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Photoshop contour cut
Hello all………….
I’ve got a van to do this week for a customer who has already had some signs done with us.
🙂 His logo includes a standard font in photoshop and we added a style to the layer with a hard bevel to it. His previous stuff was not a problem as it was an A1 print with no contour cutting required.
How can l get my versacamm to print the text and then contour cut around each letter so l can letter his van. I’m not familiar with this process in photoshop. 😕 If it were Corel then no probs.
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Have you got SignLab?
Cheers, Dewi
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I have got Signlab Dewi.
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I was shown this when I bought my PC60 from Robert. Basically you draw around the object, ie circle, then edit the nodes to fit the shape. Then there is an option (think its create contour cut or something along those lines). Then you change the outline to invisible, then use the pen tool and add a hairline line. Doesn’t make alot of sense this does it? 😕
Problem is, I know exactly how to do it, but I don’t have SignLab on my home PC and explaining it without the program in front of me is a nightmare 🙁 Um, I can post it exactly tomorrow for you, or email it across tomorrow somthing like that.
Cheers, Dewi
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I don’t really know if this is the answer but I know that you can make a mask selection in Photoshop and then convert it to a path. How you would then export this to enable your printer/cutter to cut the Photoshop path is beyond my tiny brainpower.
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So, how can you do this in Corel????
Just to confuse things a little 😆
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Cheers lads……..
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If you have the time Dewi an email would be great.
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How come his mug-shot is bigger than all ours Rob????
Is payment an issue here… 😀 😀 -
I don’t have Signlab on my home PC so l can’t try it out now unfortunately. 🙁 (?)
What file would you save the image as in photoshop to import it into Signlab?
The mug shot isn’t any diferent to yours Nobby, l just have a big head. :- 😀 -
hi billy
see if this makes sence easy to show hard to explane
if you created the lettering in coral in the first place inport the bitmap and place the vector over the top of the bit map print & cut
starting from scratch
create vectors in coral export eash colour layer in turn in to photoshop on top of each other do your photoshoping save as tiff import back in to coral place the origanal over the top no fill CutPath selected Print & cutif you dont understand straight away it may have given you a clue
chris
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The original was created in Photoshop as the customer loved the trickery with the bevel created on the font.
I’m having problems printing direct from Signlab to my versacamm, a problem that has existed since taking delivery of the versacamm. Cadlink have been little help. 😥 😥 😥 -
Can you not import into Corel and do it from there mate?
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Just what I was thinking Steve !
If you start in Corel with your typeface convert to curves and export it as an EPS file to Photoshop. Then do your effects etc and save it as a flattened bitmap image, then bring back into Corel and line it up with a little care you’re done 😉 If needs be you can also do a small inside contour either in Corel or outside in Photoshop to give you a little bleed on to allow for cutting registration too.Nigel
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Right, got SignLab in front of me now 😀
Create a shape around your image and edit the nodes so it matches it. This can take a while if the image is somewhat complex.
Once you’ve done this, go up to Cut, then click on the option ‘ Make Contour Cut Object ‘. This will change the line to a dotted line. Then make this line invisible by clicking on your colour palatte.
Finally, go to the Stroke tool (last but one in the toolbar on the left hand side) and do a hair line stroke. Thats it! You should be ready to print and cut 😀
Let me know how you go on Billy. I’m still learning all this at the moment, but I’ll be printing/cutting most of the day tomorrow as I’m launching it as a new service on Monday morning 😀
Btw Robert, Mrs Dewi isn’t happy at me taking another woman to work with me, printed or otherwise 😉 😉
Cheers, Dewi
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havent read all this thread proper but dewis explanation si about right i think.. well tahts how the pc60 does it.
if its a vector ist very easy. just select the outside object of the vector image, apply a thin outline then selt that outline on its own. then click make contour cut object etc. same as dewi has said.
if your working with an image to contour cut the you will have to digitise the contour cut, again as dewi has said.
there is a process that programes will do on their own to make a contour cut but takes time and isnt realy accurate. so if you can do the above you wont have a problem 😉 -
I’m going to go with Nigels suggestion.
type the text – convert it to curves – save as an eps.
open in photoshop – apply the trickery to the font – save as tiff
import into corel – line up with original – apply cutpath – DONE
No node editing makes me a happy man 😀 😀 😀
Thanks Dewi for your directions. 😀
Will also try your way but it does sound a little bit more time consuming.
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i heard that you can only drive the versacamm from signlab e6 or 7
anything less has to be exported to corel or somethin then done from their. eddie
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