Any tips on taking pictures so that everything sizes up the same?

[Pauly]

I hope whoever originally wrote it chimes in, but someone once mentioned taking the picture from as far back as possible to prevent lens distortion. Something about keeping the object in the middle 1/3rd or 2/3rd of the objective. Also if you have a cab that is offset from the box, then sizing to the box will make the cab small and sizing to the cab will make the box too big. So for proofing you'll have to estimate that, but the production file should be just the box and just the cab.

You photoshop RAW editor to adjust for lens distortion. Basically find your camera and lens in the drop down and it corrects it, including the vignetting that you wont notice until it's gone.

 

[ams]

Design at full scale. Take a few measurements such as height and length of the area. Once that matches in your software, everything will be to scale. Then you can size it down for proofs.

But if you want to go professional, you can use this: https://www.stanleytools.com/produc...aser-tape-measure/smart-measure-pro/stht77366

 

[Jester1167]

Image Template Creation

• Jester1167
• Jan 4, 2018
• 1

 

[Racegrafix]

I put a cut vinyl square of known size on it, then size grid later so I can get square dead on. You can skew to picture, and once the square fits you know the size and that it is not skewed.