I wanted a simple address label and decided to try to make our own silhouettes to use as motifs. Here’s how they turned out:

I am a photography & graphic arts dummy, and of course my cheap@$$ wanted to DIY this within my usual budget of zero dollars. The following are my ghetto instructions on creating the digi-silhouettes:
1. Set up the ’studio’ by a bright window on a sunny day:

2. Get your camera ready:

3. Sit your subject down and snap away (here’s the original pic of da hubs):
4. Then, we edit - I chose Picnik to show you since it’s available freely to everyone, but most photo editing software can do these steps. First, crop and resize the photo as desired under the ’Edit’ tab (make sure you crop out all areas not covered by the tissue paper):

5. Convert the image using the black and white effect under the ’Create’ tab:


6. Return to the ’Edit’ tab and adjust the exposure. Turn down the exposure and up the contrast until you get a clearly defined silhouette and the background becomes white with indistinguishable edges:

7. Save the photo and you’ve got your very own digi-silhouette!

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