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" Come on Guys, let up and help this fellow " The only reason a sign maker does his or her best design is to impress or satisfy another sign or graphic designer. The average joe wouldn't know a good sign if it jumped up and bit him on the backside. The advent of computers has ruined the sign industry ( just my view point ) a good sign writer or sign painters work had his personality, style and free flow that only a human can do.. through the years I could tell who painted a sign by his unique style, brush strokes and composition, not saying they were all good designs or good workmanship.. which brings me back to the point, the customers usually do not know a good sign if you showed him one. We all learn by mistakes and hopefully we will not repeat it again.. I also recommend you develop your own style and not try to duplicate or copy someone else's designs, hang in there learn by watching but be yourself.... 'the signmaker'

Wandering around the yard...

Going silkscreen plastisol even though I really only do waterbase , But this guy is go want more. Not Htv vinyl as This order will most likely go over 200 t-shirts. I'm just waiting on the customer to go buy and bring me the Blanks. funny thing is they always feel if they buy the t shirts that it will be less. he was like the lady charge's me $40 for 1 dozen. I'm still charging him $3.50 each to print. here's the mock up and screen ready to print. and he wants these by Tuesday. lol

^Correct Fonts are usually installed to a windows system folder. If every program were to store fonts individually, this would take up enormous amounts of space on your hard drive. To solve this, any program that uses fonts is able see and use them out of that central folder. If you're curious where this is, open file explorer and search your PC for "fonts." It should be the first folder it returns in the search. When you download a font to install, it will most likely be a file with the .TTF extension. This stands for True Type Font. It's the most commonly used font extension out there. Double click to open it. You should now see a window pop up with a preview of the font. It usually says something like "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 1234567890," and will show various sizes. Click on "Install" in the upper left corner of the window. Follow whatever prompts it gives you to complete the install, and you are good to go. This is how Windows works. I have no idea how Mac handles this, but if I had to guess, it would be the same or similar. There are other types of font extensions and specialized programs out there that work differently, but 99% of the time this will be the way to install fonts.

InDesign is part of the Adobe Creative Suite of programs. I use InDesign daily (I own a small print/copy shop) and would not consider it a graphic design program for creating logos, banners, graphics or even many of today's graphic intense business cards. I use it mainly for brochures, flyers, posters, programs, booklets & text applications. I find InDesign's linking to outside graphics & photos (rather than saving them in the file) to be irritating at times. CorelDraw is my go-to program for design & graphics...... Sue2

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In that case, keeping the outlines definitely makes sense.

Just so others can quickly see, here is your ai as a png, (via CorelDraw):

That tree font like seems like trouble. It certainly is wild looking. But I am not sure it's visibility is great. Also, it looks to be difficult weeding. What the style is trying to say is somewhat subjective. Some might get Wild, others might get Nature, still others Tacky. Space around objects is sometimes good. But the Wild Graphics looks lonely with all that space around it, kind of haphazard. The "poor man's drop shadow," you are using with the text duplicated, behind and re-positioned slightly is an ok effect. But it increases the number of colors you are going to need as you need another color to be a background to provide contrast. There is probably another name than poor man's drop shadow, but it eludes me atm. It is a good idea for logo's to be born in black and white. Say your substrate is white paper. The color of the paper is white and the graphic is black giving you black and white. Think of all the logo's out there that have a black and white version. This makes sure it works in various situations. Adding color can come later. If the basic design is black and white, you can grow from there. The stair step approach you have to vinyl, signs, shirts I think misses. Better to just center I think. Here is a b/w remake using the same fonts I think next to your original, and I DO NOT SUGGEST THIS AS A WORKING LOGO, or even a good one. It is just to illustrate and have a conversation: I used CorelDraw to open the AI file. It might not have done it justice. Financial needs can press one to get all this under one's umbrella as quickly as one can. I have been at this stuff for years and still feel so humble at all the work I see others produce. Designing graphics is a deep field. It is a meld of art, function, philosophy and there are giants that preceded everyone. So it takes some time. Give yourself that time or steal it from someplace. I salute you as it is an adventure just begun. The web is full of discussion on this topic. Here is some food for such thought: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/when-typography-speaks-louder-than-words/ Check these guys out too: http://www.bamagazine.com/Articles.asp?ID=172

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Try a free trial of a commercial option like SignCut Pro. Note though it has a limited cutting area in the trial. If it works, maybe throwing money at the problem is the way to go.

Now that's funny you would say that and I know EXACTLY which one you are probably referring to. I mostly just search over there. Not much use asking a question. They have a large knowledge base though if you can filter the flame throwers. I spent a few hours every night for about 3 or 4 months to get through the course. I don't say that is a required thing but the time spent learning probably wouldn't change all that much.

this year I used what I would have spent on rent for a building to replace the driveway cement and roof. For some a retail place is the way to go. For me it works well working from home.in my town the exposure would bring in some business but I don't think enough to offset how many days I would have to work to pay the overhead each month, I start every month in the black as far as that overhead goes

Do HTV and decals after work, and on the weekends, ebay and etsy mainly. Think it could be a full time job for someone willing to put the work in. Wife and I started selling at the end of january this year and have done more sales than we ever expected. Personally I'd skip the titan 2 start with the graphtec.

cleaning out stuff and my daughter stops over and decides to take the small sample shirt from the sublimation on cotton product on the most irritable cat we have - now who is going to lose a finger or two removing it. by the way she is 24

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