I never made a pcb before and would like to try it. The fuzz cenral site says to reduce the image 33%. I am using photoshop and i'm having trouble. can anyone giveme any suggestions or tell me how they do it?
I saved the image to my laptop at work then used Kodak imager (I was running win98) to resize it then printed it out. opps I missread your post I though you were using a photcopier... I just did it in Photoshop here at home it's not hard. Go to help and use the image resizer wizard it's on the bottom of the help pull down. Then select print for your use then change the sizing to inches take 33% or 1.89 " for the top number the bottom will automatically adjust. On the next screen for your half tone screen select 200. Next screen just use 1.5 default for the quality save it it print it or whatever.... Make sure you right click and save the .gif from the rangmaster start page and don't try and save it from the gif page. My browser here won't save images right they default to bitmaps... dam microshaft!!
No wonder I'm having trouble. I don't have photoshop. LOL I have adobe photodeluxe. The reduced image is really fuzzy. Humm. I guess i will have to play with it to find a way for it to work.
I use PowerPoint to reduce the PCBs when i print them out on the Pn'P Blue paper. Also note that it should be reduced to 30% of it's original size
If you have PowerPoint, just insert the PCB image into the slide (in the "landscape" slide layout...NOT portrait). Then right-click on the image and select "format picture." In the picture format window, click on the "size" tab and under "scale" replace either of the two 100% in width and height with 30% (also make sure that "lock aspect ratio" is checked before changing the scaling).
Thanks for the help. I figued out how to scale the pic to the "right" size. I just hope the next part is not too difficult. I plan on trying the photo paper transfer method since i already have the paper. I'll let u know how it goes after i finish trying it out
This is my first time starting into the exciting process of building my own effects pedals (and it certainly won’t be my last). I have a quick question on the PCB printout. I followed the instructions above using PowerPoint and I just need some reassurance, as the Printout seems really really small, I may have goofed up somewhere on the scaling process (doh), or maybe my eyes deceive me. I am building the TycoBrahe Octavia.
Please help as all my parts are sitting eager to get on a board and into its box...
I plan on trying the photo paper transfer method since i already have the paper. I'll let u know how it goes after i finish trying it out
