How too?

[John Pol]

Does anybody know if there is a program out there. That if you take a side of a drag car that you can remove the name and sponcers. Or a program that you can remove the car and leave the name and sponcers. There are couple cars I like to do but no one makes the decals for it so I like to try to do it myself hoping with some help with the great members here.

John Pol

[scalenut]

John,do you mean from a photograph ?

[Bastardo]

It's hard to do as the cars don't have completely flat sides and the images are never taken at ana exact 90° angle. AND then there is a problem due to a aparalax of the camera's lens...

The best thing to do is get good reference shots of the car and design the decals yourself in a program like Corel Draw or anything similiar. Make sure you create vector drawings as this is cruicial for the resizing of the design to fit the model.

[John Pol]

Yes Andy I mean the photograph.

John Pol

[made007]

try photoshop

[scalenut]

try photoshop

Any rastor programs like photoshop are not the best choice for decals . As Bastardo mentioned , you need vector drawings if you are going to do any sizing ,, unless you don't mind jagged and blurry images.

That means drawing the decals in a vector format.

with Illustrator , corel, or the freeware Inkscape.

this would allow you to draw the images at a large full page size , than shrink it to model size and still retain all the crisp detail

Edited October 6, 2011 by scalenut