What Does YOUR DCL magnetic door sign look like? With other great tips for your sign

[tokyodisneydad]

Tokyodisneydad: I love your Name signs. I have been trying to figure out how you did that to get the pictures in the letters. I have looked through at least 40 pages of this thread, and have done google searches, but can't find it. Is this something that you made yourself or is there a font for it? Thanks so much!

A friend of mine actually made these for me, not sure how he got them so clear and perfect. I do know the instructions above for inserting pictures using word works though. I just could never get them as clear as my friend;s version.

 

[nursetanya1973]

Here are the directions to make word art using pictures. Hope this helps. It is post number 2290.

Thank you so much1 I tried everything that I could think of besides reading each and every page (which I am trying to do, by the way), but I couldn't hit on the right search words.

Unfortunately, I don't have Word, but I am going to keep searching and playing with Photoshop to try to figure it out.

Thanks to you and Tokyodinsydad for answering so quickly.

 

[cmacf1]

Nursetanya --

I was wondering the same thing as you several weeks ago (about how to get the pictures into the letters of a name.) Somebody directed me to the "Creative DISigns" section of disboards.com. You can find it if you scroll down when you first go to Disboards.com (below the cruise sections almost at the very bottom of the home page.) Open up "Creative DISigns" and you'll find designers who actually will do name signs for you out of the goodness of their hearts. Amy is one of the designers who does names. Pat also does names and there are several others who also do the names. They also have a HUGE amount of other designs that they have created.

I will warn you though -- it is TOTALLY addictive looking at all the designs and imagining what your door on the cruise could potentially look like. My DH thinks I've gone off my rocker because I'm spending so much time finding designs, requesting designs from the very generous designers and tweaking my own designs and printing all these things out on my now overworked printer.

You'll be amazed by the creativity of our fellow disboarders!

Cathy

 

[yndygo]

Thank you so much1 I tried everything that I could think of besides reading each and every page (which I am trying to do, by the way), but I couldn't hit on the right search words.

Unfortunately, I don't have Word, but I am going to keep searching and playing with Photoshop to try to figure it out.

Thanks to you and Tokyodinsydad for answering so quickly.

I can walk you thru it in photoshop ifyou'd like.

1) First, create a rastar layer that is the picture you want inside the letters
2) Select your text tool and click anywhere near the middle of the picture - this will create a new "vector" layer with your letters on it. create the type and shape and size letters you want with the pics in them - don't worry that there's 'ink' in the letters, we'll get rid of it later - just go for size. Once the vector object of the letters is on the layer, it should be highlighted - move it around and resize it as necessary to get the letter shapes you want - in order to see the picture behind them, you can even click on the little "eye" icon over where the layer palette is, and temporarily 'hide' the letters themselves - but still see what is outlined.
3) When you have the letter shapes you want, where you want them, right-click on the vector object (indented under the layer) that has the word/name there and select "create raster selection"
4) Select the original picture layer by clicking on it in the layer palette.
5) in the menu above choose Selections/Modify/Invert
6) Hit your delete key - this will get rid of all of the picture parts that *aren't* outlined by the letters.
7) select the vector layer and either hide it or delete it altogether - you now have a raster layer of letters with pictures in them.

HTH

 

[nursetanya1973]

Thank you so much to everyone! I did not figure out the photoshop one on my own, but I will try again now that I have directions. I did find that Amy had several of our names already (well, I had to modify a little), so that was a help as well.

Thanks again, I'll let you know if I get it to work.

 

[cmacf1]

After I wrote that post to nursetanya last night, I decided that I would be able to follow instructions to make my own names and it worked!! I had NO idea I could actually do it myself. I ended up doing it on Power point, not Word. I couldn't get it to work right on word. I did find that I had to find a picture that had LOTS of Disney characters and I cropped it so that all the outer edges were gone. And I found that if the name was too long for the picture I had chosen, I had to do a few of the name's letters and get the picture into the letters, then do the remaining letters. It worked great!!! I was up until the wee hours making names and now I need my caffeine to keep me going this morning

Now I'll have to attempt the photoshop instructions. Thanks for all the help on this!!!!

Cathy

 

[nursetanya1973]

OOPS! I have been fighting with this for a little while and just realized that I have Printshop not Photoshop. I am not usually this Dingy, but sometimes the similarities in all these names makes it hard to remember.

So I sicerely thank you, maybe someone else will be able to make good use of your directions.

 

[nenner1]

Here are some pictures of our door from our latest cruise....

Most of the designs were done by Pat from the Creative DISigns forum. I did do the Atlantis collage, which didn't come out as well as I'd hoped, but we planned this cruise on short notice so I didn't have a lot of time to spend creating magnets this time around.

We did however, have the distinction of being the most decorated door on our cruise! Woo-hoo!

 

[ReAnSt]

Here are the signs from mine and my brothers Back 2 Back Magic cruise in September.

 

[Tink rules]

Can you please post a link to the creative dis section?

Thanks!!!

 

[cmacf1]

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1363902&page=148

This is one of Pat's pages. THere are lots of designers who will kindly personalize any of their designs! They're great (the designers and the designs!) Watch out, though, because I've become completely addicted to these designs!

 

[Tink rules]

thanks much!!!

 

[ranidayz]

here's my friend Maria's design that you guys asked for..

Thank you so much - I love it! What is the proper way to credit this design?

Thanks!

 

[cmacf1]

I am just learning how to make these magnetic signs AND how to use photobucket AND how to post a photo on disboards. Let's hope that this worked

and here's the one I made for my MIL and her friend:

Does anybody know if that's how one would spell the word 'lady' made plural and possessive?? Any grammar teachers out there?

I'm not sure where these porthole images come from, but I believe I got them from designers on the Disney Disigns section of disboards. Just want to give credit.

 

[cmacf1]

Now that I see that really worked, here are a few more (I am working on improving my Word Art skills):

oops wrong room number! I have tranposed some numbers.

(these Matryoshka's or nesting dolls were created by Pat on the DISigner's disboards section,) but I added the names.

I see that this is really going to be monopolizing my time now that I know how to do it!!!

 

[cmacf1]

Since I seem to have gotten the hang of this and I have all these signs just burning holes in my computer, here are a few more:

I LOVE this one!!!! Pat, a DISigner on the Creative DISigns threads made this:

Pat also made this design. I asked her to use her creativity to come up with a design for the group of adoptive families I am cruising with. All of our kids are from RUssia and we wanted a sign that showed our kids' Russian heritage and also had to do with the cruise. She did a GREAT job!

Pat and another DISigner named CarolinaGirl made these Stick figure families for me (my daughter really only wants to wear blue, so one of the signs was made with her wearing blue):

Finally, here are a few names that another DISigner named Amy made for me:

I won't be putting any more signs on the board tonight -- I need to get away from this computer!!!

 

[cmacf1]

Here's one more (Little Bit Pirate Little Bit Princess sign is from the DISigner Amy):

 

[cmacf1]

Last one for tonight:

 

[nursetanya1973]

Does anybody know if that's how one would spell the word 'lady' made plural and possessive?? Any grammar teachers out there?

Well, I'm not a grammar teacher, but I do have a minor in English Lit. Will that do?

It is actually Ladies', but that's a tricky one.

 

[nursetanya1973]

Thanks to everyone who tried to help me get those name signs completed. I ended up asking Amy on the Disdesigns forum to do them, and they turned out wonderful.

Everyone has such great ideas. I only came up with one that was really original, but I don't really know how to post it. Guess I'll try to figure that out....