I just tried to do a decal

and came up with this.

May you could give

me information how it is?

Could you please be more specific on what information you are asking for?

Is the 'dotted' appearance that bothers you? What program did you create the design with? Is this a mod on a pre-existing image? Have you tried saving the image in another extention (like .png)?

If you can share these elements, we might be able to help you better.

I first had it as a png file but it was to big so i changed to gif and

in my png version it isnt "dotted".

I just wanted to know how the general design looks like.

But if you got any ideas how I could do it better I would be very happy

if you tell your ideas to me.

I made the ground lines with a Fineliner, before i scanned it and

gave the color to it with photoshop.

(I guess the linework isnt very good)

Personally, I find it very good. It's pretty detailed and the overall design is nicely done.

The dotted pattern is due to .gif format, I think. I already experienced this 'glitch' when saving in .gif from Photoshop. Just use the .png version if you want to print it.

The only thing you might want to improve is make sure you fill with colour each white space in the image. I sopt a few places where the colour is missing. This is common when using the bucket in Photoshop to fill large spaces, as the smaller areas (single dots or slightly more) are left blank by the program. You have to manually colour them with the pencil tool of an appropriate size.

Thank you very much i will fix the white areas.

I made the ground lines with a Fineliner, before i scanned it and

gave the color to it with photoshop.

(I guess the linework isnt very good)

Actually line work is great as a base idea or sketch, however it poses a problem for the final product. Unless you want the final product to have that handmade feel to it, may I suggest you use your scan to create a digital version using vector graphics (Vector graphics programs: Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape). Vector graphics allow you to export or print the finished product at any resolution you wish. If vector graphics is not your forte, then you could use a path tool in combination with a fill tool in say Adobe Photoshop, Corel Paintshop Pro, or the Gimp. That way there are only single colors and no transparency edge effects present.

If you recreate it then you could use .gif format. But by recreating it you will not have all the artifacts (little dots and what not that are caused by loss of quality due to formats like .gif and low quality .jpg) the image would be much cleaner. There are better formats such as .png, .pdf and .tiff, but then again the choice is yours.

Here I have attached two examples I made for reference: Sorry they are not torsos, but they are to show the difference between a vector graphics image and a raster image (like a scan, photo, your image, etc...)

Vector Graphics: (Made with Inkscape - Image has been "rasterized" or turned into an image in .png format)

Raster Image: (A completely digital drawing done by means of a graphics tablet and the Gimp)

Another tip that you can do is scan the image in as line art (black and white), use a color to transparency to get rid of the white leaving only the black lines. Then add a layer underneath and color in the areas. Just make sure to clean up any over spray and such. Then flatten the image so all that is there is just the torso (This means there is transparency around the image.). Or if you prefer .gif, then make a white layer underneath all the others and flatten them together before exporting as this will remove the transparency.

I hope that helps. I'm sorry if I explained something you already knew.

3D LEGO

PNG is a much better format than gif and unless you have to work with some piece of software that can only read gif and not png, you should always choose png.

Thanks to 3D LEGO and LuxorV but like i said, i already got it as png so the image above is just a low copy of it.

but 3D Legos idea to scan the linework black and white sounds interresting.