Wow a lot of work John but what a nice job you did! PM sent and thank you!

Thanks, the file for the art has been sent out to you! Yep, it was a bee-atch of a clean-up. Three multiple hour sessions in Photoshop is what it took, but it came out great. I wanted to preserve it, as a lot of these old drum graphics get lost and are never reproduced. If I find others, I'll do those as well and start a little library of vintage drum graphics. I'm retired now so I can use all the art/graphics skills I honed for decades on stuff that -I- want to work on. :D

John

Great work. I have some reproductions I would like to contribute to your library. I'll send you a pm with my email address.

John thank you Brother! So cool and you do great work. Thank you thank you thank you for dedicating your time to this project. I need to see if I can run water transfer decal stock through the Indigo at work. I can do vinyl no problem but the press blanket gets to 140* normally for plastic and vinyl stocks. I add null cycles to pre heat/stretch the plastic stocks for good color register. This just runs the sheets around the blanket cylinder a few times. The higher temps are needed for good ink transfer and drying on this digital press. Without those the sheet will stretch and colors can hang out all over. If I can find stocks that work I'll run off some and send them to you! Also the cool thing is this press can print a solid white ink backround under the image if desired to avoid translucent color loss. But they might stand out a bit too much. I'll see what I can find out.

Surprisingly...I had kept a kept an image on file with a view to doing the same clean up job.. Did not yet find the time.. This could even be the same original picture ?

Cheers John

lj - Send me your home email addy and I'll send you a copy!

Glenn - if you do it, run -transparent- backgrounds so the wood grain of the drum can show through. The decal will look more 'painted on'!

John

Yep that sure looks the same. If I do transparent without white you'll loose the white areas in the decal itself. Now that I see it on a drum there's a white base. I can do from 1 to 16 hits on white. Normally 1-2 hits will still be somewhat transparent even with the opaque white ink we use. It's a thin layer. Or can drop the white out completely. Will try some tests and keep you posted.