View Full Version : "Decals & PhotoShop = Unlimited Possibilities"


CadillacPat
06-28-2008, 08:29 PM
Here's a little more on enhancing your Decal Images and thus your Customs.

In just the last couple of months I see more and more Customizers learning all they can about PhotoShop to create knockout Decal images for their Diecast.

Just today on TV was a clip from a Custom Car show where they were using heatguns to apply full body wrap Decals to real cars.

InkFleet asked about the Fonts I used and their Special Effects.
So,
This is what I mean about being able to slip pictures into a Font.
The possibilities are infinite and only limited by one's imagination.

Here's a Font called GoldenEye007,
In the first picture you see it just as it is in raw form, perfectly flat and solid black.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/CadillacPat/HobbyTalk/CadillacPat-Blk-Web.jpg

Here's a psychedelic pic that I'll insert into the body of the Font using the tools of PhotoShop.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/CadillacPat/HobbyTalk/CadillacPat-Egg-Web.jpg

Here's the finished result further enhanced with some Photoshop features including Bevel, Emboss, DropShadow, Screen and several other visual goodies.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/CadillacPat/HobbyTalk/CadillacPat-Name-Web.jpg

And, the images shown here are of low resolution for Internet transferral.
My Decal images are created and printed at three times this resolution.

Like the guy says,
"Once you learn to change the colors in PhotoShop, Customizing becomes a whole new game".

--CadillacPat the UnCustomizer--
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/CadillacPat/Web%20Sigs/MOFOsignWeb.jpg

camarors
06-28-2008, 08:53 PM
I've got to learn how to do this. I just need to find the time and and patients.

LIGHTNING44
06-28-2008, 08:58 PM
I can do basics, but not that. I think i'm gona start messing around in it to learn some new stuff.