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Here is a couple pictures of a job I did yesterday. I did the logo design for the customer, as well as a 4'x8' aluminum sign for his warehouse and two pickups. I used premium oracal vinyl and a blue to white gradient from K&R rainbow (high performance as well). Let me know what you think
Forgot to mention, 'Hagans' is modified Zak by Dan Antonelli. In retrospect, I think the gray that was used as the shadowed part of Hagans would have looked a bit better if it was a lighter shade. Oh well.
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I think that shade of grey is working fine from seeing the photos anyway. I've been impressed with the look of prismatic fonts, & read of your desire to use them on other posts. I've never gotten much of anything happening yet design-wise with them, but I'd say yours is looking great!
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Very nice! I think the gray looks perfect in that shade; enough contrast with the truck to make it pop out. Very nice work! What layout program do you use? (Just wondering; I'm in Corel Draw/Illustrator) How do you like Oracal?
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Alan, I do all my design work in Corel Draw. Even when I am designing full color business cards, I do my layout in corel, then export each piece seperately and bring it into photoshop to do the effects. I really like oracal, good price and have never had any problems with it. i also really like how the white vinyl has a blue liner paper so it is easier to weed and see what you are doing..
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John, It was all layered, with the black going down first, then the medium gray, then the white highlights on top of it. Black was the main piece, and everything else fit right on it, like the white tire detail and the red bar and blue lettering. It makes application much easier when you have at least a thin outline of the same color around everything, so you can line it up and layer it easily..
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Great design. I also layer vinyls this way, although I have been having problems with air bubbles. Seems the more layers I have the more air bubbles I have. Do you have this problem? Any suggestions...
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I layer all the vinyl on the vehicle itself. I have put it together at my place before then applied it as one piece, but because of all the layers, the squeegee isn't flush with all parts of the vinyl at the same time, leaving bubbles. I have been using clear application tape, and once the main piece is down, I just eyeball it to line everything up through the clear tape and stick it down.
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I thought that was the problem...layering before I applied to surface. Was just wondering if you had experienced that problem also. Thanks for the reply, I will try layering on the vehicle and see if I can do any better. Thanks again.
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You can also "trap" or "knock out" the colors where they overlap, basically eliminating layers of vinyl and the bubbles along with it.
I sell quite a bit of read-to-apply graphics and I "knock-out" all the layers like that so I can send it all as one piece without the bubbles.
I built a 30"x52" light table with a glass top that I can use for registering the vinyls, the whole setup cost me about $30 I think. The ease of registration plus a smooth surface for applying transfer tape without bubbles over knife cuts has more than paid for it.
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Great job there Tyler. Good use of the font too.
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