Which pattern making program?

[Richard Grover]

I have been scrolling for several years (new to the Village).  I am interested in now starting to make my own patterns, mostly portrait from photos.  I have tried "Rapid Resizer" and "Coyote Stencil" results were a modest OK.  I hear a lot about GIMP and Inkscape.  What do you pattern designers use and why.  I really don't want to dabble in two programs, I would rather learn one and go with it.  It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks, so one trick at a time is all I can handle.

[jollyred]

There are tutorials in the resources area of this forum for both Inkscape and Gimp.  They will get you going.  As far as portrait style patterns from photos, Inkscape will not work as well as Gimp. 

[Richard Grover]

OK thank you, that is good to know.

[whitewolf710]

if you can find an old copy of adobe cs which is what i use and am currently using it has surprising results in a short time

[JustDucky]

I would like to start to make my own patterns, however I have a chromebook and Inkscape is not supported.  Any ideas?

 

[Dan]

Richard, I agree with going with GIMP. If you follow Travis's tutorial it's pretty easy to get a good start. It does involve a little effort to get a good pattern, but after doing a few you should be able to remember the steps and knock them out faster. Be sure to start with a high-quality photo to get the best results.

[jerrye]

For simple conversion of photos to patterns, I find Cute Cutter to be very good. Simple, easy, quick, effective. https://cutecutter.com/

[Wile E Coyote]

I use a program called Create It and can be found by going to  craftingtech.online. It is not a free program, but what you make on your first pattern/portrait it will or could pay for a full year of use. I do portraits of people and works great. I used to spend 10-20 hours making a portrait of a  person now normally in less than an hour depending on how much detail the customer wants. It will also check for fallouts. Here are a couple of pictures that I made for some fellow scrollers on another site.

Edited February 19, 2021 by Wile E Coyote
wording was under the pictures

[Rockytime]

Sounds interesting. I'll look into it.