I thought I would try and document some techniques for using photoshop to help with small playfield repairs. I am not a PS expert so if others have some examples and how-to's, please add them in!

Ny first submission is a pretty simple one, creating a small graphic for a playfield plastic. Although it uses Photoshop, I suspect the concepts are pretty similar to other apps. If you have PS and have been a little nervous of trying anything with it, I hope this helps!

Here is a quick little video showing creating and manuplating text in photoshop while creating an apron graphic:

Here is a key video, how to use photoshop to clean up a camera picture of the playfield and get it accurate. It follows how to use trandform, distort and barrel distortion as well as image-scaling to get an accurate, scaled image that can be used for printing decals or vinyl or whatever. I hope its useful for people:

The concept is similar. In your case you already have accurate scans so the photoshop warping thing is not really needed. You might have to clean up the graphic, depending on how good the scan is.. they can be washed out and need to have brightness and saturation pumped up. Then you can print onto some decal paper

For me the issue is how to accurately cut some new plastic. That is something I have been playing around with, might be able to post something after the Tacoma show

Here is another post covering a similar situation, the photographing, scaling and touchup of a playfield picture. In this case its for use in a vinyl cutter to make a paint mask.

For anyone interested, here is part 2: using the photoshop image to actually cut out a paint mask.

Its been awhile but I have been duplicating a Ice Revue playfield and I thought I would post another little one on duplicating lettering. Sometimes you want it to be exact rather than just using a font that is pretty close. THis shows how to duplicate letters pretty easily.