gtfields13
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I received my first printed enclosure from Tayda on Monday (it's been a week - as I excited as I was, I haven't had time to do anything fun like work on a pedal). I sent in my order on June 17th, and it was delivered on July 7th, which is fine by me.
This was a great learning experience for me, and it provided me with the feedback I wanted on some of my design choices the next time around - like some adjustments to font sizes, image sizes, and brushing. Overall, though I am happy with the big design choices that I intend to use across all of my pedals. This is the start of Phido Sound! I will definitely rework parts of this design (art, content, layout) before I print it again. I have already revved basic layout elements and implemented changes for the next three pedals that are in my queue.
If anyone is curious about my workflow, I am happy to provide more details. There were a few oddities I had to figure out along the way. The basics, though are:
1. Pixel art work in Affinity Photo 2
2. Conversion to SVG with free online tool (required a lot of manual touch up in Affinity Design 2, I have switched to Super Vectorizer Pro which is working MUCH better for my next design.)
3. Text, layout and PDF generation in Affinity Designer 2 (following detailed settings by Coppola Electronics
4. PDF check in Acrobat (possibly important, in my workflow the layer order reversed when I generated PDF)
This pedal is Metallic Candy Red, with only black in the color layer, and matte finish over the print.
This was a great learning experience for me, and it provided me with the feedback I wanted on some of my design choices the next time around - like some adjustments to font sizes, image sizes, and brushing. Overall, though I am happy with the big design choices that I intend to use across all of my pedals. This is the start of Phido Sound! I will definitely rework parts of this design (art, content, layout) before I print it again. I have already revved basic layout elements and implemented changes for the next three pedals that are in my queue.
If anyone is curious about my workflow, I am happy to provide more details. There were a few oddities I had to figure out along the way. The basics, though are:
1. Pixel art work in Affinity Photo 2
2. Conversion to SVG with free online tool (required a lot of manual touch up in Affinity Design 2, I have switched to Super Vectorizer Pro which is working MUCH better for my next design.)
3. Text, layout and PDF generation in Affinity Designer 2 (following detailed settings by Coppola Electronics
4. PDF check in Acrobat (possibly important, in my workflow the layer order reversed when I generated PDF)
This pedal is Metallic Candy Red, with only black in the color layer, and matte finish over the print.
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