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VERY cool piece. I really do like the wheat. P
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-------------------- Terry Baird Baird Signs 3484 West Lake Rd. Canandaigua, NY 14424 Posts: 790 | From: Canandaigua, New York | Registered: Dec 2002
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Cool piece Pat! I LOVE dimensional signs when they are more than carved in. -grampa dan
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Very well done. To make the pictures larger you can do the following:
To size them at the suggested max of 500 pixels wide, make them actual size of 6.944" width on your screen, then export them at 72 dpi. I export from Corel with the .jpg slider at around 18 to 20, which cuts the size down but doesn't affect the quality that much. I then check the file size to make sure it's under 60K.
If you're over 60K, you can bump the slider up to 30 or so or drop the size down to about 6" width and then re export at 72 dpi.
Since you've already loaded these on the Letterville server, you'll have to export and re upload them under a different name, perhaps the original name with a "1" on the end. You can then edit your post and put the new picture titles in.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5099 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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To reiterate the process and explain a little further...
The top semi circle is 1" HDU blasted in. The clouds and sun were rounded over with sandpaper - the sun is gilded.
The main area is 1.5" HDU with the letters, board seams and border blasted. The border was also rounded over and gilded. The water was blasted and sanded down to meet the top panel in height.
The leaves were sculpted with Magic Sculpt with 24K gold on the band. The wheat and stems were made by rolling Magic Smooth into long, thin 'snake' strips, cut to size and rolled between fingers to shape. We wet the 'Sculpt' and pressed the grains onto the Dibond - then gilded.
Everything was then mounted to Dibond painted black. I used Magic Smooth for an adhesive.
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