My Vinyl Works Decals/Lettering ect.
09-26-2012, 11:40 PM
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Sorry but at this point and time my hands are tied here. Please read my first post of this thread.
09-26-2012, 11:53 PM
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Oh I have others as well sitting around here, CGI K&N , and others but never put them on Morticia. You would think I'd have her covered in decals since I can make my own at anytime.
Got these 2 at the ready to cut anytime , just resize and send to the plotter to cut.
The top 2 are jpegs the bottom 2 are converted to vectors, a little touch up on the red text and they both are cuttable files for me.
Keep in mind you cannot use and sell copyrighted material, as said this is just my Personal Hobby and am just practicing to learn my FlexiSIGN software better.
NONE of these are for sale to anyone.
The nice thing for me is I can cut to fit the area I want to place the decal. Instead of Finding a place the decal would fit.
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09-27-2012, 02:38 AM
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Info on Vectorizing a jpeg image
A little info on Vectorizing an image, a jpeg image from the web, or someone has sent.
Just a quick brief pictorial on cleaning up an image to make it Cut Ready.
Sometimes depending on the image, a few clicks is all it takes to be Cut Ready, more often than not I have to spend alot of time Cleaning up the vectorized version after those first few initial clicks in the software.
Here you see a close up of the lower already Vectorized image of the I and the V.
And here it is in "Wire Frame" mode.
In these two you can clearly see the jagged lines that Should be Straight, and you can see little circles and such in the letters themselves.
All those Must be Corrected/deleted, or when I send the file to the plotter to be cut, it will cut every detail/imperfection you see.
Here you can see I cleaned up the I, and the V is still no where near ready to be cut.
Side by side monitor view, right image sure Looks nice, and is a Large jpeg File, but as shown, looks can be Deceiving.
Here in "Wire Frame Mode" I have now cleaned up Half of the V, if left as is, it would Cut half nice then cut the other half with all it's defects.
Here the V is all cleaned up, and I pulled down my Path Tools pallet so you could see the selection of vector path tools I need to use to clean up stuff to help make a cut ready file. Other Tools are used as well.
Same image here just switched off wire frame mode to see in the color I will cut if I missed anything. Looks clean and ready.
Here you can see I Moved the file over some to start working on the next part of the file, letter, graphic whatever it contains or you added must be zoomed in on and made Sure it's cleaned up and Cut Ready. Otherwise the Plotter with just follow every imperfection you left and thats Not good.
It takes Time to clean these up and save a Cut Ready File. But once saved, I can open the file and size it to any size i'd like and cut it. Edit it, change colors whatever I want really.
Alot more to it and alot depends on the image you start with.
Then there is the creating your own file from scratch, and cutting them.
I'm having some fun sitting here Learning and Perfecting my skills.
Just a quick brief pictorial on cleaning up an image to make it Cut Ready.
Sometimes depending on the image, a few clicks is all it takes to be Cut Ready, more often than not I have to spend alot of time Cleaning up the vectorized version after those first few initial clicks in the software.
Here you see a close up of the lower already Vectorized image of the I and the V.
And here it is in "Wire Frame" mode.
In these two you can clearly see the jagged lines that Should be Straight, and you can see little circles and such in the letters themselves.
All those Must be Corrected/deleted, or when I send the file to the plotter to be cut, it will cut every detail/imperfection you see.
Here you can see I cleaned up the I, and the V is still no where near ready to be cut.
Side by side monitor view, right image sure Looks nice, and is a Large jpeg File, but as shown, looks can be Deceiving.
Here in "Wire Frame Mode" I have now cleaned up Half of the V, if left as is, it would Cut half nice then cut the other half with all it's defects.
Here the V is all cleaned up, and I pulled down my Path Tools pallet so you could see the selection of vector path tools I need to use to clean up stuff to help make a cut ready file. Other Tools are used as well.
Same image here just switched off wire frame mode to see in the color I will cut if I missed anything. Looks clean and ready.
Here you can see I Moved the file over some to start working on the next part of the file, letter, graphic whatever it contains or you added must be zoomed in on and made Sure it's cleaned up and Cut Ready. Otherwise the Plotter with just follow every imperfection you left and thats Not good.
It takes Time to clean these up and save a Cut Ready File. But once saved, I can open the file and size it to any size i'd like and cut it. Edit it, change colors whatever I want really.
Alot more to it and alot depends on the image you start with.
Then there is the creating your own file from scratch, and cutting them.
I'm having some fun sitting here Learning and Perfecting my skills.
Last edited by American & Proud; 09-28-2012 at 02:01 AM.
09-30-2012, 10:06 AM
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Cut a large Darth Vader. I'm not into star wars, but my Son is.
Been working on laying in the colors on this old gas pump and the old Amoco logo
I even remember them (now bp) as American Standard and then Standard Gas.
And a few others at the same time.
Been working on laying in the colors on this old gas pump and the old Amoco logo
I even remember them (now bp) as American Standard and then Standard Gas.
And a few others at the same time.
09-30-2012, 10:18 AM
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Have a look at my Thread here> https://www.chevyhhr.net/forums/showthread.php?t=35607
And still no "SASE" from you?
And still no "SASE" from you?
10-12-2012, 07:16 PM
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13 oz. Banner Sign 3ft. X 6ft. Gotta add 4 corner grommets with my grommet press and it's Done. Leftover piece of Banner Material I had from a roll. Time to open the New Box.
Did this one today for my buddys Shop.
Hope he likes it.
Did this one today for my buddys Shop.
Hope he likes it.
