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[ewt]

Okay, E-Foam will cut foam to size for me... but it still isn't cheap. Buying a block is cheaper, but something with the wedge shape would also be quite good really, and that's a little more money - getting on for £50 if I want something that will definitely be firm enough. Since I sleep in three different places fairly regularly and I am not carrying one of these around with me, that means it's going to be rather expensive to have things made.

Definitely time to start cruising for chucked-out sofas that haven't been rained on yet and nicking the cushions to make into my own thing, yes oh yes.

I've decided I will try out Etsy for some of my things; a lot of people who have far more experience than I have in making stuff and selling it are quite positive about it.

Need a good free image processing wossname for Mac. Pointers?

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[weatherpixie.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember my mother cutting foam into shapes when replacing sofa cushions.

She used one of those electric carving knife thingies...

[bob]

We are waiting for a new sofa and havent decided what to do with the old one yet. I think its knackered enough that if you wanted to just steal the cushions that would be good but dont hold me to that and indeed it might still be while till our new sofa turns up.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Things you can use to cut foam into a wedge shape:
-Electric carving knife
-Electric saw
-Knife + a lot of patience

[sci.livejournal.com]

I think someone in the next road had a load of sofa cushions sitting in front of their house, and I don't think it's rained since I noticed them.
Text me if you'd like me to pick them up?

[mubeimmik.livejournal.com]

I hoped Google's Picasa would work on Mac but it looks like just Linux and Windows... Maybe try GIMP.

P.S. Those CD pendants are CDs someone put in the microwave ;)

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

I thought a microwave might be something to do with it...

Is it bad for the microwave?

[mubeimmik.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if it is or not, I've never been brave enough to try it!

[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

Image processing of what sort? I use inkscape for vector graphics, the gimp for photoshop-type things and imagemagick for batch image-processing type actions (eg rescaling a lot of things at once): all are free, do what I want pretty well and are available for mac but I haven't done anything with imagemagick since I got the mac so I can't verify that it works OK. (If you want to do anything with 3D images it might also be worth having a look at blender, which does this as one of its rather scary number of features - it's actually an animation tool. And is free. And available for mac. :)