Iron on transfer question

[BDuguay]

To all those kool kats that have experience with this method, what  program(s) are you using for the artwork itself?
A boat load of thanks!
B.

[csj]

Hi Brian,
I just keep my eye on pictures that interest me wherever I can find them (in music stores or card shops etc.) Then I'll scan/edit them with the software that came with my Mustek scanner. It's cheap but simple to do. It'll allow you to do lettering too but I don't usually bother with it.  I was going to do a whole Monster Movie poster theme at one time so I collected and edited a bunch. The green one here is of Bela Lugosi and I was going to use it on the Green Ringer but that pedal, when breadboarded, just wasn't what I needed. All these are pics I had finished with the hopes of using after I got the circuits done but when I breadboarded the circuits I didn't find them to my liking.



   




This one was going to be for the Thunderchief.





Anyway Brian, I think my answer to your question is just simply scanning and editing whichever pics strike your fancy and then using cheap editing/graphics software (mine came with my scanner). This will probably bring up a "who owns the artwork" issue and I'm not sure how to answer that. These are all for my own stompbox collection or for pedals I give away. All "one offs". I use each for one pedal only. I don't have any idea how others do but it would be interesting to find out. I like Kerry Maxwell's artwork alot. It would be cool to be able to do a box up with his stuff. When I make one "for profit" (yeah, right ...) I pay a pro artist up front for the artwork just to be safe.

Clay

[BDuguay]

Cool.
What about software/programs that will enable lettering and allow you to import artwork to combine with it?
B.

[MarkB]

Photoshop or anything similar will do the trick.

There are probably some freeware PS ripoffs (on Linux there's 'Gimp'.. not sure if there's a windows version or not).

You can always use MS paint, but it's not ideal (IMO).
"-)

PS - Just looked, and there is a GIMP for Windows
http://www.gimp.org/windows/

[jjs]

I use Paint Shop Pro for editing bitmaps which I want to put on my boxes. For the final design I use Openoffice Draw. It's a vector graphics program like Corel Draw (but its free). With it You can set the position of text and graphics by fractions of a millimeter.

[BDuguay]

Thanks a bunch you guys!
Now, at least. I have a starting point.
B.

[Thomas P.]

Maybe you should try GIMP which is an OpenSource software similar to Photoshop.