Carbon Fibre Help

[Peter Normington]

steve
loads are available on corel forums, some good some bad,
peter

[David Rogers]

Can it use Photoshop plug-ins?

A ‘weave’ filter should be able to do it like those in Eyecandy textures.

Whilst not perfect – with a bit of tweaking it could give a fair approximation.

Dave

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[Stephen Ingham]

hi guys, thanks for the replies.

peter can you point me in the direction of a forum where i may be able to get something or even a tutorial?

Cheers
stephen

[David Rogers]

Typed "corel carbon fibre tutorial" into google…

and got various sites eg. http://www.freecoreldrawtraining.com/

[Matty Goodwin]

Hi Stephen

Buy the vinyl, Less hassle!!! 😀 😀

Matt

[Matty Goodwin]

Sorry stephen

My sense of humour!

We used to print the black diamond on metallic charcoal mactac to create the effect. From a few feet away looks good!
Matt

[Peter Normington]

quote Matty Goodwin:

Hi Stephen

Buy the vinyl, Less hassle!!! 😀 😀

Matt

Printed carbon effects can actually be more realistic than most of the textured stuff.
carbon fibre, in general is smooth, so print and laminate, is with a good pattern, more realistic

Peter

[Stephen Ingham]

Hi guys, the effect is for a sticker kit i am printing, so it would be better if i could create the effect through corel..to lay down as a background

cheers
stephen

[Robert Lambie]

I actually like/prefer the texture of carbon fibre on a vehicle. but i do agree with you peter that it is smooth on the genuine stuff.

I like the 3M carbon fibre the best "look wise" as its a sort of semi matt/silk finish and has genuine "lawnmower effect" type pattern… (if that makes sense). where as most others are a more gloss finish to them.

best "stocked" range i have seen is by Oracal, i have some Grey, Brown, White, black, clear/translucent… samples on my desk at work just now.

[Peter Normington]

quote Robert Lambie:

I actually like/prefer the texture of carbon fibre on a vehicle. but i do agree with you peter that it is smooth on the genuine stuff.

I like the 3M carbon fibre the best “look wise” as its a sort of semi matt/silk finish and has genuine “lawnmower effect” type pattern… (if that makes sense). where as most others are a more gloss finish to them.

best “stocked” range i have seen is by Oracal, i have some Grey, Brown, White, black, clear/translucent… samples on my desk at work just now.

I have an oracle sample, (not very big) and more expensive than 3m from Wm smith.
very similar though,
I think it is a novelty, and short lived as a product,
Peter

[Robert Lambie]

it "is" more expensive than smiths peter "but wider" at 1570mm i think.
the di-noc is 1200mm or there about. which isnt ideal when you have bonnets etc to wrap in one…

as i said though, i prefer the 3M Di-noc over the ones i have seen… i was basically mentioning the oracal because although there are many variations in Di-Noc, stocked variations of it are very limited. so RHG appear to have the most colours of Carbon fibre in stock that i know of, or are about too!

as for the FAD… yeh i agree the Carbon is going to be more or less a FAD, but that is a FAD for Carbon Fibre! My personal opinion is that we are just seeing the beginning of decorative films being used on cars. and as long as the clowns out there doing it for near to nothing get a grip… i also think there will be good money to be had, for "those doing it right". boy racers, or million pound footballers… they WILL pay to get their vehicles that bit different.

as i said, i believe we are just seeing the beginning of a boom!

[Matty Goodwin]

Your right Rob, its a ‘fad’ as matt black is/was. Where knocking white wraps out now (my car included!) as customers want something different! Maybe fluorescent pink next?

Let them dictate and well match there needs and take there money!

Matt

[Phil Craddock]

it may be a fad but i’m making hey while the sun shines as I have loads of Carbon work on MINIs recently and may it continue.

Doing another full roof wrap next week amongst other items!

I’m finding that a lot of the MINI community who can’t afford the JCW real carbon pieces (which you need your Lotto numbers to come up to afford) are going the vinyl route 🙂

I am currently using the Hexis black carbon over the 3M stuff though and its lovely to work with.

Not done much full wrap of matt black though only de-chroming of MINIs in matt.

Phil