• Building a guitar- Graphics help!
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Hey everyone, I've been building a guitar recently, I have all the parts, everything sorted, the body painted etc, and I'm currently designing the decals which will be printed on vinyl and applied to the body before I apply the clear lacquer. Here is my design, and some photos of the guitar so far: [IMG]http://i51.tinypic.com/15yamuq.png[/IMG] The design (Done for me by a friend who works in graphic design). [IMG_thumb]http://i53.tinypic.com/10sfx8m.jpg[/IMG_thumb] A photo of what I have so far. I have used photoshop to get mock parts which are the exact perfect size when printed. I drew around the guitar body onto paper, scanned it and created the decals to size, so they are perfect. I have printed them just to check and they are perfect, they just look awful. I am not particuarly artistic and I am struggling to get the decals to look high enough quality, and was wondering whether someone would be kind enough to help me out. I don't mind what cards are used and whatnot, as long as they're the exact same size as the ones posted here. I also need the large one to remain as a joker. [url="http://host-a.net/chaz13/Decals.zip"]Here's the psd file with the current images I have, please stick to the same size/shape/etc as the original.[/url] Thanks to anyone who helps! I really appreciate it. I've been working on this for a long long time and this is the last major step before I can finish it off and put it all together :smile:
Can't wait to see how it turns out.
I really need help with this, here's some more pictures of the project to see if anyone gets a bit more interested :smile: [img_thumb]http://i55.tinypic.com/33tnuio.jpg[/IMG_thumb] The neck is made of ash with a rosewood fingerboard, and the body is basswood. I intend to cut the head into the classic fender shape. It is not pre-cut because the shape is copyrighted and so selling a neck with a head of that shape would get you some serious lawsuits! [IMG_thumb]http://i54.tinypic.com/rbmgqp.jpg[/IMG_thumb] I really hope someone can give me a hand- I need high quality images or it will look tacky and destroy all the effort I've put into it. After I get them printed it's literally just a two or three day job to get the clear coat on, get the neck finished and to put it all together. Setting it up will take a while after that, but that's the fun bit!
The cards design looks pretty nice. But what you probably did was resize a raster image. Ask you graphic designer friend to give you a vector based image that can be rescaled infinitely.
Yeah, that's exactly what I did. Vectors, why did I not think of that? great idea!
Are you going to inlay the neck?
Nah, unfortunately not. I don't really have the skill to. I'm not sure how I'd go about doing it, either. I am going to have the fret markers shown in the design, but they'll probably be vinyl.
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