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  • How would you do the background of this logo?

    Posted by Peter Normington on 13 September 2007 at 20:51

    this is for a vivaro which is silver metalic, what I want to do is just print the bubbles on clear, so that they give a wet droplet effect to the paint. the effect is a fill from signlab, but the grey is part of the image. How easy should it be to give a transparent background to the bubbles in ps or corel, I have tried, but not having great success.
    The text and arrows will be print and cut, on white vinyl and applied after. the grey part of the arrows will be chrome.

    any advice or a similar effect with a transparent background?

    the final design is yet to be done, but need to know if I can get the effect first.

    Peter


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    David Rowland replied 18 years, 1 month ago 10 Members · 17 Replies
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  • Robert Lambie

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    13 September 2007 at 20:58

    is this a large graphic?
    can you not just print the whole thing on white and contour cut or do you want an exact match of the van colour?
    you could just print the background in gray scale using spot colour black onto clear? the only bit that would be lost would be the tiny whit dot on each bubble.

  • David Rogers

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    13 September 2007 at 21:14

    If you have eye-candy water drops – do it onto a white background (image) & print as grey scale on clear…should work.


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  • Andrew Boyle

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    13 September 2007 at 21:15

    or an image……. 😀


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  • David Rogers

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    13 September 2007 at 21:23

    Or just ‘magic’ away the grey background!


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  • Jill Marie Welsh

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    13 September 2007 at 21:40

    …or mist your cut vinyl with water, spray Krylon over it in one direction and another color of Krylon in another direction and leave dry.
    I’ve seen Letterheads do this with panels at meets, but it might not be for the feint of heart!
    Love….Jill

  • Peter Normington

    Member
    13 September 2007 at 21:49

    thanks all, specially Dave.
    I must be having another senior moment, (worn down buy a customer today)
    I created the bevel with eye candy, forgot I had the water drops filter!

    Peter

  • Peter Normington

    Member
    13 September 2007 at 21:51

    Hi Jill,

    Whats Krylon? and would it leave a bumpy surface?

    Peter

  • Andrew Boyle

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    13 September 2007 at 21:54

    http://www.krylon.com/main/inspiration_ … ation_list

    interesting………the metal would be nice on mdf beveled letters

  • Phill Fenton

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    13 September 2007 at 22:20

    Or you could just get a hose pipe and soak the van to get the same effect 😕

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    13 September 2007 at 22:38
    quote Phill:

    Or you could just get a hose pipe and soak the van to get the same effect 😕

    :lol1: :lol1:

  • Peter Normington

    Member
    13 September 2007 at 22:40
    quote Phill:

    Or you could just get a hose pipe and soak the van to get the same effect 😕

    funny you should say that Phil I did take a photo of a piece of foamex that was left out doors overnight and it did had some really good droplets on it, must try and find it.

    Peter

  • Peter Normington

    Member
    13 September 2007 at 22:45

    or i could get this guy to wet it for me

    peter

  • Phill Fenton

    Member
    13 September 2007 at 22:45

    What’re you doing up at this time of night anyway Peter? It’s Thursday night don’t you know :thumbup2:

  • James Martin

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    13 September 2007 at 23:01

    that is incredible peter, fokin tremendous.

  • Frank_Galloway

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    14 September 2007 at 09:23
    quote James Martin:

    that is incredible peter, fokin tremendous.

    it’s only a monkey going for a pee… some people are easily impressed :lol1:

    😉

  • Glenn Sharp

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    14 September 2007 at 09:37

    I do that every day :lol1:

  • David Rowland

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    14 September 2007 at 11:50

    you wouldn’t believe the amount of time we spent on bubbles like this… our company image is based on it.

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