subject: Preparing Your Amateur Design For Sticker Printing [print this page] Do you want to print your custom picture or image design on stickers? If you do, then you might be interested to know exactly how to prepare your amateur designs for sticker printing. In this tutorial I will teach you how to translate your amateur work to color stickers step by step. Just follow through on the instructions below and you should be well on your way.
1. Get a template and insert your designs First up, get a sticker template. This is the best way to prepare your amateur design for sticker printing. Templates help you to create a design that is easily compatible for most sticker printers, and of course they will guide you in creating the best and optimized layout that many people accept.
You can get sticker templates easily online, typically for free. Look for design blogs, tutorial websites and official sticker printing company portals that offer those templates. Most should have the standard sticker sizes and there should be a template close enough for any kind of amateur design you can produce.
2. Scale and crop properly and precisely Once you have that template, your next step is to basically load up the template in the appropriate application and then start inserting your sticker design elements. One very important note here is that you must scale and crop your image elements properly and precisely.
When you are reducing or enlarging the size of your images, make sure that the proportions are preserved by enabling the feature to keep the image aspect ratio for scaling. This should help you resize the image properly without having it look distorted.
On the cropping side of things, you should try to be accurate with your cropping. Use those special tools for erasing and selecting certain parts of images so that the areas you need removed are indeed cut properly. If you cannot do it yourself, it is best that you try to get help from a professional.
3. Enhance and embed correctly With the design elements properly inserted, do not forget to also enhance and embed those elements correctly. You should always try to improve the brightness and contrast of those images for proper sticker printing. Also, you should embed them properly with the right blending options. Make sure that they look like they are part of the design and not just something that was pasted in. Use filters, border effects and even soft erasing brushes to integrate those elements properly in their place.
4. Add our additional sticker elements With the main image design elements done, you should then of course add your other sticker content such as the text and other extra symbols. Make sure of course that you use the right color and style that integrates them well with the design.
5. Integrate and refine the sticker layouts With all the main elements placed, you should then try to integrate everything and refine your sticker layouts. Try to balance all your design elements so that the stickers look well formed and coherent. You might also want to add a kind of filter for the whole design so that they are integrated properly as one whole. Color filters, and even special artistic filters can do the trick. You can find them typically as a special effect feature in most design software.
6. Do a final test and check Once done, do not forget to do a final test and check for your layout. Check all the text, the images and the settings of your sticker draft file. Have others check it as well so that you do not miss any errors. It is important that everything is perfect so that no mistakes are mass produced in sticker printing.
7. Print stickers through professional firms Finally, you should be ready to print your color stickers. I recommend that you go online for this and hire professional sticker printing companies. There should be the right one for you out there with the right price and the right sticker printing quality that you need. Just make sure that you choose your options precisely and you should be fine.
Great! Now you know how to prepare your designs for sticker printing correctly. It is that simple and you should be turning out great color stickers from your amateur designs in no time.
