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Tutorial: Custom Pumpkin Carving Templates with Photoshop and Illustrator

furball Have you ever seen those really cool pumpkin carvings that look like photographs?  Yeah, me too.  I wondered to myself, aloud, while alone in my office, “How do they do that?”  It came to me that, of course, they must first start with a photograph.  I reasoned from there that, naturally, they must convert the photo into a two tone image, as the pumpkin carving will be composed of only two “colors” (either pumpkin or not pumpkin).  Well, from there, I knew just what to do.  Read on, and so will you!

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