02 Vector

Got the vector back from the company I used. They did a great job on it and I'm very happy with the design. Now to just touch up 07 a bit and then have two mugs created. I won't get to this step for the next few days though because I will be busy this weekend.

Quick Update

Just waiting for the vectoring company to finish the work and I'll post the result here. From there I'll make two mugs, one with each design on them and take pictures. I'll share them on the blog for all those who are still interested to view.

Split Decision

Voting has ended. 02 and 07 have tied for the win. What I will do though is have 02 professionally vectored and if 07 needs any touching up I'll handle that. It seems pretty fine other than a rough edge here and there. By doing this, most everybody will get what they want. The downside is if I can only bulk order one image at a time it will likely be a dollar or two more. If anybody has a problem with that let me know on the blog. I'll hammer out the details on that later. For now I'll get a professional to handle 02. I'll post and updated version of 02 as soon as the job is done.

Professional Help

After receiving some advice, I have decided to have the final image stenciled by a professional and not do it myself. It'll cost a bit to do but I won't charge anything more for the mugs and the final outcome will be better than my attempts. I am pretty good with photoshop but nothing compared to a professional who will end up making a better final version. Until then I'll make some quick and dirty stencils to chose from. Like this I should have emails sent out by Saturday.

Technical Difficulties

Received an email from Glass With a Twist this morning. They would have a difficult time working around most of the images so right now I'm going though the process of converting all the images into true black and white. It requires some time to touch up the images manually as well so I will hold another voting off the new, true black and white images sometime. I don't know how long this will take but considering Anonymous of Jacksonville was an awesome enough dude to link me from his blog I've been receiving a few more requests to join in on the project.

The images will look different because they will be true black and white but so far I see little problems. The hardest part is touching them up to get rid of derpy angles. We're almost ready to start choosing the final image. I predict in about a week I will email everybody to revote on the four images.

Top 4

Voting has ended and files 01 and 07 were the crowd favorites with twelve votes a piece. In third place is 02 with six votes. These three I will be sending in but there is another issue. Somebody emailed me a late submission early into the voting process. Instead of emailing everybody who already had voted, I'm going to just include it in the final vote. The text will be removed.

Now I need to send them to the company and see which they can use. Hopefully all four designs work out. Either way, expect an email as soon as they get back to me for another round of voting. 

Voting Time

Still waiting for about half the anons to vote. Throwing this up in case you are one of them so check your mail for a response. Either way I will count all the votes by Friday of if feeling patient, wait as late as Sunday.

I will post the results by Sunday night my time either way and immediately contact the glass etchers to see what they can do. I am really hoping the top three can be done but at worst I am very sure a few can be. So far there are three main contenders but that can still change. Look forward to voting updates by Sunday pacific time at latest.