Michigan_Caltech

October 30th, 2016 at 11:06 AM ^

Thanks everyone for the kind words. I really am not an expert pumpkin carver. This is the first time I attempted anything like this. It's really not that hard. Follow the instructions in this article.

http://www.seriouseats.com/2013/10/how-to-carve-any-photograph-into-a-p…

The key is to find the picture you want to carve, convert it to greyscale (with no isolated black regions) (you may want to play with the contrast and brightness), carve out completely the whitest regions, leave completely intact the blackest regions, and in the grey regions take off the skin of the pumpkin with an exact knife and partially scrape away the shell of the pumpkin. This gives your pumpkin the greyscale effect when lit.