STEP 5: Drawing a line around the image
5: A 1” line is drawn around the image. I use this line
as the border for removing the black-and-white print.
The extra space allows for minor misalignments of
the two runs through the printer.
The next thing to do is to take a straightedge and your
hobby knife with a new blade, and cut along the line
around the image.
Now comes the tracing paper. There are two types
or maybe more, but the two I used were Artist Trac-
ing Paper and Architectural Tracing Paper. The Artist
paper is more opaque, and the Architectural paper is
super-transparent. Both are very thin and delicate. So
here you will have to make a decision. Do I want the
sign just to look old and weathered, or do I want it to
look like it’s fading away? Decide how transparent or
opaque do you want your sign to be.
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