Customer Reviews

Artograph Tracer Junior 10x Tracer Jr. Projector

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I bought this to help me with my christmas decor. I found the pictures that I wanted on the internet and then used the tracer to increase the size from 4 inches to 4 feet and trace the images onto coroplast. I worked very well. You can see the results for your self at my website... www.cereschristmastreelane.com/Coroplast.html

I was surprised that it used a CFL. I thought that this was kinda nice since the heat produced by a CFL is much less than incandescent. But you must remember that the CFL when first turned on is fairly dim and takes a while to get to full brightness. Still, I found that I needed to get the ambient light down to a minimum in order to use this effectively.

I typically do large paintings, I am a portrait artist, and I wanted a projector so I could save some time.
This little guy is absolutly perfect for what I needed. I don't usually trace the entire image, but I used to have to make sketches and find some way to enlarge them, like graphing or try to freehand proportions on huge scales, which meant a lot of editing and fixing in the painting stage... This little tracer has totally cut out that step for me, I can make a sketch and just throw it right up on the wall, then ofcourse the bigger I want it, the farther away I move it and visa versa.

The only downside (if you want to call it that) is the size of the picture it projects. It only enlarges images up to 3.5''X3.5'' but from there you can pretty much get it as big as you want. I solved this by putting a cross through my sketch (or on a transperency over it) and then a cross on the canvas, then when I had to move the picture to get the other sections, I just had to make sure the crosses on the progection and canvas lined up.

This is really great because you just slide the pic under there, turn it on, and there it is. You can even project color images.

I would recomend using in a room where you have a lot of control over the light as well, it's not quite strong enough to see in the day time, so I just do my sketches at night.

Great great great for the price!

I bought this projector to do a mural on my dresser. It was so easy to use. It also projects color, so you could have a little slide show if you wanted. I would recommend this to anyone who is doing a mural. I can't wait to start on my next one!

This was so easy to use and made my son very happy.
I used it to paint a Pokemon mural on his wall.
Initially, I did have to figure out the best way to get it to the level I wanted in order to have it the right height, but once I got the hang of it, the tracing went very quickly. Now, I am trying to figure out what I can do next! Makes a crafty mom, but one with no drawing skills, able to create awesome art....recommended for anyone who wants to spice up a wall (or anything else this can be aimed at!).

Smaller than anticipated. Had to piece together a standard 8.5x11 picture to get it up on the canvas.

If you have a small photo or picture (3 1/2 inches square) that you want to project and enlarge, this is a good inexpensive projector, but if your photo is bigger and you have to move the photo under the projector to get to another area, it is almost impossible to realign everything. If you move the photo and disturb the projector by moving it slightly backward, forward, or to the side, the focus will change. You have to work in a very dark room to get a good image. If you pull the lens out too far to focus, it will fall out on the floor and break, so be careful. It's okay it you just want to project and trace a small area of your photo, but otherwise, it's a lot of trouble to use.

I bought this to help me project line drawings onto a wall before painting a mural. I was able to mess with this product to get it to do what I need but almost not even worth it.

Cons:
-you need to be in a completely dark room for the projection to show
-you can't just place the projector over an image, it has to be propped up on something so that the bottom hovers over the image or it won't show (I can't imagine a child using this!)
-you can only project from a tiny image (like 2x3in) although you can piece together an image in theory, this is impossibly hard because any change in position and you will not be able to line up the new image. This would not be so hard if the darn thing wouldn't have to be rigged up to hover over the image in the`first place.

Pros:
-only affordable projector I could find anywhere

Suggestions:
-they should add adjustable feet to each corner of the base that make it easy to consistently change the angle of the projection while keeping the base hovered over the image.

If anyone had better luck than me and wants to give me tips for better use I'm listening!

I bought this product because I am painting a mural in our nursery. The Tracer Jr. allows you to use your original subject media without the pain of conversion to transparencies or having to by an expensive projector system.

The drawbacks are the restrictive size of the project-able area and that you need the room to be fairly dark to get a clear projection.

I highly recommend this for small projects because of the price, the ease of use, because it takes regular light bulbs instead of expensive specialty bulbs, and an extra bonus is that the kids will be able to play with it when they get older!

This is a great little projector for the price. Works well but tends to get a little hot on papers underneath, could use a little stand to sit on we used an old tile. Grand Children loved it. Given as Christmas present, for use as drawing of book covers and art projects. Worth the money. Julia in NC

This is a good tracer for little projects that are about 11x14- other than that you would have to fix it to make a bigger picture, like in fourths or half.