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Looking for some tips and guides on creating a set of Dynastic Glyphs for my growing Necron force. (Sautekh Example)

I was hoping someone here had knew what program would be best to use and how did you get it to the right size for printing and use on your minis?

Edit: To be specific I'm looking to create a transfer sheet of my own symbols similar to comes with citadel minis.

Printing on what?
If paper then what for?
For piece of terrain or a banner?

Best program for designing your own symbol?
I would say (FreeTrial version of Photoshop) if you are familiar with user interface.
Best program for designing your own symbol with low learning curve?
Photoshop is reasonable
Corel Draw is reasonable
ClipStudio is reasonable

All image editing software now have FreeTrial version, so the cost is not an issue.
Plenty tutorials and guides on line how to operate each program, so that should not be an issue.
Each program has rulers built in, you can set your measurements and position your designs.

Or you mean 3D printing?
For 3D I, me self are learning Fusion360 now. Fusion has reasonable learning curve, so far it is solid.

 Mothsniper wrote:
Printing on what?
If paper then what for?
For piece of terrain or a banner?

Best program for designing your own symbol?
I would say (FreeTrial version of Photoshop) if you are familiar with user interface.
Best program for designing your own symbol with low learning curve?
Photoshop is reasonable
Corel Draw is reasonable
ClipStudio is reasonable

All image editing software now have FreeTrial version, so the cost is not an issue.
Plenty tutorials and guides on line how to operate each program, so that should not be an issue.
Each program has rulers built in, you can set your measurements and position your designs.

Or you mean 3D printing?
For 3D I, me self are learning Fusion360 now. Fusion has reasonable learning curve, so far it is solid.

Sorry I should've been way more specific in my post. I meant printing on a transfer sheet to use on infantry and vehicles.

Oh, ok.
I never done something like that before, but imagine it would be similar to printing on paper, provided that the sheets come in standard sizes.

So you would use some sort of image editing software to prep your file in similar way you would prep it for printing on paper.
Use same rulers within the program, prob in mm, to set the scale.
Then print it out on paper to see if the scale is what you wanted, make adjustments and do another test print on paper.

If you want specific help with photoshop, clipstudio, or correldraw, I can help.

Speaking of specialty printing, Have you looked into Hydrographics Film? Might be something of interest.


For decal printing, Doctor got good tutorial



For Photoshop tutorial as well - 6:50mark