OTHER Guide for using Affinity Designer and Tayda UV printing services

[optilude]

Hi,

(Please move if wrong forum)

I wrote a guide for using the Tayda UV printing service with Affinity Designer 2 (I used the iPad version). It was aimed originally at the Jeds Peds community but very little of it is Jeds specific. I learned a lot about how to do it from this forum. Hopefully this is useful to someone else in future:

https://martinaspeli.net/posts/tayda-uv-printing/

Cheers,
Martin

 

[Robert]

Very nice, thanks for that!

I'm not sure about the iPad version, but on desktop you can set the center of the document as the origin by dragging from the top left corner of the rulers to the center of your document.

 

[joelorigo]

Thank you for sharing this. I have not done any UV printing because I been avoiding having to learn a new program - always great once you know it but, for me, torturous to start. With your step by step I think I'm going to dive in!

 

[Stevohuff]

Late to this, but how did you get the pedal components in your side bar so neatly?

I think I have the same collection of component files, but your setup is super clean

 

[Brett]

how did you get the pedal components in your side bar so neatly?

Go to your window view menu, make sure Assets is selected.

From the Assets menu, you'd just add any graphics you'd like to have available globally.


Funny that this should come up, I just wrapped up a few more new components that I planned on eventually sharing (if anyone is interested). I added a few knobs to my GitHub repo a while back:

PedalBuildingStuff/Graphics/Pedal Hardware at main · brettcoppolo/PedalBuildingStuff

Contribute to brettcoppolo/PedalBuildingStuff development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

I've also just realized that I've not shared anything I've created other than the few knobs that are on there. I should do something about that.

 

[Synchrony Pedalworks]

Go to your window view menu, make sure Assets is selected.

From the Assets menu, you'd just add any graphics you'd like to have available globally.
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Funny that this should come up, I just wrapped up a few more new components that I planned on eventually sharing (if anyone is interested). I added a few knobs to my GitHub repo a while back:

PedalBuildingStuff/Graphics/Pedal Hardware at main · brettcoppolo/PedalBuildingStuff

Contribute to brettcoppolo/PedalBuildingStuff development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

I've also just realized that I've not shared anything I've created other than the few knobs that are on there. I should do something about that.

This rocks! As mentioned in an earlier post, I'm trying to switch to Affinity. These assets and templates are fantastic!

 

[Brett]

These assets and templates are fantastic!

I'm preparing some of my other assets to be uploaded right now. Here's a preview of some of the jacks in the pipeline:

 

[Stevohuff]

These are awesome!

Apologies for the newbie question, but how did you separate the different components into different assets? I bought an SVG pedal pack online and everything is on one page

 

[Brett]

but how did you separate the different components into different assets?

I was going to try to do a screencast, but with a quick Google search, I found a video that shows how to save assets:

Skip to about 8:20 for information about saving assets.

 

[Stevohuff]

I was going to try to do a screencast, but with a quick Google search, I found a video that shows how to save assets:

Skip to about 8:20 for information about saving assets.

Thanks man!

I know it was a bit of a letmegooglethat.com/ request, but I’m coming off the tail end of a botched nut slot repair on one of my acoustics, so I’m learning when to DIY, and when to trust the professionals

 

[SerjantIV]

I had a similar issue lining things up just right, especially with darker backgrounds throwing off the white ink layer. What helped me was printing a test version using a sample of metalized paper from https://www.synponh.com/products-item/metalized-paper/ — gave me a better idea of how contrast and colors would come out before sending the real one to Tayda. Made a big difference in the final look.