guitardeam0n Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 I need a program to blow up the blueprints for a JEM so i can print it out and use it as a templete. Ive heard corel draw will do it but i need something free. Anyone have any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikbojerik Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 Virtually any graphics program will allow you to draw the guitar-sized image. The problem is printing it out. Large-format printers (available at Kinkos and similar places) give a much better result than cut-&-paste from a regular printer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren wilson Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 I'm sorry, but a GIF is not going to be very useful as a detailed template... it's too low resolution. Blow it up several hundred percent, and you might as well be making your guitar out of Lego. The only way to go is to get a vector drawing (EPS, PDF or DXF) scaled to size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Jabsco Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 yah, i tried blowin up a 5'' x 5'' pic to 1' by 1' and it looked awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAI6 Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 Yeah, if you're saying that you have a .GIF, I'm guessing it's something you pulled off a website. So if you're looking at a pic that's maybe 4"x6" off the web, it's resolution is 72 or 96 DPI. If you need to blow that up to a 12"x18", it will now be around 24-32 DPI. To get a decent print, the image needs the final resolution (after any enlargement) to be at least 300 dpi. If you can get your hands on some vector based program, then you can place your .GIF in a document, and trace the outline of it. Then you can re-size that to whatever you want... Have fun...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardtailed Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 If you have a steady hand, you could always blow up the picture and then trace the contour yourself with a pencil on another sheet of paper placed over it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meegs666 Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 when i found jem blueprints i just got my mother to take it to work and print it with one of those programs. when i got it back it didnt look that bad. it was just a line drawing so it wasnt so bad. the only problem is its off by a few milli and i had to cut and tape all the pieces of paper together. oh btw she only did it at work because its cheaper to use someone elses printer to make a 16 page drawing than use our printer which is hell to buy ink for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaper Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 Just my $.02 here, but I'd just take it to Kinko's... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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