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What font?

I think I would try it both ways in you photo program and let the customer decide.

Old VL is a very capable brush in the right hands, and Iwatas are a smooth as butta, but the parts are expensive. Bang on the pasche for a while and if you like airbrushing and want to stick with it (paint, not bleach) you will love an Iwata!

Looks really good for a first try! I would clean it up a bit more and call it done.

Looks great by the way!

A light scuff with a grey scotchbrite will help with adhesion.

Can you post the file as an eps and i will size it for you. Can't open sbd.

Nice job Preston, is that a redraw?

My next tshirt. Graphic2.eps Graphic2.eps

In the object manager docker right click on the item you don't want moving around (like the bit map in the xtreme example) and choose "lock object"

When you finish your file, export it as an eps file and post it for us to look at. Click the export icon, name the file, choose eps from the options in save a file.

The reason you can't do anything with this image is that it is a gif image (bit map) it is not a vectored image. For this to be an usable image for cutting it will need to be vectorized. It will have to be rebuilt in the vector format, like we were doing with the xtreme image. If you can find the matching font you will not have to retrace all the letters, you simply type them, size them, move them to where you want them and convert to curves.

And it needs a top (clear) coat.

You want it to look like this?

I don't mind doing things for others, but would rather teach you how to do it. Believe me when I started I was very intimidated by coreldraw. But after some playing around and searching youtube for tutorial videos I found out that it wasn't anything to be afraid of. Yes you will have to finish the design, because I have deleted it and I'm not gonna do it over But I have given you a good starting point to launch. You get stuck post an eps of what you have and I'm sure there are others here that will get you through it!

Hope I shed a little light on the vectorizing monster. Jump in, have fun, No fear ctrl+z

Now I right click the bitmap (in the object manager docker) and unlock it and trash it. Combine everything and fill black,or whatever color you like. send to signcut and collect some presidents.

With the contour and the x trimmed, I drag the contour and the duplicate "tre" away and delete those.

Now I select the black contour around the "tre" and the "X" and "trim"

Got a contour I like, now back to the object manager docker, right click on the contour group and select break countour group apart. Now I have the black contour and the duplicate "tre".

Ok, ctrlzd the duplicates back in place and opened my contour docker. I want to apply a contour to the "tre", to the outside. You will have to play around to find the right size contour. Just apply and ctrl+z and adjust untill your are

Ok, now I don't know if you wanted one or multiple colors, so I'm guessing one. I want to create a margin around the "x" and the "tre". I shift click on the t r and e to select them. Hit the + key to duplicate them in place. This creates a duplicate object on top of the original. I right click and combine these three objects. I have filled the objects so it would be easier to see, and switched back to enhanced veiw. I have moved the duplicate so you can see that there are a new set of "tre".

Oh and anyone that knows a better way please feel free to jump in.

Now the "e" can be filled without the center being filled. To fill an object simply select the object and click on the color you want in the color pallette on the right side of the window.

With objects like "e" and "o" where there are more than one object used to make up the object, they need to be "combined" Marquee select or shift+click to select both objects, right click, select combine.