Made my own tav cover decal
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Looks really good.
A good way that I've used in the past to get 1:1 scale references for decals is to do a pencil rubbing of the area on plain white paper. Then I use a scanner to bring the rubbing on to the computer. I use reference measurements to ensure the correct scale. A couple of good programs I like to use are Gimp and Inkscape. Both are open source and free. They are very comparable to photoshop and illustrator. I like to use Inkscape to make my decals, because it is vector based graphics system and allows for infinite scaling without loss of resolution. That's how I made the water slide decals on my predator 212 engine.
https://oldminibikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/fox-campus-trail-bike-build.161269/post-1275251
A good way that I've used in the past to get 1:1 scale references for decals is to do a pencil rubbing of the area on plain white paper. Then I use a scanner to bring the rubbing on to the computer. I use reference measurements to ensure the correct scale. A couple of good programs I like to use are Gimp and Inkscape. Both are open source and free. They are very comparable to photoshop and illustrator. I like to use Inkscape to make my decals, because it is vector based graphics system and allows for infinite scaling without loss of resolution. That's how I made the water slide decals on my predator 212 engine.
https://oldminibikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/fox-campus-trail-bike-build.161269/post-1275251
Thank you! I’m new to all this stuff. My wife bought a cutter, printers, presses, ect ect. Probably 2 grand worth of stuff and she has made a total of 92 dollars now. So 1988 dollars till we see a profit lol
That is great information and idea for scaling it!!! I have Gimp but I need to look into Inkscape. That might be a lot better for making the actually outline shape.
I seriously sat there in cricut design space moving standard shapes, slicing and using a tape measure to get the dimensions.
I bet I have 4 hours of my time screwing with this.
I’d like to get the sticker shape on point and I could sell some custom made stickers if people are interested. Once the basic design is done I could put whatever text, backgrounds, and designs they wanted.
going to try to do the round part next. Should be easy. I stole the name puncher from a ruttman I seen a few years ago. I was going to do a boxing glove in a black circle with red offset around jt.
That is great information and idea for scaling it!!! I have Gimp but I need to look into Inkscape. That might be a lot better for making the actually outline shape.
I seriously sat there in cricut design space moving standard shapes, slicing and using a tape measure to get the dimensions.
I bet I have 4 hours of my time screwing with this.
I’d like to get the sticker shape on point and I could sell some custom made stickers if people are interested. Once the basic design is done I could put whatever text, backgrounds, and designs they wanted.
going to try to do the round part next. Should be easy. I stole the name puncher from a ruttman I seen a few years ago. I was going to do a boxing glove in a black circle with red offset around jt.
I make decals for all my bikes. Do them up in Photoshop (.psd files) and then have my buddy print them on vinyl. They work great. I post the Photoshop files for them on www.pinrepair.com/minibikes if anyone wants to use them. Done all sorts from Harrison, Fox, Speedway, Rupp, Honda. Personally i use Photoshop. Doing vector style graphics takes a lot longer (at least for me), and the juice is not worth the squeeze in my eye. I just use scissors to cut them out too. I mean you could get fancier, but again, I'm just making them for me, so it's not worth the effort (or money) to electronically cut them.
http://www.pinrepair.com/minibikes/p/decal3.jpg
http://www.pinrepair.com/minibikes/p/decal3.jpg
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I might steal your ct70 logos for my knock off bike.
I already have the cutter, and equipment. My wife is big into making and selling shirts, hats, vinyl decals, ect ect. She makes and sells tons of stuff.
I don’t have photoshop just Gimp. I could use photoshop pretty good back in 2001. But I haven’t touched it since.
I already have the cutter, and equipment. My wife is big into making and selling shirts, hats, vinyl decals, ect ect. She makes and sells tons of stuff.
I don’t have photoshop just Gimp. I could use photoshop pretty good back in 2001. But I haven’t touched it since.
I used your method to perfect my TAV decal. I pencil rubbed, scanned, used inkscape to make the shape, colored the background, dropped that into cricut design software, added text, offset, and the lantern decal. Printed on a piece of paper, cut out to test the size and it was 100% perfect!
Thanks again for sharing your method. I need to watch some tutorials on inkscape. Stuff is all like greek to me. But I have nothing but time on my hands right now.
Thanks again for sharing your method. I need to watch some tutorials on inkscape. Stuff is all like greek to me. But I have nothing but time on my hands right now.