[Godeater]

Hi,

I recently posted pictures of my custom wallsons and a lot of people where asking me for details on creating inlay graphics for these chips. There are no clear instructions on the pokerchiplounge website and I had to do quite a bit of research to get the right specs.

So here's what I know:

Chip dimensions (Edgespot & Solid):
The chips are 1.55 inches in diameter.
The recessed center is 1.105 inches in diameter.
The labels are 1.08 inches in diameter.

File format:
I made my design in Photoshop and sent jpegs (one for every denom) along with my breakdown to service@pokerchiplounge.com. My jpegs where 1.105x1.105 inches and 600 dpi. I named them accordingly to the chip the label was for (e.g. sc_chip_5_red_edgespot_wallson.jpg) and put them in a zip file. That seemed to be fine. Pokerchiplounge made a mockup for every chip and sent that back, so you'll see what you get before it's too late.

Color matching:
Here are the color codes I used for my design. They fit very well after oiling the chips. The orange is a bit off, because it's a neon color and not printable. The base colors are valid for the solids and the edgespots.

Base:
Red - 990033
Green - 669966
Blue - 336699
Orange - FC9530
Purple - 6600CC
Black - 000000
White - FFFFFF

Edges:
Red - 99CCFF, 669966 (Blue, Green)
Green - FF6699,99FF00 (Pink, Light Green)
Blue - FFFFFF, 99CCCC (White, Turquise)
Orange - 990033, 666699 (Red, Blue)
Purple - CC3399, 99FF99 (Pink, Light Green)
Black - FC9530, 99CCCC (Orange, Turquise)
White: FF0033, E8D89A (Red, Yellow)

Breakdown:
You have to order at least 25 chips of every denomination and a multiple of 5.
So you can't order 23 or 28 but you can order 25 or 30.


BTW: If you're doing your design in Photoshop and you need circular text you'll want to use at least Photoshop CS because you can align text to a path with it.
Here's a nice tutorial from adobe on this.


I hope everything is understandable because English is not my native language. If anything is unclear feel free to correct me.

[TBonesPoker]

Good info here, my man. Thanks.

[machinelf]

Great collection of info! Maybe we should create a set of stickies for these things, since the vendors don't make this stuff available on their web sites...

And your English is great.

[papycc]

Nice guidelines !!!!

[travisjd]

Originally Posted by Godeater

Color matching:
Here are the color codes I used for my design. They fit very well after oiling the chips. The orange is a bit off, because it's a neon color and not printable. The base colors are valid for the solids and the edgespots.

Base:
Red - 990033
Green - 669966
Blue - 336699
Orange - FC9530
Purple - 6600CC
Black - 000000
White - FFFFFF

Edges:
Red - 99CCFF, 669966 (Blue, Green)
Green - FF6699,99FF00 (Pink, Light Green)
Blue - FFFFFF, 99CCCC (White, Turquise)
Orange - 990033, 666699 (Red, Blue)
Purple - CC3399, 99FF99 (Pink, Light Green)
Black - FC9530, 99CCCC (Orange, Turquise)
White: FF0033, E8D89A (Red, Yellow)

Breakdown:
You have to order at least 25 chips of every denomination and a multiple of 5.
So you can't order 23 or 28 but you can order 25 or 30.


BTW: If you're doing your design in Photoshop and you need circular text you'll want to use at least Photoshop CS because you can align text to a path with it.
Here's a nice tutorial from adobe on this.


I hope everything is understandable because English is not my native language. If anything is unclear feel free to correct me.

Just an FYI, when talking about colors for PRINT you should use CMYK values or PANTONE spot color match rather than the html color codes. Those are for on screen graphics only and even then, unless you are talking about a website, you should use RGB values. There is usually listings of all these color specs in the color chooser on photoshop so you won't have a problem here. I think the idea for spec sheets is an awesome one and this is a great start, but we should follow the standards set before us as well.

[Godeater]

Originally Posted by travisjd

Just an FYI, when talking about colors for PRINT you should use CMYK values or PANTONE spot color match rather than the html color codes. Those are for on screen graphics only and even then, unless you are talking about a website, you should use RGB values. There is usually listings of all these color specs in the color chooser on photoshop so you won't have a problem here. I think the idea for spec sheets is an awesome one and this is a great start, but we should follow the standards set before us as well.

You're right - but these are the colors I got from pokerchiplounge (These are actually rgb - just in hex). Maybe someone with a Pantone palette and PI samples can post the right Pantone colors?