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vehicle graphics: Text Effect
this is nothing exciting, but i thought i would show you anyway.
basically an existing customer of ours would have this font/design put on their vans/signs to make up the overall image of their company. the problem was, although we don’t do much for them, the design was 3d letters mad-up in vinyl. it felt like a good idea at the time but became a pain as it was time consuming… anyway, since we now have our own solvent printer, the design has been re-done by importing the original text and applying a beveled edge etc to the letters in photoshop. printed, laminated and contour cut. although it is “still” a drag doing it, the over all effect is much better. (not or colour choices etc 😀 )
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7 Replies
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nice one rob..do you use photoshop for all your digi work? 😀
just wondering 😉
nik
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to be honest nik i am not on the tools (software/cutters/printers) enough these days. for me i use signlab 5 rev 12 and photoshop 7.
Andrew is the whiz on software these days… he is always trying new stuff were i don’t have the same time. which i think is good as it makes us a good team.
anyway… i think corel and many more packages work in this fashion. however i think the newer signlabs and flexisign works in similar way as opposed to bevels etc… -
Nice, tidy and crisp.
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excellent is this not what print & cut is really all about as I’ve said before we don’t see enough of it
chris
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I really like the way that has become 3 dimensional. And much easier to do this way than building it up in vinyl. You could have also included a soft shadow too.
I agree with Chris – this is what print and cut is all about
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phil soft or drop shadows on the outside present real problems as to where to cut too so as rob and andrew have done is to add a cut colour shdow thats what makes it stand apart . even if you print drop shadows on to clear to fitt to a white van the cut line never adds to the look.
chris
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I understand what you are saying Chris and I have found that if you create the cutting vector first then introduce the soft shadow you can get a good soft shadow effect on a print and cut design. It only works if applying onto a white background of course. When done this way I prefer the look of the soft shadow to a solid shadow effect 😀
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