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  • Advice required about showing design work please

    Posted by Paul.Wood on 18 November 2014 at 16:35

    Hi guys, I’ve got a few customers coming in now wanting car/van work and want to see the design work first to ok it.
    Now up to this point I’ve just been using Microsoft paint, to give the basic idea what it would look like.
    But I want to make this part of the job look more professional.
    What program do you guys use to apply the designs onto vehicles, either a photo of the actual vehicle or of a computer image of the same vehicle?
    Something like this is what I mean

    Any help much appreciated

    Martin Pearson replied 10 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Kevin Flowers

    Member
    18 November 2014 at 20:03

    Paul
    you would normally do this in your design software, please don’t say your design software im MS Photo Paint

    Kev

  • Paul.Wood

    Member
    18 November 2014 at 20:07

    The program with my cutter is Signgo.

  • Kevin Flowers

    Member
    18 November 2014 at 20:11

    Paul
    don’t know the software but looking at it online it seems capable of working with bitmaps and vectors so yes do the lay out in that. Ensure you resize for A4 before exporting or printing out

    Kev

  • Paul.Wood

    Member
    18 November 2014 at 20:13

    Cheers will give it a go, didn’t realise it was the same program to do them

  • Martin Pearson

    Member
    18 November 2014 at 21:45

    I just show customers what it would look like on the screen, stopped printing them as I was fed up with people hawking my designs about trying to get a better price from other sign companies. Personally I won’t copy someone else’s design but there are plenty who will.
    Read on here some time ago that some people will give a printed layout to the customer once a deposit has been paid, that way there is little chance of them going else where but if they do you have some sort of payment for your time.

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