Kudos…

Coda

Coda

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…to all those around here (most people around here) who do art for their builds. I just spent about two hours trying to figure it out, and I ended up slamming the laptop shut and nearly throwing it out the window. You artists definitely possess a skill…so kudos to you.
 
Coda said:
…to all those around here (most people around here) who do art for their builds. I just spent about two hours trying to figure it out, and I ended up slamming the laptop shut and nearly throwing it out the window. You artists definitely possess a skill…so kudos to you.
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I feel your pain!!!
 
Meh, don’t overthink it. I use photoshop and use the first thing that comes to mind, most of the time. Import the drill template, size it up and be done with it. It’s the finishing that I’m about done with.
 
+1 on what are you using? I use clip studio for all my art and then just use illustrator to image trace it into a vector, I find illustrator impossible to accomplish anything.
 
Big Monk said:
A tool for measurement. Corel Draw has the best I’ve used. It makes mapping out the enclosure, hardware placement, Tayda drill coordinates, etc. an afterthought.

I generally map everything out in Corel Draw in a number of different layers. Tayda drill coordinates have thier own layer. Enclosure dimensions and hardware, including internal component sizes for pots, switch, jacks, etc. go in another. Graphics go in the white, gloss and color layers.

Having a robust measuring tool in the design program makes tweaking and finalizing very simple.
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Perhaps artwork isn’t for me, then. All of that precision type of stuff stresses me out. I lack the vocabulary. I’ll just stick to my crayons…
 
A trick I've used is to use the tayda drill template and just make the holes the size of my knobs and the switch and LED bezel I intend to use, then just screen shot that and use that to space my text and graphics without having to measure too much, just have to make sure you get the screenshot to scale and you're good.
 
If you're talking about vectoral software, It's really not that complicated, it's just a matter of learning the few basics functions to create basic forms/text, move, copy, paste, import, group/ungroup and align...

If you're talking about doing drawings/proper artwork, yes that's a bit more complicated. Most of my build I follow the same process:

1- Import the drilling template as a guide.
2- Place large X where I will need to drill
3- Put all the text object I will need (Tone, Gain, etc.)
4- Find an image I like on the Interweb, copy it and paste it... resize to fit...

Voila...

Then you can get into more advance stuff, where you will modify the image, convert it from bitmap to vectors, change the colors, etc... or draw your own art with a drawing software.
 
EGRENIER said:
If you're talking about vectoral software, It's really not that complicated, it's just a matter of learning the few basics functions to create basic forms/text, move, copy, paste, import, group/ungroup and align...

If you're talking about doing drawings/proper artwork, yes that's a bit more complicated. Most of my build I follow the same process:

1- Import the drilling template as a guide.
2- Place large X where I will need to drill
3- Put all the text object I will need (Tone, Gain, etc.)
4- Find an image I like on the Interweb, copy it and paste it... resize to fit...

Voila...
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This is what I was trying to do. I couldn’t figure out how to copy and paste the image. It’s not as easy as “copy - paste”…there a fancy tool for it, and then there’s the option for choosing the personality of the image you are pasting, and then you have to vectorize the spectrum frequency, and mellify the azimuth reading, bogeys on our tail, Goose, Maverick, Ice Man, and so on. Next thing in knew I was driving the Mars Rover!…

I’m sure that I could figure the software out eventually…but it’s a completely different world than anything I am used to…
 
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Coda said:
This is what I was trying to do. I couldn’t figure out how to copy and paste the image. It’s not as easy as “copy - paste”…there a fancy tool for it, and then there’s the option for choosing the personality of the image you are pasting, and then you have to vectorize the spectrum frequency, and mellify the azimuth reading, bogeys on our tail, Goose, Maverick, Ice Man, and so on. Next thing in knew I was driving the Mars Rover!…

I’m sure that I could figure the software out eventually…but it’s a completely different world than anything I am used to…
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If you're on Windows, I use InkScape (free software)... there are plenty of Youtube videos on how to... I didn't know the software and I just search a tutorial for what I want to do...

Now if your goal is UV printing, that's a bit more complicated as you'll have to manage layers and use different software to cover all the requirements.
 
EGRENIER said:
If you're on Windows, I use InkScape (free software)... there are plenty of Youtube videos on how to... I didn't know the software and I just search a tutorial for what I want to do...

Now if your goal is UV printing, that's a bit more complicated as you'll have to manage layers and use different software to cover all the requirements.
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Inkjet on water slide paper is already my moonshot…UV would be the equivalent of me building a functioning Tardis…
 
Coda said:
Inkjet on water slide paper is already my moonshot…UV would be the equivalent of me building a functioning Tardis…
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Inkjet on water slide is how I started, mainly black only... I graduated to InkJet on vinyl to be able to do more color...
 
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