I am looking for a site where there are drawings of Vehicles. I am about to make signs on 4 cars and to have a drawing to measure the right size of each sign would be helpful. I have seen it before but cant find it know. Can anyone point me in the right direction
Posted by stein Saether (Member # 430) on :
Found vectorstock.com
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
At one time I'd get the drawing and every year they'd have a fee for the new ones. I went back to just taking a photo of the vehicle and measuring a door or some part of the truck and bringing the photo into my graphics program. I'd draw a rectangle where I had done the measurement and then resize it to what I measured and resize the photo with it. Having a full size photo makes the designing much easier.
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
Rick, that's exactly what I do. I used to buy the vector programs and then just started taking a photo. If you take the photo from a distance, there will be less distortion, whether blown up on your screen or by zoom on your camera.
Posted by Don Hulsey (Member # 128) on :
I bought a magnetic 3' tape at Home Depot. Most vehicles I can stick it to the side and take a picture. I do the same as Rick with my measurement right there on the vehicle.
Posted by Alicia B. Jennings (Member # 1272) on :
I do the same as Rick. People like it when they see the lettering on their own vehicle. The only bad thing is that on large or long vehicles, there is a curve from the lens of the camera. So kinsda have to make adjustments for the curve. I think that's why some people don't photograph well. The head shape gets curved.
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
Don, I have some magnetic sign strips glued to the back of a yardstick to use on vehicles that are made out of steel. They are getting fewer.
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
The lens distortion on vehicles is lessened by taking the shot at a distance. It's a good idea to have a length, not just of a door but height between easily identifiable objects on a vehicle and a rather long length, perhaps between front and rear turn signal lamps. You can then correct the distortion in your graphics package. CorelDraw allows editing of perspective and lens barreling.
Alicia, you just told me why my photos come out bad. It's not that I'm unphotogenic--the head shape is getting curved! I've also found out that just like vehicles, I look better in photos taken from a distance--a quarter mile is usually sufficient for photos of me.
Posted by stein Saether (Member # 430) on :
I usually do that, taping a meter measure on the car and take photos, for this job the cars are 120 km away, behind a snowy and ice mountain, so I asked the customer to take photos. So he did, from strange angels, in low light and without a measure . The drawings I have found online seems to be badly organized, hardly any mentioning of model year, different name for same car etc etc. I do hope it ends well
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Posted by stein Saether (Member # 430) on :
I am very pleased by the good advice and kind response I got here. I used to read and post on this site every day, its been a while, but now I come Home again.
[ March 06, 2021, 05:00 AM: Message edited by: stein Saether ]
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
They always manage to take them from an angle in poor lighting. Perhaps you can ask them to take more pictures straight on.
Perhaps you can also ask them to give you a measurement. You might ask for the measurement after you get the photo because you could mark on the photo a section to measure. Make sure it's a section you can see clearly and one that they won't get confused trying to measure.
You can let them know it will save them money to get that information to you because you won't have to spend all day driving there and back to get some measurements.
Posted by stein Saether (Member # 430) on :
I told them several times. Maybe I dont underline it enough ?
I worked something out from a combination of those photos, ads from car dealers, information from gov vehicles registration database and some qualified guessing combined with a tolerance margin.
We will se how that goes, the proof is in ...
Posted by Gary Boros (Member # 8487) on :
Stein, what vehicles do you need...maybe I can help you.
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