How to make your own decals

[Guest]

Found this https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/publisher/#buy seems to be a new Serif Programme

Seems a rare bargain at £23.

[Guest]

Just add things as I gather info. Ink Jet printers (except for very expensive types) do not print white a great draw back.
(ie white on an Ink Jet is just not printed ie if in normal printing the paper is grey white will be grey, white paper white will be white.)

So if, for instance, you have a decal with a mostly red background & white lettering or detail then the part of the model the decal is to be placed on will have to be painted white.
ie the white paint will be the white not the decal.

Tut my first project was going to be just white lettering. Up the spout :rolling:

Most laser printers do NOT print white. Laser printers are expensive. There are laser jets that can print white.

Found more info. seems with some Laser printers you can get a ghost white toner cartridge. This cartridge is put in place of the black cartridge..
Have to ask what if the decal has black in it. Presumably you juggle the cartridges to suit.

Still interested in producing your own decals :anguished:


Laurie

[Tim Marlow]

That’s not so true these days Laurie, because you can get white decal paper as well as clear. I suppose you could produce your lettering with an outline, then cut them out inside the outline.
You just have to be accurate when cutting out your image :tongue-out3:

[PaulTRose]

That’s not so true these days Laurie, because you can get white decal paper as well as clear. I suppose you could produce your lettering with an outline, then cut them out inside the outline.
You just have to be accurate when cutting out your image :tongue-out3:

or give the letters a black border

[Guest]

That’s not so true these days Laurie, because you can get white decal paper as well as clear. I suppose you could produce your lettering with an outline, then cut them out inside the outline.
You just have to be accurate when cutting out your image :tongue-out3:

Ah things are looking up thanks Tim.

[Guest]

The right one astounding loss of colour PNG.

Does the JPEG include a colour profile while the PNG does not?

As a help just recommend Serif Page Plus.

This is a publication programme. It allows cutting away portions of a photo resizing. Adding text in various forms.

It’s also discontinued, which is why you need to buy it from Ebay if you want a copy. You’d be better off with something like Affinity Photo or Pixelmator if you want an inexpensive photo editor (both 50% off at the time of writing, I notice), or Gimp if you don’t want to spend any money at all. All have the advantage of still being supported and therefore updated.

However, if it’s roundels and plain text you’re after, you would be better off with a vector-image program, like Inkscape, since this avoids any and all problems with scaling, antialiasing, compression artifacts, and what have you that bitmap graphics suffer from.