Hi
Can you tell me what programs you's are using for making signs? Editing signs for store fronts, resizing etc.
Thanks
Lynn
Present Layout progress
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/11/p/290127/3372174.aspx#3372174
I use Word for Windows. It has all sizes of letters, lets you set color of letters and background, it will even do a vertical sign, and it has all sorts of different typefaces.
David Starr www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com
For most I use Photoshop. (MS Word also works well.)
(I already had Photoshop thanks to my other hobby, photography. It is quite expensive if using only for model sign making......)
Street signs however.... Software from Evans designs. But that is a different question and thread......
Ricky W.
HO scale Proto-freelancer.
My Railroad rules:
1: It's my railroad, my rules.
2: It's for having fun and enjoyment.
3: Any objections, consult above rules.
Good info guys. This morning although its taken me a couple hours I've managed to download and install some 1920's fonts and got correct font size in ms works and then not realizing ( or not thinking ) I was going to transfer the sign lettering to paint to make a border to fill the background of the sign. Did not know I could possibly do all this in ms works. I use to use photoshop on a daily business and had gotten real good at it, never thought of using this either. So I guess I don't have to run out and buy print shop.
These are fun ....
http://www.signgenerator.org/
Mark.
¡ uʍop ǝpısdn sı ǝɹnʇɐuƃıs ʎɯ 'dlǝɥ
I use Photoshop and or Pagemaker. Pagemaker is better for fonts because image formats can make them look jagged. I make the picture in photoshop and then import it into pagemaker.
Another hint for sharp, crisp signs; print them on glossy photo paper. The edges don't get fuzzy like they do when printed on regular copier paper. Spray the signs with Dullcote to kill the sheen. You'll be amazed at the difference.
Marlon
See pictures of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR
Lone Wolf and Santa Fe I use Photoshop and or Pagemaker. Pagemaker is better for fonts because image formats can make them look jagged. I make the picture in photoshop and then import it into pagemaker.
PageMaker! That is ancient history! Adobe has a new program that replaced it, although I have forgotten it's name. Problem is Adobe no longer sells anything. All of its product is by monthly subscription.
LION is anamoured of the Serif line of products. These are PagePlus, PhotoPlus, DrawPlus and WebPlus. Him this stuff uses for everything. True the list price of the latest is about $100 each ie PagePlus X9; but PagePlus X8 can now be had for about $15. LION has been using Serif products ever since PagePlus 3. (X8 would be Page Plus 18).
I think it shows font sizes down to 4 point, But if you want 2 point type it will do that too, just type it in yourself. LION has some very small warning signs at the ends of the platforms, and they look just liike NYCT signs, unless you actually read them. "No Geese beyond this point" Geese being the deragatory name for passengers. Or how about "Do not piss on the platforms". Nobody has ever caught out these signs yet, becaues nobody can get close enough to read them.
LION osmetimes prints out signs of him on lable paper, makes installation easy. Can also print on clear label medium pretend it is a decal! LION ses the same program to print walls, many buildings of LION are simply printed on paper this way and attached to a styrofoam block.
Serif is located in Nottingham England, Kinda like the Serif of Nottingham!
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Inkscape is free. Being a vector-based program, you can do things with it that you can't do with most other drawing programs, such as manipulating the shape of letters.
https://inkscape.org/en/
In the pic below, all the letters started out like the 'M'. You can change the shape of each one by moving control points around. After typing and selecting your text, go to Path: Object to Path to convert the text to a path that can be edited.
Steve S