Making faded signs on brick walls.
Sign making revisited.
I’ve done a Fast Tracks newsletter about this subject in the past, but I always felt it deserved a bit more attention, and pictures.
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Image Copyright (c) 2006 Tim Warris
The (blue) sign on the side of this building is a bit of an illusion. It looks like a painted on, faded sign, but it is neither painted on, nor faded.
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Image Copyright (c) 2006 Tim Warris
This sign was made by scanning the fully painted and weathered wall, drawing the sign in CorelDraw, combining the two images and then adding a fading effect to the sign allowing the brickwork to show through the sign.
The sign is then printed out, cut from the paper, and glued back onto the wall in exactly the same location as it was drawn in the software.
What you are seeing is not a faded sign, but a picture of a faded sign on the same wall.
I will outline how this process works with this post.
Posted by: | 02-18-2006 | 10:02 PM
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