mopar691

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    Banner size

    who said limit to only one? I keep saying both have their uses. and yes for this banner I would grab ai. Mush faster and smaller file, faster rip, all around better file handling and output for what he did. But again this is my workflow. If you like PS for it great, I do not. IMO drawing in PS blows goats. Always has, always will, Yes it can be done and some are absolutely great at it. But it is a raster editing program. Just like you said you use it for. It can never compete with something like Corel or AI in terms of drawing something for vector output. It just does not have the capability.
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    Banner size

    Create 300 dpi at 1/4 size, export as tiff, resize in your rip and print.
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    Banner size

    yes, if your just tracing and copying something someone gave you in a image, yep, PS is the way to go. It is the only way you can copy bits of a raster image and edit them for auto trace. Pull out the colors you want, make em black and auto trace away.
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    Banner size

    ya, what about print? I have 396 linear feet (1782 sq ft) of 3951 going thru the lam tonight for a few wraps. Wanna come help install? my guys could use a hand as were way behind. Wraps I prefer AI for design, PS for Effects if used (prefer eye candy) and most of them from right in AI. But most are done right within AI. Not sure what you mean by cutting edge and chops. If its the ugly regurgitated crap some of the other shops put out with every available PS effect applied to it to point you can not even figure out what you are looking at then ya that cutting edge thing is something I will not learn. They take 15 min to throw together. 10 of which are looking at the color wheel. Here is some of what I consider the best and cutting edge wraps in the industry, http://graphicd-signs.com/portfolio/vehicles/ and I do not see any PS chops. But again this is me, take it with a grain of salt. Your workflow may differ and everyone has their own way to do it. The AI vs PS for wraps has been beat to death many times over. But this is one of the very few times I have heard PS called a better design software in this industry.
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    Banner size

    ok
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    Banner size

    Screenprinting should be raster for something like that. whole different ball game. It should of been half-toned on something like a 320 mesh screen and not altered at all imo. If you are going to break up your image and auto trace it then yes, PS is the way to go. Really no other way. But if you are going to draw it or design it then no, I do not believe PS is the go to tool. And you did say for design in your first post, not for converting or tracing a image like you have supplied samples of. Excuse me, 2nd post
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    Banner size

    ya its going to take hours, That is why the customer gets billed if that is what they want. Why not posterize and just print or get it printed if they do not want to spent the money? Plenty of people on here print and whole sale houses like signs365 or signs2trade can get you a banner in a day.
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    Banner size

    Ya, that is where I differ. Why prep what I will not use. I do not use autotrace at all. I would redraw it. Grid a few boxes in perspective and repeat/rescale. That is if I was doing it for true vector output on a banner size with limited colors.
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    Banner size

    why ps? I see no need. But that is your workflow, not mine.
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    Banner size

    Yes I would.
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    Banner size

    OK, I will bite. Tell me what your doing that by creating in raster, then creating cut paths in another program is easier to do in a program that is designed to do it in? I have been using these programs for more than 15 years. Please explain. Why not put your wacom stroke in with ai or corel. If the OP is printing, he has way to much dpi. If he is running a cutter please do so in something vector based and not in PS. Yes it can work but it is nowhere near ideal or suited for that type of work.
  12. Every show that I have done in the last 4 years my only mistake is not bringing enough help or shirts. I am very selective where I go if I am to go thru the work. I did a ton at first and lost lots and lost even more in the thousands of hours to do them. If I have any doubt that I will not profit over a grand after everyone and everything is paid I do not bother. Only exception is a few small functions that I do. Some events I have grossed over 8k. All heat press vinyl all cut and pressed on the spot. Takes about 14 people, 4 heat presses, 2 or 3 cutters, lots of tables and a few thousand shirts. I have done some with 4 of us and sold a tad over 1000 shirts in less than 6 hours, but that was with a lot of ready transfers. I do very few, way to much work than they are worth. I think I am only up for 5 this year. I do travel for them. Big money at big events. 50,000 plus people thru the doors over a day or two. Everyone likes their name on a shirt. Hometown shows, craft shows, etc all blow imo. Its more people like you that are looking for ways to make the stuff, not have you sell it to them. Chamber events, fairs, and the like have always been a joke. Give them a crafty way to spend money and win it then your onto something but most events will not allow it.
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    Tyre eps

    NO!!!! The correct answer is "just purchase that one".
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    Wet application and Trailer screws?

    Takes time to learn it, you will burn a bunch but while learning. Heat guns have their places in wraps. But not over trailer rivets.
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    Wet application and Trailer screws?

    Torch. Heat gun is slow
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    Wet application and Trailer screws?

    when you have hot 15000 rivets on a trailer, you really gunna do everyone with a heat gun? Man, that is going to take a long time.
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    Fixing other sign shops mess

    Looks pretty nice for a $200 dollar sign. They got what they paid for in my opinion.
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    Hey guys

    Who got kicked? I Missed it
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    Bad Graphics Designers

    What did hew draw it in? get the original art and all is good.
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    Trying to Figure out how to do a double outline?

    Here, I just merged it Numbers with outline.ai
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    Large Format Printing Help!!

    head strikes
  22. my ip locates me more than 100 miles from where I am. IP location is by no means a way to track someone.
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    my sublimation review

    i LOVE this.
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    Large Format Printing

    Canned profiles blow. My suggestion to him was get a rip installed and not use the windows driver. Cobra only supplies standard ICC profiles for his printer if using the Hi-Temp ink also.
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    Large Format Printing

    Hes not running standard ink. Needs one created. I told him next week I can come down with a profiler and get him close.