(copyright 2011 - Louise Godfrey - All rights reserved)
My Grandma, Elsa M. Carlson
(created for peyote stitch)
One afternoon, I got out the scanner and thought it would be interesting to take some of the vintage family photos and old postcards and put them on my computer to "play" with them. Using the bead graphing software I had purchased (I am looking for one now that is easier to manipulate and has better customer support than BeadCreator), I downloaded my grandma's photo from the 1920's and was astounded at what came up.
The graph above, shows exactly what the photo would look like as a bead mural. Getting excited, I also downloaded a photo of my uncle, Gus Gustofson, who was a drummer for Woody Herman, Les Brown and many other Swing and Jazz greats. This photo was taken during the Korean war....
This was created for a loom.
"Uncle Gus" - copyright 2011 - Louise Godfrey - All rights reserved)
It got me to thinking about what great and definitely unique presents you could make for special events, such as weddings and birthdays or for a very intimate, special gift. But that wasn't all...
I realized photos of all kinds of thing could become a bead graph! Here is one that I took of the Eiffel Tower at "The Paris" in Las Vegas.
The Paris (copyright 2011 - Louise Godfrey - All rights reserved)
This one I played with on PhotoShop first to get just the right effects in color and saturation before downloading it to the bead graph software.....and again with "Painted Desert" , below, a photo of the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach in Northern Nevada.
Lake Lahontan (copyright 2011 - Louise Godfrey - All rights reserved)
The options are endless...all the way from creating something in a size 15 bead for a Christmas or window ornament to huge murals!
If you are a bead artist that has a favorite bead graphing software, let me know. I'm dying to try one that is recommended by another fellow artist instead of just going by the advertising out there.
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