Problem solved.

[Kennyboy]

I have been searching every day now for about a week and I can not find 1/12 scale Ferrari F40 gauges. I do not have the proper software to scale down 1:1 gauges either. I have burned up so many full sheets of paper with blurry prints on them. I am getting so frustrated with this! I need to move on with my build on my 1/12 F40 but these darn gauges are holding me back and the decal that came with the model (Protar) is completely useless because it is the wrong scale for the PE dash bezel.

I am hoping someone can help me with this.....I work a lot and most of my model building is done very early in the morning (when I have very little patience for nonsense.)

Thank you for your help on this....

Ken

Edited June 8, 2013 by Kennyboy

[Kennyboy]

Oh yeah, the program I have is Photoshop 4. I don't know how to use it very well though. I'm just confused.....

[Chief Joseph]

Did the kit come with any kind of gauge faces?

[Kennyboy]

Did the kit come with any kind of gauge faces?

Yes but they were very brittle and the too small for 1/12 scale. Not to mention, they weren't even Ferrari gauges.

Problem is solved, a colleague at work helped me thru the problem.

It turns out that I was trying to resize the picture not RE-SCALE the picture when printing. When you re-scale it prints clear enough to see the numbers on the gauge.

Edited June 8, 2013 by Kennyboy

[sjordan2]

Where do you find the command to rescale?

[Chief Joseph]

Glad you got things sorted, Ken. Skip, the command is actually an option in the Image Size dialog. At the bottom, there's an option for "Resample Image." If this option is checked, you can lose quality when changing the size of an image-- it's almost like taking a picture of a picture.

[Kennyboy]

Where do you find the command to rescale?

Glad you got things sorted, Ken. Skip, the command is actually an option in the Image Size dialog. At the bottom, there's an option for "Resample Image." If this option is checked, you can lose quality when changing the size of an image-- it's almost like taking a picture of a picture.

Actually, I found the command to rescale in my printer preferences when I went to print. It is in "effects" . Print % of original size. I then turned up the resolution to 1200 dpi (for photo paper) When you do this, you can check "view print size" prior to printing to see the rough size. May differ from printer to printer but the concept should be similar.

Takes a little trial and error and you may have to downsize the original image a little before re-scaling. (try not to downsize too much or your image will get fuzzy)

With this, I took a 6" wide picture of a gauge cluster and printed it at around 1" wide....very clearly I might add.

Edited June 9, 2013 by Kennyboy