Promoting Professionalism in the Vinyl Graphics Industry

This training is by far the most comprehensive training in the industry today. It covers everything except equipment training (which hopefully has been covered by your equipment vendor at the time of installation). Specifically, these are the subjects available to choose from:

• The fleet & vehicle graphics market - what drives the demand?
• Software: Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop basic concepts and tools.
• Design tools - Software, templates, clip and images resources. (demonstration and samples).
• Pre Design - Designing in 2D for 3D world, proper measuring technique, creating custom outlines.
• Vehicle Design Basics - Color coordination, image & fonts selection, positioning, designing for easy installation.
• Design - Understanding scaling and resampling (hands-on exercise), color management (basic), masking in PhotoShop  (hands-on exercise), workspace preparations (hands-on exercise), working with layers, applying graphics to a template (hands-on exercise), Getting organized: Working in a group.
• Post design - Preparing customer’s proposal and installer’s “blue-print,” graphic tiling techniques, partial wrap and contour cutting.
• Pre Installation - Choosing the proper media and advantages/disadvantage of each, installation tools and supplies.
• Marketing - Who buys vehicle wraps and where can you find them? how do you sell vehicle wraps in a good or bad economy?
• Installation - Surface preparation, performing a "dry-run," vinyl installation techniques, finish touches.