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I have to do a lighted sign, 2' x 12' single faced. The face needs to be a digital print of the business name. I have done all kinds of signs but this will be my first full digital print with a black background on a lighted face. I'm thinking of using clear lexan and get the print done...

I was raised to say "Yes ma'am" and "Yes sir" to anyone regardless of age. Also not to speak while an adult is talking (I wish that was still the case with these little brats nowadays). Say "excuse me" even when you didn't do anything wrong. Go to the Waffle House and the waitress calls you...

Check this out. He says he started doing small so people couldn't criticize his work!! Cool stuff. And he doesn't charge by the square foot!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/31/willard-wigans-microscopic-art_n_1724252.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news#slide=1308175

My advice would be to a local sign guy, explain EXACTLY what you told us, you don't know where to start on replacing a sign. Be friendly, have the guy give you a price if he's will to sub it out, add a few dollars to it to cover your time and sell it. You could offer to pay for all the...

Got fed up with DirecTV this week, paying almost $100 bucks a month and have to go through this losing channels every few months, or at least the threat of losing channels. Also losing the signal in bad weather, etc. So I cancelled the service and am looking at other options. Main thing I...

There are many shops that custom build UL listed cabinets for the trade. For the price that you can get a stock size you wouldn't be able to even buy the materials. These guys build dozens in a week. The UL listing is icing on the cake. Here in Georgia there are UL police that travel...

This is how I vectorize a bitmap in Flexi. I run 7.5, I assume the details are the same. Make sure you have fills turned off, so you're looking at the wireframe. This will help you see the steps are working. 1- Use magic wand > select white 2 Bitmap menu > invert selection 3 Bitmap...

Stouse.

Lowe's calls them masonry drive pins. As the pin is hammered in the built in shield flares out, it's super strong but be aware that if you ever have to remove them it will destroy the sheet metal or whatever substrate you have used. I have used them for years for MDO and metal sign...

Cool photoshop stuff http://www.demilked.com/best-photoshop-tutorials/

Check out this website. Has some unbelievable work. It would be great to have a client that says "I don't care what it costs, this is what I want done and when can you start on it!" http://www.demilked.com/20-clever-ads-on-building/

On the computer I'm using now I have Pic and Fax viewer. I'm also running xp home (and no office), so that's not the reason.

My wife's computer doesn't have Windows picture and fax viewer as a list of programs when she's wanting to view pictures. Windows Live Gallery shows as an option but for some reason it won't load her pictures. Any of you gurus able to tell me if it's something that can be loaded or found in...

Enjoy. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/24/most-obvious-headlines-ever-photos_n_1542847.html?ref=mostpopular

I will never, ever forgive Gerber for charging $285.00 for each font!!!!! I remember the first one I saw running back around '91, it was cutting about 1/2" per second but I thought that was the coolest thing I ever saw. A sign friend of mine in a nearby town had a IVE (he paid $7000 for...

I live about 90 minutes from Augusta. A quick Google search will take you to a SignaRama, a FastSigns, and Signs by Tomorrow, all franchises. One of the three should be able to help if she's nervous about just going to a one man operation. She should be prepared to pay a little extra...

I had a customer that did this once about paying with a credit card. I insisted on cash, he went to the ATM and got the cash, I knocked off a few dollars for his trouble and the ATM fees. You could always mention there are all kinds of scams around, especially placing unusual orders with no...

My 7.5 version of Flexi doesn't have any options to export the ai file as a lower version. You export as it is evidently.

Ok, enough of this. I'm working in Flexi, I'm starting to do designs for another sign shop that only has CorelDraw x3. I export the Flexi file as an .ai file and save to my desktop. I then try to import the .ai file into my version of CorelDraw 12 to send to the other shop. But when I try to...

I don't have or use illustrator, but I know Corel Draw has an option if you export a cdr file as an ai file a box comes up asking what ai version to save it to. It goes all the way back to illustrator 88 (I think that's it) then other programs can read it. Whenever I have asked for a file to...