sheryl said:Ceramic is mucho better!

Rut ro!

We can sure do that. Do you have a 32x32 graphic that you think would work well for this badge?

Not now but I'll think about it. Thanks!

Salvia elegans, if you think it's OK. If not, no problem

The only thing is I wish it wasn't on a black background. If it was a white background, that would be perfect. The problem with the black is it would make the microbadge into a big black box.

I tried this blue salvia.

I could probably do a white background on janets if I had the full size photo to start with.

I thought the black might be too much too Dave, but it seems to work with the daisy!

I made a full size one for you to work with Jay, it was a little above the 1000 pixels so I resized it.

I have to head to the hospital in a little bit, but will work on it this afternoon. I should be able to have it posted this evening sometime.

Ok here are three version I came up with.

Love the blue background!

Salvia badge is created!

http://garden.org/special/badg...

I used the blue background. If you all want it changed again, I can do it.

Lol, fine with me. Thanks Jay for the work, I want to know what programme you used. ;)

I had resized all three to see what they look like, may as well post them.. I didn't take my watermark off!

You're right, Hetty, the blue looks good. Nice badge.

I agree, the blue looks nice and we can see the flower is Salvia.

I use GIMP. It's a free photo editor. I really don't know very much about photo editing but when there is something I want to do, I can look up tutorials. Here is the tutorial on how I did this. http://www.photo-info.co.nz/ar...
The only thing I did different is used the bucket fill tool to add color, between where the instrutions say ( "Ctrl + k" to clear ) and ("Ctrl + Shift + A" to unselect.)

Thanks!

I was still thinking about what to start with and what tool to use. It would have taken me at least months!

Thanks Jay, I came across GIMP when looking for a free programme, in the end I downloaded Paint.NET which looks very good. I have difficulty drawing freehand around images, they have a link to a forum but I couldn't find anything about removing and filling backgrounds. I'll try GIMP.

http://download.cnet.com/Paint...

Just removing the background like I did for this is really very easy, but time consuming. The higher the resolution of the photo the better. Sometimes working with this photo I had it enlarged to where just three pixels was about 1/2 across. At that magnification it can be hard to tell where the background ends and subject begins unless you have a high res photo.