you make any picture a pattern? Like if a enough members wanted the same pattern would you make a few patterns for us to use?
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The short answer is "Yes, but...."
You can take any picture and posturize it into just three colors and use it for carving - assuming you don't leave any unconnected cut-throughs - but you really need decent contrast to make a picture work for a carving like that. Too often you get something that just won't work all that well.
That said, TONS of people on carvingpumpkins.com take just this approach. For my patterns though, I tend to spend a decent amount of time with them. Often I'm stuck with lots of grays that just won't work very well if I just went for three colors. So often I start off with 8-15 colors and slowly work my way down.
But yeah, if you want some patterns made, this should be easy enough. There are also TONS of patterns already made in the carving community. Unfortunately, with recent disney threats of lawsuits, now most people can't post them - instead they just email them to each other.