Hi everyone!
I have read some blogposts from about 6 years ago, where the topic of importing jpeg/png/etc…-files as sort of a background to be able to trace them in Seamly2D was discussed. Has there been any progress? Is there a way to do this by now? I’ve also read about the Ghost-it software but I feel like this solution isn’t quite the best.
Thanks in advance! Mascha
Hi @Mascha
Yes, there has been some progress in this area. It’s been slow going, and if you read some of the other posts on there, it was almost ready to be uploaded, however, there was an unforseen problem that has delayed it by a few weeks.
I have my fingers crossed that it will happen really soon now 
Hi Mascha…
I’m working on adding images as we speak. I just about had the feature ready to go a few weeks ago when I had a catastrophic hard drive failure and lost the whole kit and kabuddle. 
On the bright side having to start the feature over from scratch allowed me to rethink things, and in the process I’m making a lot of improvements.
Optimistically I should have the feature ready to go in a week or two.
How has this gone? I have a dozen patterns I drafted, and would like to digitize them so I can start creating multiple sizes.
Second, am I understanding correctly that once I have the pattern drafted as I want, I just create a new draft block, change the measurements in Seamly me, and it will automatically craft the new sizes into the pattern? Am I missing something?
thanks everyone!
We now have an image tool where you can load up an image and use it to draft over, using actual measurements in the measurements file. It works well and, if you put in formulas for the curves and lengths, that either reference a measurement or something that went before, it should resize just fine.
Yes, this is correct, if your pattern uses the references mentioned before.
Perfect! Thank you! I will update my software right away, and try this.
ok, updated, and I uploaded a piece in .jpeg format. I’m confused now on how I trace or draft over it? Do i still need to enter measurements into seamlyMe?
Yeas you do. Seamly2D won’t trace the image for you. The image will guide you to get the right curves etc. But you still need to use formuals and measurements so the pattern is well constructed. I hope this help a bit.
You can use the picture/SVG as an underlining. First you have to paste over that picture “your” pattern and make formulars refering to that. If you are working welle- you can only change the measurements in jour measurement file and the pattern will resize to your measurements. I think the main problems with that are - you don’t have any markers for the hights of the measurements in the original pattern.
If you’re taking a picture of a pattern piece you can place a square piece of paper of a now size in the picture or draw a square on the pattern piece. You can then scale the image to real size through trial and error. I would draft up in a block a 120x120 mm square you can then use as a reference to scale the square in the image to. Then you add another draft block, move the basepoint to some point over the image, and then start drafting i.e. tracing around the image pattern piece.
Thats not what i mean. in seamly you have your measurements on a distace vertically to a reference line (fpr example Waist). If yu have a pattern - there are no marks where for example the waistline is - and on whitch distance fom there the other measurements are taken. In komplex pattern you have to guess where these hight Lines are. So if you are taken a Pattern fron (examle) size 44 and you have a wearer with big Bust and much higher size - i think it will be interesting to resize that to this person.
For the Referense you can add a 10X10 cm square to the pattern.
I’d suggest that you find the size that the pattern was created in and create a measurement file of that size. Then you can recreate/copy the pattern using whichever measurements you can identify until you have something that resembles that patter.
Once you have that pattern copied, then you can create a measurement file to the size that you require and load that into the pattern and pray that it will resize nicely.
However, I can only advocate learning a bit about pattern making, creating your own basic set of master patterns and draft your own pattern which will be uniquely yours.