{"id":210,"date":"2010-02-04T23:42:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T04:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.wordpress.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2020-07-11T15:07:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T19:07:41","slug":"45-of-365-is-a-self-portrait-with-a-scowl-inkscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/02\/04\/45-of-365-is-a-self-portrait-with-a-scowl-inkscape\/","title":{"rendered":"45 of 365 is a self portrait with a scowl #inkscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_211\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20100204.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211\" data-attachment-id=\"211\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/02\/04\/45-of-365-is-a-self-portrait-with-a-scowl-inkscape\/attachment\/20100204\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20100204.png?fit=495%2C495&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"495,495\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Self portrait with scowl &amp;#8211; LeMasney Consulting\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Self portrait with scowl &amp;#8211; LeMasney Consulting&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Self portrait with scowl &amp;#8211; LeMasney Consulting&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20100204.png?fit=495%2C495&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-211\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20100204.png?resize=495%2C495&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Self portrait with scowl - LeMasney Consulting\" width=\"495\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Self portrait with scowl &#8211; LeMasney Consulting<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I opened up PhotoBooth on my MBP, and took a quick close up shot of my face in a scowl. I brought it into <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Inkscape\" href=\"https:\/\/inkscape.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\">Inkscape<\/a>, converted the bitmap into a vector with both the edge detect and the threshold methods, then applied different colors to each and overlapped them. I added a background for the highlight, and finally added some plain black lines to emphasize my mouth and eyes, as they were getting a bit lost.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles by Zemanta<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">The Book of Inkscape: A Fine, Rare Pleasure (slumpedoverkeyboarddead.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alistapart.com\/article\/using-svg-for-flexible-scalable-and-fun-backgrounds-part-ii\/\">Using SVG for Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part II<\/a> (alistapart.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">HRLC presents: Using GIMP and Inkscape (johnwlemasney.wordpress.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I opened up PhotoBooth on my MBP, and took a quick close up shot of my face in a scowl. I brought it into Inkscape, converted the bitmap into a vector with both the edge detect and the threshold methods, then applied different colors to each and overlapped them. I added a background for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3654],"tags":[76,335,365,411,2362,717,865,866],"class_list":{"0":"post-210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portfolio","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-gimp","10":"tag-graphics","11":"tag-inkscape","12":"tag-portrait","13":"tag-scalable-vector-graphics","14":"tag-vector-based","15":"tag-vector-graphics","16":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20100204.png?fit=495%2C495&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-3o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":403,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/03\/25\/94-of-365-is-a-portrait-of-sarah-in-inkscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":210,"position":0},"title":"A portrait of Sarah Badawy &#8211; LeMasney Consulting","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-03-25","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey, all. 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