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    I could use some help creating a custom speedometer face plate!

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    @ Bucknaked, You are getting there. Just keep playing with those layers and you will manage to create the sticker you want. I do not know anything about motos, but, since this is a sticker, I had a little bit of fun with this thread. However, I found rather hard placing the numbers.

    petols-speed-4f3fe4c.png

    I'm having trouble figuring out layers, when you can create them and can't. when to merge, why i can't rename them etc etc......These took me HOURS of confusion and frustration   lol

    post-146494-0-00255100-1463120199_thumb.

    post-146494-0-78642600-1463120223_thumb.

    I could use some help creating a custom speedometer face plate!

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    Please be not angry, if I not promptly deliver what you want. Resize an image in a layer or invert a black and white picture is really not that hard.

    IRON when you get a chance to make the changes would be appreciated, Thanks,

                                                                                                                                       Buck

    I could use some help creating a custom speedometer face plate!

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    Posted · Edited by Buck Naked

    Here is the version with the signs.

     

    http://workupload.com/file/sanJZaG

    The only change if possible moving the numbers to the outer edge of face plate so they are all in the black and reducing the purple cross to  the inside of the numbers,post-146494-0-15092300-1460520748_thumb.

     

    Also can you reverse the 4 signs so the images in each sign is white or transparent and filling the signs circle in black? See picture attached   post-146494-0-04777200-1460508661_thumb.  

    I could use some help creating a custom speedometer face plate!

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    Posted · Edited by Buck Naked

    Oh, quit your whining already.....

     

    YJoGdyf.png

     

    dipstick   Very nice !! I don't mean to sound like I'm  whining, I just can't figure out this program !!!

    The Pic you created is almost exactly what I am looking for. The only change if possible moving the numbers to the outer edge of face plate so they are all in black and reducing the purple cross to  the inside of the numbers, So no numbers over lap or touch the purple, and make the white areas in the 4 circle indicators transparent but leaving the black images inside of them ?

    Thanks for taking the time to create that  !!!

    Buck

     

    See Image

    I could use some help creating a custom speedometer face plate!

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    Posted · Edited by Buck Naked

    I'm about ready to hang this up, I spend hours night after night with this program and end up with nothing accomplished or learned.

    I have always been a quick study, I don't know whats wrong with me !!  The tutorials are very vague or for advanced users. there are no "for example if your wanting to do this"  It's almost like this program is written in a foreign language (Swahili)

    Thanks to everyone ESPECIALLY IRON for your help but i feel your wasting your time as I am  wasting mine............Right NOW at this moment I admit DEFEAT !!!!

    I could use some help creating a custom speedometer face plate!

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      Ok got it I understand now you have to name each layer, I saw that in the image you created with the bobbed wire, spikes , and numbers, when i clicked on properties all those layers were visible,

    Thanks for telling me the order to create an image I started with the back ground but I became so frustrated I gave up and posted I assume in the right order what I wanted to do, correct?

    When I clicked on http://workupload.com/file/9Iv9vTZT and downloaded it , opened it it Paint clicked on Layer properties it only shows this   attachicon.gifscreenshot.JPG

    Thank you for having patience and sticking with me !!!

    I could use some help creating a custom speedometer face plate!

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    Posted · Edited by Buck Naked

     

    Well ... I sit here in Berlin and can't SEE, how your Desktop looks like. First: You must mark a layer before you can duplicate. Mark means clicking on the NAME of the layer, NOT in the checkbox beside. The checkbox is for toggling the visibility of this layer.

     

    layers.jpg

     

    Here I have a little help maybe for you: a PDN layer file with 3 layers: the cutted original, 4 Lamps only and black edged 6 Holes.

     

    http://workupload.com/file/9Iv9vTZT

     

    And don't forget: You have to sort the layers in the right sequence: lowermost the background image, then (upper) the numbers and so on.

      Ok got it I understand now you have to name each layer, I saw that in the image you created with the bobbed wire, spikes , and numbers, when i clicked on properties all those layers were visible,

    Thanks for telling me the order to create an image I started with the back ground but I became so frustrated I gave up and posted I assume in the right order what I wanted to do, correct?

    When I clicked on http://workupload.com/file/9Iv9vTZT and downloaded it , opened it it Paint clicked on Layer properties it only shows this   post-146494-0-53636900-1459608040_thumb.

    I could use some help creating a custom speedometer face plate!

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    It shows up as 737x729 pixels in size. It's smaller than my recommended 1125px square because its scanned at 200DPI and not 300DPI. Honestly - you'll notice the difference. 

     

    Yes - as long as you save it in a file format which supports transparency like PNG.

     

    Don't assume that. Better to make the area transparent if you want it to be transparent and white if you want it to be white.

    This thumbnail links to the size canvas you should be working with (when viewed at 100%) to get that sized printout at 300DPI - see the yellow borders? Fill those right to the edge.

    http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd309/NonScott/yhsjjie_161.png

     

     I am going to be printing this new custom face plate  on a TRANSPARENCY (clear plastic sheet)

    Is this image better----->

    As far as printing goes printers 97% don't have white ink, there for any white area is clear basically, even if you print on colored paper the white areas will be the paper color I'm pretty sure ?

    I could use some help creating a custom speedometer face plate!

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    There is no "best" format. Each one has advantages and disadvantages. JPEG has no transparency and a lossy compression method but can shrink the filesize. GIF has a limited color palette and only yes/no-transparency, PNG has an Alpha-Channel for variable transparency and so on.

     

    448 kB isn't a large file. Thats all relative and depends on the purpose and software limitations. Images of a 16 Megapixel DSLR like my Canon 60D with 5184 x 3456 pixels as a JPG has filesizes of ~ 5-10 MB.

     

    I save my own creations always as PNG to avoid quality loss. Pictures for the web are in most case JPG, sometimes GIF (espacilly the animated versions), PNG too, but wasting memory space on webservers, if not very small.

    5 hours tonight !!!!  This program is so not newbie friendly, I imported---->

    then I tried to duplicate that layer it did it but have no idea where it duplicated to, I'd click on layer properties the box would pop up and say layer3 where is layder1 & 2 ?

    then i tried to create a new layer NO DICE !!!

    I tried to lay a layer over another so I could make sure it lined up right couldn't do that either !!!

    WHAT PAINT WON;T LET ME ATTACH IMAGES IN IT'S OWN FILE FORMAT WOW !!

    HERE IS what i want, this as the whole background----> post-146494-0-00619200-1459400228_thumb.

    then ONLY the red numbers outlined in black layed on top of the above back ground---->

    Then finally this incorperated on image----->

    That shouldn't be to difficult for someone who knows what they are doing !!OH heres the original image and dimensions----->

    I'm pretty sure I can reduce it down to size before printing on a transparency as long as the finished file size is obtainable by me.......

    THANKS TO ALL WHO TRY THIS PROJECT FOR ME !!!!

    I could use some help creating a custom speedometer face plate!

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    Posted · Edited by Buck Naked

    Here is the original face plate in png @ 300ppi ---- post-146494-0-15320200-1459390204_thumb.

     

     

     

    And here it is with it's value through the program I use to scan with ---- 

     

    Questions: any part of an image that is the grey and white checkerboard will be transparent  correct?

    Any area that is white will also be transparent when it comes to printing it correct?

     

    Thanks

    I could use some help creating a custom speedometer face plate!

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    Yeah, sure. If you have a name of the figure or the artist, its very easy. Or you try it with keywords like "death on a horse". If not (like me), you have to bring it in a meaningful form, so you are able to upload it to Google Image Search (click on the camera icon), so that Google can show you similar images of the image. Then you can download a bigger matching version, search again an find the biggest available version. So I did and here it is:

     

    http://images.forwallpaper.com/files/images/4/43eb/43eb2ade/803961/autumn-background-welshdragon-vigilante-wallpaper-desktop.jpg

     

    Now you can cut out and adjust color.

     

     

    BTW: I have told you that (Spoked Wheel) before, only without link, because searching a named plugin here is very easy.

     

     

    So how old are you? I'm 49.

    I'll be 54 in July............

    I could use some help creating a custom speedometer face plate!

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    First off thanks to IRON67,  dipstick, and Eli 

    for you input and help. dipstick your killing me with your animated version ! let me ask you is that a GIF image?

    To IRON67 is there a particular way of searching for "The" original version ? or just find the largest file ? I'd love to start from scratch but I think I'd be to old to ride my bike by the time I learned each tool their function or functions the definitions and usage for things like Noise, render, palettes, Gradient, elliptical,  and the plethora of plugins and their functions and usages !

    Eli thank you for the spoked wheel plug in !

    To ALL I feel it would take me way to long to create a new image One pixel at a time ?

    HAPPY EASTER !!!

    Feel free to post more images/creations and plug ins........  Thanks to all !

    I could use some help creating a custom speedometer face plate!

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    Posted · Edited by Buck Naked

    WOW How long did that take you 1 1/2 minutes? You obviously used my existing image ?

    I will go back and reread the HELP section and try to understand the software, I don't understand a lot of the terminology and functions, when and where to use them or even how to use them !!!!!!!!!!!!   <--------  I had to use multiple exclamation marks.lol

    So what you are saying is virtually every tool except the text, magic wand, and the color fill work on a per pixel basis sometimes multiple pixels ?

    So the let me ask you this its better to work with your image as large as possible ? make all changes, additions, and alterations before you shrink it back down to the size needed? I'm talking the image not the canvas correct?

     

     

    IRON67  I appreciate the help and time your giving me......... YES image editing at this level is all new to me......

    AGAIN THANK YOU !!!!!!

    speedo.png

     

     BTW I don't spreken the Doitch...........So eventually I'll create a new layer and import an image that I can alter at a pixel level, then I can take y6our image and combine the 2 layers or ?

    I could use some help creating a custom speedometer face plate!

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    Well, it seems that you really new in doing image editing.

     

    Of course you CAN'T edit text (or numbers) after applying to a layer like in a wordprocessor! Paint.net is an image editing software! You edit PIXELS, not chars.

     

    A new bobbed wire you could create with the line tool in some single steps. First you have to create a layer with a circle as a temporary "help- or orientation layer", then you put in another layer a line for the first wire and bring it in a winding form and a second layer for the second wire.

    You can add 3D-like effect for both by applying one of the bevel effects (built-in or as a plugin) and doing the same for spikes on the wires.

     

    My fast example:

     

    wires.png

     

    BTW: All tools work accurate. Maybe you should invest a minimum of time for understanding the software and reading the help instead of use multiple exclamation marks.

     

    In the meantime I've created a more accurate version as a PDN-file. It looks like this:

     

    speedo.png

     

    You can download it here: http://workupload.com/file/RUHuY3WN

    WOW How long did that take you 1 1/2 minutes? You obviously used my existing image ?

    I will go back and reread the HELP section and try to understand the software, I don't understand a lot of the terminology and functions, when and where to use them or even how to use them !!!!!!!!!!!!   <--------  I had to use multiple exclamation marks.lol

    So what you are saying is virtually every tool except the text, magic wand, and the color fill work on a per pixel basis sometimes multiple pixels ?

    So the let me ask you this its better to work with your image as large as possible ? make all changes, additions, and alterations before you shrink it back down to the size needed? I'm talking the image not the canvas correct?

     

     

    IRON67  I appreciate the help and time your giving me......... YES image editing at this level is all new to me......

    AGAIN THANK YOU !!!!!!

    I could use some help creating a custom speedometer face plate!

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    Posted · Edited by Buck Naked

    I have been using Paperport by Scan soft for years but it's really limited, although resizing and changing pixels is unlimited with Paperport. So to answer your question yes I can pull pics with better resolution.

    Question: You said---->Maybe its better anyway to search the right font an make the numbers completely new.

    Ok I probably can do that but I need the curve of the bar * in attachment there's 2 one is in red the other is in bobbed wire, In Paint could I create the bar accurately along with the numbers?

    OK I have just spent the last hour trying to work with Paint !!! I'm frustrated !!!!!!!  was able to create new numbers, but I could get the magic wand to work once, Pick up color, recolor,eraser, paint brush, None would work !! So basically i put new numbers over the old numbers but couldn't edit the old numbers out, why is it that some tools work part time and some not at all ?

    post-146494-0-66602400-1458951661_thumb.

     

     

    FENDER FLUFF :beer:

    I could use some help creating a custom speedometer face plate!

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    Sure you can. But I hope, your original images has a better/bigger resolution/dimension.

     

    First you have to select the red numbers by the magic wand tool with Flood Mode: global and a tolerance of ~45% (try it out). In case of selecting wrong pixels, you can subtract these with another selection (rectangle or Lasso).

    Then you have to copy this and paste it into a new layer or a new image for further editing

    Maybe its better anyway to search the right font an make the numbers completely new.

    I have been using Paperport by Scan soft for years but it's really limited, although resizing and changing pixels is unlimited with Paperport. So to answer your question yes I can pull pics with better resolution.

    Question: You said---->Maybe its better anyway to search the right font an make the numbers completely new.

    Ok I probably can do that but I need the curve of the bar * in attachment there's 2 one is in red the other is in bobbed wire, In Paint could I create the bar accurately along with the numbers?

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