I forgot to post this to chat.
Mention was made over on Lace of a "lace" CD produced by Alan and Barry for
cardmakers and scapbookers, and how good it looked. I've got it and from a
technical point of view and a lacemaker's point of view I think it's rubbish
(purely my own opinion). So I'm raffling it (or as I put it on Lace "I
decided to unload it on one of you").
Seems these two bought a copy of a book (can't remember which) from the UK
Lace Guild and then got permission from the Guild to make this CD. Only
thing is, they not only acknowledge that the Lace Guild gave them permission
to use the images, but are now selling it on their web site as a "Lace
Guild" CD. I've been in touch with the Guild and they're going to stop that.
Contrary to the impression they give on their web site, it isn't a Lace
Guild publication, it's being sold by and for the profit of Alan and Barry,
they just had permission from the Guild to use the images - the Lace Guild
is getting something out of it, but I don't know what.
It's a very simple program of the type that was around for Windows back in
the 80s. You choose the image you want in negative (black on white), top
right,. Below that you decide on the size, colour of "lace", colour of
background and whether you want one image or multiple on the page, which
results in an impression of what it will look like, but no detail because of
the size on screen, then you print.
The lace images have been converted to black and white (not greyscale) bmp
format, which means they're flat and have lost their detail - more like a
paper doily than a piece of lace. There are videos on the disk which look as
if they've been made with a handheld camcorder in someone's living room -
Introduction, projects video and project gallery. There's also half an A4
page of instructions on how to use it.
Only use I found for the program was to put my own black and white line
drawings in it to quickly change the colour, background and size. Don't do
that often and it's no longer on my computer. For my cardmaking, I prefer to
use lace images from out-of-copyright books from the digital archive site
and do what I want with them so they still look like lace.
So far only 8 people have entered the raffle (shows what a good job of
rubbishing it I've done - I've been told I forgot to say how wonderful it
is!), but if anyone else wants to enter, please email me privately be
midnight GMT tomorrow, Friday 8th September. I draw the winner Saturday
morning.
Apparently cardmakers love it. As a cardmaker AND lacemaker, I don't. I have
other papercrafting CDs which I think are much better. Someone else might
like it very much - don't see the point of saying it's wonderful only to
have the raffle winner disappointed.
For those new to Arachne raffles, it's free to enter, I send anywhere in the
world and I pay all expenses.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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