PirateNate
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These 2 are quick and dirty trophy discs.
This one is my favorite dye I have done. It's a Neutron Envy using iDye Poly black, crimson and red.
Cutting and weeding was awful at the time, but well worth it.
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The Dye A Day Thread! (Part II)
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These 2 are quick and dirty trophy discs.
This one is my favorite dye I have done. It's a Neutron Envy using iDye Poly black, crimson and red.
Cutting and weeding was awful at the time, but well worth it.
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These 2 are quick and dirty trophy discs.
This one is my favorite dye I have done. It's a Neutron Envy using iDye Poly black, crimson and red.
Cutting and weeding was awful at the time, but well worth it.
Love the lips.Very nice job!
lowracks
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Starsiege Tribes dye for groomsman on white Star Vulcan.
hell yeah. best game ever.
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So I got my plotter a few days ago and I gotta say I don't think I'm gonna miss hand cutting stencils anymore. Haha! The first one I did with the plotter was the Ghostbusters logo...wanted to do something quick and easy on the first try, then I decided to go a little more intricate on the second one which is the Sublime skull. I'm gonna have lots of fun using this thing.
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Anybody know of a good tutorial that helps me go from a jpeg file to a vector to having an image prepped to cut? I am using a Roland BN-20 and can use illustrator/photoshop/indesign. (Although I am not well versed in any of them). Thanks!
In any decent design software, you should be able to find something with "Trace" in it; Illustrator is "live trace" I think, but find in your program something with "trace" in it through your help files. Usually located within the "path" tree. You want to take a flat image and turn it into a path for the plotter to follow/cut.
Make sure your image is high contrast, or adjust in your software trace settings.
If you're skilled in Illustrator, you may prefer(and often need) to trace your paths manually with the pen tool.
Not exactly sure what you mean, but the plotter only cares about paths. If you don't have a path for it to follow, the plotter will do nothing.
Think of it this way: Plotter's don't see pictures; they see paths for the blades to follow, and we see those paths as creating an image.
If you're using Illustrator and aren't sure if you have paths in your file after tinkering around, hit ctrl+Y for a path view/ outline preview.
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/how-to/illustrator-understanding-paths.html
Bennett has you on the right track, Bamm. Illustrator's Live Trace is pretty good and will probably suit your needs. I don't do a whole lot of dyes but I do "re-vector" logos and vectorize raster images quite a lot. In my opinion, the best software out there for this type of work is Vector Magic (http://www.vectormagic.com.) While it is a bit on the expensive side of the spectrum, especially just for dye work, it gives you quite a lot more control and much cleaner results than Adobe's Live Trace feature. It might be worth looking into.
In the end, nothing beats knowing how to create from scratch. Kinda like knowing how to hand-cut before you get into plotter-cutting. The Live Trace function is nice and the software can sometimes do a lot for you, but nothing beats knowing how to work with paths, either building from scratch or fixing the pieces that the tracing function in your software can't seem to get right.
My first "image" dye. I've done the brainwave stuff and shaving cream stuff but this is my first hand cut image. I had an issue with the vinyl and it caused some bleeds. I tried to salvage it with the crazy colored shaving cream background. It kinda worked. Learned a lot, the next will be better.
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Absolutely! I've been using illustrator since '88 so I'm not unfamiliar with creating vector art. Learning it can take a while but the knowledge gained will benefit you greatly. Vectorization software can drastically speed up the time needed though.
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Very cool, Bamm! I really dig the vibrant SC background!
Thanks! My intent was to leave the actual storm trooper part of the image white and have the background s/c dyed. But then the bleeds happened. The s/c dye just allowed them to kinda blend in. Oh well.
That moment when you wish Rit still took to plastic.......
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