Can someone point me in the right direction to make my own custom decals for my layout? I bought the model train software from Evans desings and can Import stuff but still do not know how to make my own. Can someone give me a helping hand. Thanks!
I am not familiar with Evans designs software, what is it supposed to do?
Could you give us a bit more information on what you need help with. What software are you using to draw the artwork with? What are you going to print them with?
I personaly use Adobe Illustrator to do my decal design. Other use this as well as Corel Draw. These are both vector based drawing programs.
I wrote a short tutorial on what is involved in making decals.
http://www.dansresincasting.com/custom%20decals.htm
It is not a complete tutorial on making them, but gives people an idea of what is involved.
Dan Pikulski
www.DansResinCasting.com
[#ditto] Don’t know about Evans design, I use Paintshop Pro, I use an Epson photo printer for printing my decals. I find design items I want to incorporate off the web, I take photos of prototype items, Draw lots of stuff freehand within Paintshop. Just get the correct paper for the type of printer you’ll use. Follow Dans tutorial and you’ll be ok.
If you look in my vehicle section of my photobucket site, almost all the trucks are decals tha I made, as are the decals on my private RR. locos. Good luck.
I don’t have any of those programs. All I use is MS Paint and Testor’s decal maker. Many times my decals are copied from web sites. Other times I make the myself. I print them out on onion skin paper, cut them out and apply them with white glue. I make all my decals this way and most people can’t tell the difference until they make a close inspection. There’s nothing hard about making your own decals.
Evans design is a model train software decal program. they have burma shave signs and some advertising signs, but I’m looking to make my own advertising signs. The only printer I have is an inkjet. are the adobe products expensive? Thanks for the help
I use an inkjet myself. An HP 3322. It gets the job done.