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Originally Posted by astral highway
David, the more I look at it, the more I'm intrigued by the quality of your water-slide transfer! It looks amazing.
How do you do the artwork and the rest of the process? Have you put a link on your write up of this previously?
I'd love to start practicing!
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It's kind of you to say so Al, but my CAD skills are very limited and the transfer I created was done by using MS Paint (which MS would like to kill off and probably will). It comes bundled with Windows. The transfer is quite basic - just a few straight lines, segments of circles at the corners, a couple of circles for the switch button hole, a coloured border and background, with some added text. I don't hold myself out to be an aficionado of water-slide transfers, I just like to make my home-brew projects look as presentable as I can.
There are countless 'PAINT' tutorials on youtube.
I also designed and created the artwork for the PCB for this project using 'PAINT' - I dislike PCB creating CAD packages such as easy-PC as the layouts tracks and pads don't lend themselves to amateur production and aren't really intended to - they're to send the artwork to a PCB Pool for commercial production. (I don't understand 'Gerber files', I don't want to and I don't need to).
I also use an ageing version 'Photoshop Elements' ('Elements 7', from 2008).
There have been several threads on the forum on creating and applying water-slide transfers (or 'decals' as they tend to be known, which is the American term for them). The paper is available in white and clear, and for ink-jet and laser printers. My experience is limited to ink-jet.
Here are a few recent threads to which I and others have contributed, which cover the creation and application of transfers, and sources of materials, which might be of interest:
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...lide+Transfers
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...lide+Transfers
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...lide+Transfers
Hope that's of help.