anyone up for this project??

[hugger19]

i have this set of 1/12 scale decals would like to be made into 1/8 scale stickers for the traxxas funny car. i will send these to you. please pm me if u r up to the challenge i hope someone on here will be. would like to spend no more than $50 to have one set made again if its possible. thanks mike

[hugger19]

really nobody?

[Coelacanth]

Part of the problem is, at least digitally speaking, when you increase the size of something, it will get pixelated and creates artifacting--because the computer has to "guess" what will be in all the new areas of the upsized image. If you wanted to take a 1:8 sticker sheet and downsize it to 1:12, that would be easy-peasy.

I think the only way you could upsize a sticker sheet and have it look as crisp & clear as the original is to re-illustrate the whole sheet or re-do it in vector diagrams. It could probably be done in AutoCAD, but I myself don't have any experience with that.

[R Cane]

To get a nice conversion to vector, it takes a super-detailed, super clean scan of the original. I'll send an example later that I did. It sometimes takes a LOT of editing and tweaking time to get it just right.

[hugger19]

cool thanks

[R Cane]

Ok, so this is the original scan of the decal, at 600 dpi. It looks so-so if viewed at actual size on the screen. Zooming in a good amount shows that there are various colors all over the place...which is what causes issues with the vector conversion process. The edge lines look fairly well defined, but after converting them, it's obvious that the conversion process does not think they are as straight as we do.

Here is the vector conversion saved as an .eps file (off-site because of the size), if you have a graphics program that will read it. With quite a bit of tweaking (not twerking) the conversion settings and merging colors, this is as about as good as it gets from a 600 dpi scan. Because of the simple color scheme, I ran this one as a detailed logo instead of a more complicated image. There are only 3 different colors in the logo, the blue and white of the logo itself, and the pale beige, which is just the backing paper showing through the clear decal material. You can see some anomalies in the scan, such as mid-way down the left side of the P's vertical leg, there is a bump that will need corrected. Overall, many of the originally straight lines have a slight arc, and the corners are not as tight as the original. I haven't done one at a higher resolution yet, will try to do that and post that soon. The file sizes will be a LOT larger and longer to download though.

http://www.amtc.biz/rc_misc/lrp.eps

And finally the vector converted to jpg - for ease of loading into various graphics programs, and huge file size savings, assuming it won't need to be rescaled in the future...can be saved in other formats also, with likely better quality on the edges. I did not fix the above mentioned issues with the lines/corners, as this was just an exercise in the conversion itself. The obvious benefit so far is the color uniformity, but that will be a much harder issue to deal with in images with fading/blending. The simple logos like this one come out, I think, really nice once the line/corner issues are corrected.