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Patterns By Download!
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Fast!
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- Convenient! Download Today --- And Be Carving Tonight! Designs Online Since 1997! Multi-Purpose Patterns & Designs! -- Used For So Very Many Different Crafts! And Yes Folks! -- Our Patterns & Designs Are Great For Wood Burning! Wood Carving -- Wood Burning -- Wood Working -- Wood Painting -- Gunstock Carving -- Glass Etching -- Leather Work Laser Carving -- Metal Work -- Scrimshaw -- Power Carving -- Intarsia -- Scroll Sawing -- Engraving -- Paper Cutting CNC Applications -- Plasma Cutting -- Stained Glass -- Gourd Carving -- Egg Carving -- And Many Many More! |
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Working With Your Patterns
First lets start by defining exactly what our
patterns are. You may not know it but you are viewing .jpg images right now, the
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As an example the image to the left is a .jpg image. |
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| Digital Patterns delivered right to your
computer by Download! Fast - Easy and Convenient! New to Computers and the Web?... What Is Downloading?
What Our Patterns Are Not: Patterns are not Pre-Printed on Paper. Patterns are
not Plans! Patterns are not Vector Format images.
1. How do I view and print my patterns? |
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| The most basic way to view and print your patterns is
by using your Web Browser. Once you have Downloaded and Opened your packages you will have
a file filled with a whole bunch of image files, these are your patterns. You can use your
Browser right on your computer (you don't connect to the web) to open your patterns.
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| Basic Instructions for opening your patterns
in your Web Browser Click here for a printable version of these instructions |
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| Netscape Browser A. Open Netscape B. On 'Dial-up Connection' select Cancel C. Select 'File' on menu bar D. Select 'Open Page' this will open a window. E. Select 'Choose File' on 'Open Page' window F. In the window that says 'Look In' Find your patterns file G. Select 'Open' H. Click on your patterns file folder, select 'Open' I. In window that says 'Files of types' select "All Files" J. Pick one image and click, select 'Open' K. On 'Open Page' windows select 'Open' L. Turn on your printer. M. Select 'File' N. Select 'Print' |
MS Internet Explorer A. Open Explorer B. On 'Dial-up Connection' select 'Work Offline' C. Select 'File' on menu bar D. Select 'Open', this will open a window E. In the window that says 'Open' select 'Browse' F. In the window that says 'Look In' find your patterns file G. Click on your patterns folder, select 'Open' H. In the window that says 'Files of type' select 'All Files' I. Pick one image and click, select 'Open' J. On the window that says 'Open" click 'OK' K. Turn on your printer L. Select 'File' M. Select 'Print' |
| On many Windows systems you can right hand click on a pattern file and select "Open", or double left hand click, and it will automatically open your Web Browser and load the image/pattern in your browser. | |
2. How come when I print my patterns only a portion of the pattern prints? |
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Many of our patterns are sized extra large to give you plenty of pattern to work with, for the most part these larger patterns are not designed to print on a single 8.5" x 11" piece of paper. This large size has many advantages, many folks will need a larger pattern for a larger project, and perhaps use, say, 4 sheets of paper to print one single pattern. Then tape the sheets together to form one larger pattern ready for tracing. The larger patterns are much more versatile then smaller images could ever be. It is always much easier and the results much clearer and detail crisper to reduce the size of a large pattern then it is to enlarge the size of a small pattern. |
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The eagle pattern on the left is typical of one of our larger patterns. If you were able to print it straight from the package and paper size and the printer were large enough it would measure roughly 10"x 16" |
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Without re-sizing the image you can print most of this
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Or, again without re-sizing the image you could use 4 sheets. |
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2a. What's all this about "re-sizing" the pattern, how do I do this? At this point we must discuss....Image Editing Programs.
Folks that have and use Image Editing Programs simply re-size our patterns to suite their needs, whether it be to make larger, smaller, mirror, flip, rotate, cut the pattern up into separate pieces and then rearrange the pieces to form a completely new pattern. Re-sizing is a very simple and basic function of an Image Editing Program.
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Paint Shop Pro An excellent Image Editing Program! Easy to learn and use and very reasonably priced. Very powerful and large assortment of tools. They also offer free downloads of the program to try out! Adobe Photo Deluxe Another good Image Editing Program. Very easy to learn and use, not nearly as powerful as Paint Shop Pro, but a good "beginner" type of program. It is very often given away free many times with your printer software (check the CD it may be right there!). Adobe Photoshop The "GranDaddy" of Image Editing Programs. Very powerful and very expensive! Recommended for advanced users or for folks who really want the very best when it comes to Image Editing Programs. |
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| Also though not true Image Editing Programs,
and far from ideal some of these types of programs may work as well. |
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| Greeting Card making type of Programs Brochure Making Programs Banner Making Programs Desktop Publishing Programs Microsoft Publisher Word Processing Programs Microsoft Word Microsoft Paint
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Lets look at just a few basic things you can do with our patterns
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Re-size the example eagle pattern, now it will print on a single 8.5"x11" sheet of paper. | |
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Mirror or flip the eagle to face the opposite way. | |
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Combine right and left facing to form a new pattern. | |
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Need a close-up of just the head no problem using a Image Editing Program, and yet another new pattern is formed. | |
| The eagle serves as an example only, if you look through our patterns you will see many that would be much more suitable for the mirroring, flipping and combining. Lets take two different patterns and put them together to form a completely new pattern. |
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Using these two patterns. |
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To form one large and new pattern! Use you imagination! There are just so many possibilities in what you can come up with! |
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| We hope this tutorial has served to give
a brief overview as to what our patterns are, and some of the things that you can do with them. We always welcome your feedback and questions, if you have an area that you would like to see discussed please drop us a note! |
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