mktitsworth
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So I've decided I'm going to have some Hamilton shirts made at the beginning of next month. I've gone through fabrics and think I've decided, and now I'm thinking about collars.
There's plenty of back and forth about spread and other bits of thing going on with that, but something that I've seen come up multiple times is the question of face shape. There's a link here about which different collars suit which different face shape, but my curiosity was then about how to go about figuring said face shape out and what would look best.
As a scientist, I get these sorts of curious bugs all the time, and since this one is pertinent to some set of purchases I plan to make, I figured this might be a good time to do so. I also figured I'd share here, since it was pretty simple to do and this HOWTO might be useful for other folks around here. I've wrapped it in a
tag for those who are interested so as not to drive off those only interested in the end result because I really would like some feedback on collar spreads. Thanks!
Anyhow, getting to it...
The first thing to do was to pic a fit with two things: A) a good, straight on angle at my head, and B) a mostly full body shot that shows the v of the lapel area in good contrast. Also, it was definitely nice to work with larger images. Going with what I had immediately on hand, I chose this:
Next, it was time to grab GIMP again. This is probably a good time to say: I'm not a graphics guy. I use GIMP for image analysis of things like nuclear emulsion chamber photo plates and I'm decent with the filters I need, but beyond that I'm pretty rudimentary. To whit, if one of the graphics guys here wants to take this and turn it into something more expansive, that would be awesome.
The first thing you do after opening the pic is add a new layer. This is where you'll work. The next thing to do was to mark the outline of my face, hair, neck, shoulders, and the v of the jacket. This is pretty easy to do in gimp. You take the pencil or paintbrush tool pick your starting spot, and then click shift while tracing the outline. Worked like a champ. I also did one where I did not grab the v so that I can play with lapel roll lengths later on, but that's irrelevant at the moment. Anyway, after doing all of that I got this:
That looked a bit stark, so I threw in some color based upon the original image. For each piece I just used the dropper tool to grab the color from that point in the original image and then used the bucket fill to add color. Simple stuff. That got me this which really was the starting point:
From here I could start playing with different collar heights and spreads. Once again, the shift-pencil did the job. It was necessary to first pick the height of the collar, so, for my test, I got these three:
The color for the shirt area was done in the same way as the others. Personally, I like the height of the second collar out of all of these. From there it was time to construct collars. This was still done with the same shift-pencil bit. I did six different spreads for each collar. As an example, here are some of the spreads for collar two:
Personally, I think the two in the middle line look the best, but part of the reason for doing this was to get the SF opinion on that. So what do you guys think?
Also, I was rather surprised. I thought I had a longer jaw line, but apparently it's pretty square and chiseled.
There's plenty of back and forth about spread and other bits of thing going on with that, but something that I've seen come up multiple times is the question of face shape. There's a link here about which different collars suit which different face shape, but my curiosity was then about how to go about figuring said face shape out and what would look best.
As a scientist, I get these sorts of curious bugs all the time, and since this one is pertinent to some set of purchases I plan to make, I figured this might be a good time to do so. I also figured I'd share here, since it was pretty simple to do and this HOWTO might be useful for other folks around here. I've wrapped it in a
Anyhow, getting to it...
The first thing to do was to pic a fit with two things: A) a good, straight on angle at my head, and B) a mostly full body shot that shows the v of the lapel area in good contrast. Also, it was definitely nice to work with larger images. Going with what I had immediately on hand, I chose this:
Next, it was time to grab GIMP again. This is probably a good time to say: I'm not a graphics guy. I use GIMP for image analysis of things like nuclear emulsion chamber photo plates and I'm decent with the filters I need, but beyond that I'm pretty rudimentary. To whit, if one of the graphics guys here wants to take this and turn it into something more expansive, that would be awesome.
The first thing you do after opening the pic is add a new layer. This is where you'll work. The next thing to do was to mark the outline of my face, hair, neck, shoulders, and the v of the jacket. This is pretty easy to do in gimp. You take the pencil or paintbrush tool pick your starting spot, and then click shift while tracing the outline. Worked like a champ. I also did one where I did not grab the v so that I can play with lapel roll lengths later on, but that's irrelevant at the moment. Anyway, after doing all of that I got this:
That looked a bit stark, so I threw in some color based upon the original image. For each piece I just used the dropper tool to grab the color from that point in the original image and then used the bucket fill to add color. Simple stuff. That got me this which really was the starting point:
From here I could start playing with different collar heights and spreads. Once again, the shift-pencil did the job. It was necessary to first pick the height of the collar, so, for my test, I got these three:
The color for the shirt area was done in the same way as the others. Personally, I like the height of the second collar out of all of these. From there it was time to construct collars. This was still done with the same shift-pencil bit. I did six different spreads for each collar. As an example, here are some of the spreads for collar two:
Personally, I think the two in the middle line look the best, but part of the reason for doing this was to get the SF opinion on that. So what do you guys think?
Also, I was rather surprised. I thought I had a longer jaw line, but apparently it's pretty square and chiseled.
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