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Well folks i finally can post images now let me know if this works!! (still workin on the site though!) ..... This is a cruiser i lettered for a new k-9 unit here in sharpsville!! I used the imagecut feature in signlab to create the picture of the dog using bandwidths like in a color tv! Let me know what you think!
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Shrink the size of the picture down to about 2" - then export as a JPG with 75 dpi. Images will load quicker that way.
Good luck...
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Nice work Ryan but I will ask this one thing. I noticed in the K 9 there was some bubbles. Don't get me wrong but for such a small application...How come!!!! Seeing the background and knowing that it is the cold season,you must have done it outdoors... You used metalic gold for the main lettering and it's one of the softest vinyl's on the market... Next project take a heat gun to the vinyl before you apply and give it a good blast of heat and also the surface you are going to apply on then peel the background paper and lay on the surface...Work from left to right top to bottom with a soft card or roller... This time of year will not get all the air pockets out as you need the warm sun to do this.... I know you will look at this message and say who are you but believe me from past experience this way is the best....
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Hey guys those werrent bubbles ... the car was just washed!!!!!! I'd tear off the graphic and shoot myself if those were bubbles !!!!! Oh no !!!!
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Ryan, Casmate Pro SE has the same thing, but they call it "Photo Cut". I use it primarily for realty agent's mugs. How did you do the fade on the blue side-stripe?? Nice job, all around.
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Gotta say I laughed loads at the bubble thing, he was tryig to say it in as nice away as he could!! I know here how waterdroplets hang in the cold weather!
Tell us about the bandwidths....what do you mean all vinyl?...printed?? or what.
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Ok Ryan I will have to say that I am sorry about the comment as I guess I need glasses.. It is nice work and I like to know about the image affect on the dog!!! You say that its not edge work but all vinyl! Kick me in the ass for the comment and because you live to far away I kick myself for you...I tried to but kept falling down.
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That's what I ALWAYS tell 'em.............WATER drops! Don't WORRY! They'll evaporate........honest! :^)
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Image-cut/Photo-Cut....I'd like to know more about it. Can you get into more detail in describibg how to do it and what it is and show a closed detail photo? Thanks.
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Ok Guys here goes! Image cut is a feature in signlab which cuts a photo out of thin bandwidths. I know casmate has this feature also because i used to use it for the company i previously worked for I believe you can do this in corel also using the woodcut feature (i'm still workin on how to do it in corel!). What you have to do first is thake a photo convert it to black and white... Then if you are putting the image on a black background using white vinyl .. you must convert the image to a negative to get the black to show up as the majority color. Then you just go to the image cut feature in signlab... it will ask you how many bandwidths you want to put on the photo ... this determines the resolution. Usually i make sure that i dont have to weed strips which are smaller than 1/8". So you can just keep playing with it until you get the amount of strips needed to to equal this amount. You can put the image in a circle if you want by laying a circle over the image where need be .. this will create an almost vignette or if you make the photo itself a vignette it will cut it to look like one! Youre ready to plot after this .... make sure your blade is set deep for easy weedin' Caus there's a lot to do ... (i usually set my summa at 155 grams and have the blade set in the handle in the neutral position) Well then all you have to do is weedit tapeit and sticker on . My plotter can cut this so that all i have to do is grab a corner and pull! if yours isnt as accurate you can just pick the lines out a couple at a time by just pulling up the edge of each line , but make sure you skip the lines in between!
Well as mikey said "Try it , youll like it"
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