Bit of a strange one, but I'm trying to recreate the bottom two cards here using the top scan that I have in person. You can see I made an attempt myself with the second one, but quickly realized I was in a bit over my head for if I wanted to maintain the quality without it becoming a several hours long project. Not necessarily asking someone to do it themselves (Though I would certainly appreciate that too.), but I could also just use some pointers and direction to some sort of tool that might make this easier. Really I'm just trying to maintain the print size while also keeping the watermark in tact. This goes to a multi console arcade stick by pelican. I tried looking for scans in the past with no luck. Hopefully I can publish the result somewhere so future owners of this arcade stick can find and print out their missing cards. If nothing comes of it I suppose I could just make a really rough mock-up, I was just hoping there was an easy way to avoid that at the moment.
>>1539306It's not an hours long job, it's a minutes long job.The hardest part is that bird or whatever in the background which you will trace around with a vector tool. Personally, I'd use Inkscape or some vector based image program to draw the outline of each section with the pen/bezier tool and fill grey. You might want to do it in sections even for the parts of the bird that are connected. Use an opaque fill.If the feathers are actually supposed to be lighter at upper right and it's not just a bent card then use a gradient tool to fill them lighter.Make the swirl with the pen tool again and circle with the ellipse tool. Some look like they have en embossed effect. One simple hack is to duplicate a shape twice, colour one duplicate white and the other grey. Send the duplicates to the back and nudge them a few pixels in opposite directions.Once you've done one it for one colour circle + swirl then you've done it for all of them since it's just a group-duplicate-recolour process that takes seconds.
>>1539332That's a lot of stuff that is new to me, but I appreciate it. I was hoping for something that didn't rely on my drawing skills with a mouse. I might give it another go with this program, but your advice certainly yielded interesting results.The scan might not be as correct as it should be as this card has been quite weathered. As far as I can tell everything on the card is supposed to be a solid color with some effect from the printing process. As long as I can get the overall basic design duplicated and cleaned up, I would be happy with the results.
>>1539393On my second attempt I was able to make it much cleaner and to get a general outline, but it's still very rough and needs cleaning and finishing up.
