Photo Shop Pro (Coral)

[John Pol]

Hi all I`m thinking of buying the Photo Shop pro from Coral. But before I buy can anybody tell would it be a good program to do decals.

John Pol

[Bastardo]

When it's up to decals, Corel Draw is my weapon of choice I've been told that Adobe Illustrator is even better and easier to use, but I haven't tried it yet.

[crazyjim]

I switched to Corel Draw just recently because I couldn't get support from Arts & Letters Express anymore. I've never done decals, but Corel Draw sure is a powerful program.

[Art Laski]

I just started using Inkscape. It's open-source (free!) and so far I am pleased with what it can do. It's a vector-based program, so scaling the images doesn't affect the resolution.

-Art

[Exotics_Builder]

Photopaint, Paint Shop Pro and some others are bitmap based and not as good at doing decals as a vector based tool such as CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator. I use CorelDraw X5 and will use a tool to trace a bitmap and then adjust it.

I also use a color laser printer for decals I produce, rather than a inkjet printer.

A word of warning, in case you do not know or read on this or other boards, that making decals is very tedious and may actually require a layering technique like Fred Cady did on his silk screen decals to get best results. Also, as mentioned often, whites and metailics are doable without a lot of special (and more costly) work.

Be prepared to invest a lot of time in experimenting and testing your results.