How to Ask for DISigns, Tips, FAQ's & Guidelines

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WELCOME to DIS DISign Addicts!(DDA)
How To Ask For DISigns, DISignTips, FAQ & Guidelines Thread, Part 2
This thread is a place for people to find information about asking for DISigns, printing, saving DISigns or to help new DISigners. It isn’t meant to have all the information, but hopefully it is a place to collect, post and share new information.



REMEMBER – These designs are FREE and they cannot be SOLD or used for profit in ANY way whatsoever!!!!

DISign tips/FAQs Part 1 from 2005 can be found here – http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=892906
Back in May, 2005, the DDA was born. It was originally called the Disney Design Addicts or DDA. By August of 2005 we had our own Forum and Baloo was the Moderator. If you click on the link above it takes you to the original Design Tips post. This posting http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=955688 was the first attempt to organize this forum. Below is the initial posting from this thread.

Welcome to the Dis Design Addicts or the DDA for short!
The new home of the MONSTER thread....It started out with some tie-dyed shirts, and then a few people added designs they had done on their computers. Midnite and Julia&NicksMom ( Kate) started designing logos for people and then many more started coming up with AWESOME designs of their own.
As many of the original DISigners have moved on, this first DISign Tips post became out of date. It was decided to redo the post and begin anew. However, we don’t want to forget those who came before us. Thanks so much for all of the wonderful DISigners who started this board.



FAQ/Guidelines/DISign Tip thread, Part 2
Below is the index for the posts in this thread
• Post 2 – Board & Posting Guidelines
• Post 3 – How Do I Request a DISign?
• Post 4 – What software program do you use?
• Post 5 – Where do you get your clip-art, logos & wallpaper?
• Post 6 – Where do you get your fonts and how do you install them?
• Post 7 – DISign Tips
• Post 8 – Making a Name in a Picture – Under Construction
• Post 9 – Making a DISign In Photo-Impact
• Post 10 – Making a DISign in MS Word
• Post 11 – Photo-Sharing Sites – Under Construction
• Post 12 – Printing your DISign – Under Construction
• Post 13 – Making a T-Shirt, Ironing on the Transfer
• Post 14 – Tie-dyeing Shirts – Under Construction
• Post 15 – Making an Autograph Book
• Post 16 – How to Make - Miscellaneous
• Post 17 – Scrapping Information – Under Construction
• Post 18 – What Do You Make For Your Vacation?
• Post 19 –
• Post 20 –

To keep it from getting to 200 pages (which limits its use), it’s going to be a locked thread. If you would like information added to the thread, PM me and I will include it.

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Board & Posting Guidelines
Here’s a link to the DisBoards.com Guidelines http://www.wdwinfo.com/guidelines.htm

I have posted the most relevant ones to our forum below. A few guidelines to remember when posting on the DISboards:

To address the question about Commercial Links, see the guideline below.

1. FOR SALE: For sale ads are strictly prohibited on any of the DISboards. Anyone posting such ads will have their post deleted. This same policy applies to links to your eBay/auction listings . "For sale" posts include requests for donations (see below). In addition, "Vote for me" posts are not permitted on the DIS. This includes requests for support in an online contest, sweepstakes, lottery or other event designed to yield personal gain.

7. ADVERTISING: The advertisers/sponsors who you see on the DIS are carefully chosen. While we welcome discussion of them as well as other businesses that you have information or questions about, if its determined that you are using the DIS to promote a commercial venture, you will lose your posting privileges. This includes choosing a username/signature that refers to your business. In addition, links to the company's website will be blocked. Also note that we do not want the boards to be used for solicitations or for requesting referrals. Requests for advertising can be directed to Corey@wdwinfo.com for consideration.

10. LINKS TO OTHER SITES: You are welcome to link to your web site on our boards provided that a) you are not promoting a commercial service or for-profit venture, b) you don't post primarily to promote your site and c) that you place one of these images on the home page of your web site. Before posting a link to another site, we ask that you please first check to see if the same information is available on www.wdwinfo.com.
Please remember that you agreed to these guidelines when you joined. For those in the Creative DISign forum this means:
· you can not include a link to a blog (or otherwise show) that has a link to your for profit store in your signature or post
· when posting a DISign it should not be linked back to a place that is part of a store or have any stores/designers listed in the credits
· you can provide information about places to find good deals/sales and such as people ask for information and you find it as long as you are not a member of a design team or designer for that store
· you may provide links to places that have freebies and no items for sale - if they have items for sale then the freebies are for advertising and links to them will not be allowed (this includes links to digital sites and eBay sites)
· Violations of the above rules can result in consequences including loss of signatures, loss of ability to send or receive private messages, or even temporary or permanent revocation of your membership here.
· These guidelines will be enforced by the moderators will the full support and agreement of the webmasters. Any questions or complaints about our site guidelines should be addressed to the webmasters at admin@wdwinfo.com.

#12 Signatures

• Your signature will be limited in length. Our forum software will do this automatically and anything over the allowed length will be cut off.
• You will be limited to a total of 25 images and "smilies". The forum software will handle this automatically.
• All content and links must meet DIS board posting guidelines. Signatures have the same content rules as any post on the boards.
• We reserve the right to remove or modify signatures that cause issues with the boards or slow page loading. Please make sure any images in your signature are hosted on a reliable site. Any signature that contains malicious or harmful code will be removed immediately and the poster
• sanctioned.You may include your eBay or Etsy username in your signature, in plain text, as in this example: (eBay: myeBayname etsy: myetsyname) Any bolding, linking or additional description or embellishment will be considered advertising, and is not permitted.

Love To Scrap put together a great thread called DISboards FAQ's, including POSTING PHOTOS and FINDING YOUR POSTS. It can be found here http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1760755

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How do I request a design?
There are several DISers who are more than happy to help with a design. The best place to start in the Meet The DISigners Sticky. Look through the different designers, find a designer that you like and determine if the designer is still creating or modifying designs. If they are, click on their thread and follow the directions listed. Some important things to know
· Read the first page in the designers thread. They normally tell you how they want you to handle the request. Some designers want private messages, some want postings in their thread and others might prefer an email. Please follow their directions if you want them to design or personalize. It is frustrating for a designer to spend a lot of time posting how they can best meet your needs and then have the requester ignore their requests.
· If a Designer has a website, go through their website. You might find that a design you want personalized has already been personalized. I recently did some autograph pages for “Catherine” and another requester wanted the same design with the name Catherine.
· Please do not request the same design from multiple designers – they have a lot of requests and do not want to be duplicating each other’s work – in addition – it can take a while to design a custom shirt and asking two people to design a shirt and only choosing one is wasting the other designers time. If someone is found asking for the same design in two different threads, the designers may decide to not customize/finish the design.
· If you want several DISigners to work on a request, post the request in a new thread.
· If you want something you haven’t seen in someone’s thread, start a new thread. Carefully describe what would like and more than likely someone will see your request and respond.
· AND - Please be patient! Sometimes it takes awhile to finish a design. Many of the DISigners have families, jobs, other outside interests, and they are not at their computer all day, every day. If you ask a designer for something personalized or customized, they will respond to you if they are not going to do it. If you need the DISign quickly let the DISigner know and if they can’t do it quickly they will tell you. If you find that you do not want to wait, please cancel your request with the original DISigner before you ask someone else (they may be ready to post it)!

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What software programs do you use?
• Photoshop is a great program but costs close to $1,000
• Photoshop Elements is a step sister to Photoshop. The current version (Photoshop 8) is under $100 with older editions going for much less.
o Here’s a link that compares Photoshop & Photoshop Elements. http://www.graphic-design.com/Photos..._elements.html
o Photo Impact is a good program & is under $100 and older versions have been found for $29.99 during sales

Photo Impact Information – You can download a 30 day free trial
• Here are some links to Photo Impact tutorials:
o http://wwell.net/
o http://pircnet.com/
o http://www.eastofthesun.com/
• You can find directions on how to make a DISign in PI in post 9.

Top two Photo Impact questions
• I can't select my image to edit it – what am I doing wrong?
o To edit an image – you will need to make sure it is a layer and not the base object:
o Click on the picture
o Choose cut
o And paste it either back onto the original image or into a new document – you will then be able to select the object for editing
• How do I erase a background?
o select your item
o on the left of the screen is a toolbar - there looks like what appears to be an eraser - when you click on its arrow - it says object magic eraser
o if you choose this - it erases all of one color - so if your background is white - boom done!
o you can choose different degrees of matching - so you can get all shades of blue - but be careful if it matches something in what you want - it will be erased
o The easiest way to learn photo impact is to take an image and just start trying all the different effects

Photoshop Tips
• First of all, use layers, use layers, use layers!!! What's a layer, you say? It's just what it says it is. They are transparent layers (until you put something on them), one on top of the other. The beauty of it is you can put something on a layer and the move it around or manipulate it with Filters or Effects without effecting the other layers in your work!
• Use Guides, also. When you're moving your objects around, use guides for easy alignment.
• Layer masks are very useful. When you have an object on a layer (clipart, text, shapes) you can use a layer mask to erase or hide parts of that layer without actually erasing your object.
• Play with the effects on text and shapes to see what each one does.
• Also, play with the filters on photographs. Try to learn what kind of result you can get by playing with the filter settings (sliders) and by combining two or more filters.
• Above all, learn these two words: "photoshop tutorials" Use them well, use them often -- in your favorite search engine. Everything I know about Photoshop, I've either learned online, in a book, using the Help Files (F1 key on your keyboard when you are using Photoshop), or by playing with the settings.
• Photoshop Tutorials – http://www.photoshopsupport.com/, http://graphicreporter.com/
• Here is a thread for making stars in Photoshop. http://www.disboards.com/showthread....1#post24887931

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Where do you get your clipart? by J&NMom
· You can do an image search using Yahoo! or Google
· Or do Ask Jeeves http://images.ask.com/pictures?q=Disney+Wallpaper&qsrc=6&o=0&l=dir&ni=
· Click on the images search tab: and type in what you are looking for
· The more specific you are – the less likely you will get good results – start with a basic description and then narrow it down
· Small images will not work well in your design. I think an image usually needs to be at least 300 pixels to enlarge well. The bigger your image, the easier it will be to modify.

A current list of Disney clipart sites:
http://www.disneyclips.com/ - one of my favorite sites for character clipart gifs. It’s updated regularly.
http://clipart.disneysites.com/ - Good site for gifs. Many to chose from.
http://disney.satarma.com/clipart.html - Clip art of movie & park characters. Includes some holiday clipart.
http://disney-clipart.com/ another site for character & holiday jpgs, gifs, coloring books, animated gifs and fonts.
http://disney.go.com/desktopstop/downloads.html?section=wallpapers&character=snowwh ite&filename=snowwhite_wp_03_1024.jpg&cn=40
http://disney.go.com/desktopstop/characters/mrtoad/wallpapers.html
http://disney.go.com/desktopstop/viewall/viewall.html - Disney’s site – above are two from the Disney site. Each character has a link for wallpaper, screensavers and icons.
http://i-love-disney.com/ clipart, downloads, holidays, printables and fonts.
http://jillsmickimouse.tripod.com/jills2.htm - some good holiday gifs on this site.
http://disneyuniverse.net/index.htm A great site for wallpaper, games, coloring pages and more.
http://www.angelfire.com/fl5/disney/clipart.html Disney park & movie character clipart. Includes some park logos.
http://www.disneypix.com/Disney Pix(photos) is divided into 11 sections including Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, Recreation, Resorts, Characters, Transportation, Multimedia, California and Extras!
http://www.disneypix.com/Desktops/Desktops.shtml Some high resolution, various sized, great Wallpaper/Desktop/ background shots. Also includes photos of rides that have closed.
http://freedisney.ezthemes.com/pcenhance/spotlight.phtml?Disney – A wonderful site for Disney Wallpapers, Screen Savers, Desktop Themes, Stationary, etc.
http://www.talkdisney.com/photo/showgallery.php?cat=528&thumb=1 A Discussion board. You have to register to view their clipart.
http://www.tripletsandus.com/disney/art.htm - clip art of characters from the parks and some Disney movies.
http://www.greeting-cards-4u.com/platinum6/pictures/images/Tubes/Disney/Page0003Disney.html Mostly Disney character gif clipart.
http://knowingtheworld.com/clipart/disney/index.html limited by has some nice Walt Disney gifs, Mickey clipart and graphics.
http://www.wondersofdisney.disneyfansites.com/frontdoor.html - - includes Disney clipart, black & white clip art, Disney Babies, Pooh & friends, fonts, stationary, coloring pages and learning pages.
http://lnx.ginevra2000.it/Disney/index.htm- A great French site. Has clip art, coloring pages, music & words from some of the movies, great wallpaper to use for backgrounds and coloring pages.
http://mundodisney.net/escritorio/A French site with some great backgrounds. There is an annoying pop-up, which you have to close every time you open a page.
http://www.merveilleux.ca/ - Another French site with lots of great stuff.
http://www.merveilleux.ca/winnie/winnie.htm French Winnie the Pooh
http://www.merveilleux.ca/princesse/princesse.htm Princesses
http://www.disney-archive.com/goodies.php - French site with gifs, wallpaper and clip art.
http://www.boolsite.net/wallpapers/DessinsAnimes/Winnie
http://outnow.ch/Movies/Bilder/W/2 - A German site with wallpaper from a few Disney Movies.
http://www.disney-archive.com/galeries.php - Another French site. Has old model sheets, cel art & original movie illustrations.
http://disney.dolmagic.cn/download/index - A Chinese site with some great Wallpaper.
http://www.disney.co.jp/download/mickey_friends/index.html Another Chinese site with great Wallpaper.
http://www.disneylatino.com/Downloads/index-flash_w.html A Disney Latino Site with
http://www.thewallpapers.org/cartoon/index.php - Lots of Wallpaper
http://www.freecomputerwallpapers.net/disney_wallpaper-desktop-wallpapers.html Disney Wallpaper
http://www.puzzleheaven.co.uk/cart_kids_page4.html this is a site for Disney puzzles. However, if you click on the puzzle, it comes up as a large size wallpaper.
http://disney.fredscorner.nl/disney_wallpapers.html - Disney Wallpapers
http://www.disneythemes.com/index8.shtml - Disney Wallpapers
http://www.disneyclips.com/freestuff/desktopdreams.html - Disney Wallpapers
http://www.freecomputerwallpapers.net/disney_wallpaper-desktop-wallpapers.html
http://www.myfreewallpapers.net/sitemap/sitemap-cartoons.shtml - Disney Wallpapers
http://www.startedbyamouse.com/gallery/wallpaperarchive.shtml - Interesting wallpaper
http://www.startedbyamouse.com/gallery/wallpaperarchive.shtml - Disney Wallpapers
http://www.tinkerbellstreasures.fabpage.com/tinkbg.html - Disney Wallpapers
http://www.boolsite.net/wallpapers/DessinsAnimes/Winnie - Disney Wallpapers
http://www.signedrock.com/catalog_search.php?p=1&cat=1&id_sub=0&id_nivel_pad re=1&id_nivel3=100 – A collection of animation art cells and lithos. Pictures aren’t that large.
http://www.manyfreewallpapers.com/movies-wallpapers/ – Movie wallpaper
http://www.freemoviewallpapers.org/ – Free Movie wallpaper, including Twilight & new Alice
http://www.fanpop.com/ Wallpaper & Photos. Go to the main page, then to movies, choose the movie you want and then hit wallpapers, photos, icons or fanart.
http://www.fanpop.com/spots/disney/wallpapers/7 - Disney Wallpaper
http://www.fanpop.com/spots/alice-in-wonderland-2010/images/10573744/title/alice-wonderland-line-drawings Black & White Line drawings
http://www.disney-desktop-wallpaper.com/– A great Disney Desktop Background Wallpaper site.
http://disney-stationary.com/ - Disney stationary
http://fliiby.com/search.php?q=disney%20cartoon%20image%20photo&mode =All&type=&page=3 Fliiby search engine (one I hadn’t heard of). Click on one of the photos and most will be large enough to use as a background.
http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/alice2d.html - Clip art from the Disney cartoon Alice in Wonderland and illustrations from the book.
http://celsandsetups.blogspot.com/
this one and the one below are created by the same person. This link has some cel pictures. Most are not large enough for wall paper.
http://animationbackgrounds.blogspot.com/ Animation backgrounds. Some are large enough for wallpaper.
http://www.carsdriveingallery.com/index.html - The Cars Drive In Gallery is a reference website for Cars 1:55 scale diecast. Includes pictures of the characters from the movie.
http://www.thegremlin.com/posters_children.html - I love this one. Unfortunately, as these are examples of prints the company has for sale, most are not very large. But there are some vintage ones here.
http://www.thegremlin.com/lobbycards1.html - Another great Art for sale site. Includes Lobby cards, publicity stills, original watercolors,
http://www.disneyclips.com/funstuff/coloringbook.html Coloring book pages.
http://www.tracemaesthemeland.com/ Princess & Pooh wallpaper, includes holiday wallpaper. Also has Nascar.
http://disneypixsite.com/ - Beautiful pencil drawings from the early Disney movies.
http://www.mickey-mouse.com/mickeyclipartmain.htm Lots of Mickey jpgs, gifs & wallpaper.
http://www.weatherfish.com/disneyweirdyears.html - The Disney Weird Years: the forgotten Animated Features of the 40’s – has pictures from these movies in smaller resolution.
http://www.disneyonlineworlds.com/index.php/Pixie_Hollow_Downloads - Lots of Pixie Hollow Clipart & Background.
http://www.ohjohnny.net/alice/alicenews17.html - New Alice Wallpaper & News
http://www.disneyonlineworlds.com/index.php/POTCO_Downloads - Pirates of the Caribbean downloads.
http://www.disneyexperience.com/customize/wallpaper/paper1.php - Wallpaper
http://retrogoth.50megs.com/ Nightmare before Christmas Characters and clipart. Mostly gifs.
http://www.stitchkingdom.com/disney-news/movies/new-stills-from-the-princess-and-the-frog-added-to-gallery/ - Princess & Frog Wallpaper.
http://www.rabittooth.com/StarWarsWallpaper.htm Star Wars Wallpaper
http://www.cyberzeus.com/swdesktop/wallpaper.html Star Wars Wallpaper
http://www.starwars-union.de/index.php?id=ffwallpaper – German Star Wars Wallpaper
http://mojoart.mixnmojo.com/original-art/wallpapers.shtml - Star Wars Wallpaper
http://simonz.co.hu/wallp_eng.html - Star Wars Wallpaper

Logos
http://www.logotypes101.com/xt_logos.asp?txtSearch=disney%20&vt=Search
http://www.logotypes101.com/xt_logos.asp?Page=2&vt=Search&txtSearch=mickey&c=
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Disney_logos
http://www.mickeysplace.xpg.com.br/logos.htm


Additions
http://www.disney.com.hk/downloads/index_new.html

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Where do you get your fonts and how do you install them?
What is the name of the Walt Disney World font? Walt Disney Script

You can download free fonts from these sites:
http://www.dafont.com/
http://mickeyavenue.com/
http://mickeyavenue.com/fonts/disney-fonts-list/
http://www.disneyexperience.com/customize/fonts.php
http://i-love-disney.com/downloads/disney-cartoon-fonts/
http://wondersofdisney.webs.com/disfonts/fonts.htm
http://moorstation.org/typoasis/pirates/index.htm Pirate Fonts
http://famousfonts.smackbomb.com/

And if you ever need to match a font, scan it in, go here:
www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ or here: www.identifont.com/

Directions for Downloading a font
How do I download a font?

1. go to one of the sites listed above
2. Pick a font you want to download and click Download/ pc/ mac OS X (IN picture)

3. Click open then Extract all files (In pictures)


4. Follow the "Win Zip" instructions
5. Click Start at the bottom of your computer screen
6. Click control panel (A link in your start menu)
7. Click "appearances and themes"
8. Click fonts (on the left hand side bar)
9. Click your extracted file (otherwise known as a font) and drop it into the "font" folder
10. You have now successfully downloaded a font!
Or

• Go to your Fonts folder (either by going to Control Panel/Fonts or by going to C:\Windows\Fonts) and then using File then Install New Font.
• Navigate to where you unzipped the font. Then select the font(s) [you can use Select All] and click OK.
• Alternately, you can move the font directly into the Fonts folder by copying and pasting. I find I have problems sometimes with it installing correctly sometimes, however. So normally I do the "install font".

Then use whatever program you want to make your design in and select the font from your options.