DIY inlay design tutorial (1 Viewer)

[RainmanTrail]

I came across this video on YouTube that I thought some people here would like to watch. It's an Adobe Illustrator tutorial video that basically teaches you how to design your own poker chip inlays (he doesn't talk specifically about poker chips, but he's showing you how to make circular artwork). It's very well done. I'm definitely not a graphic artist, but I've been able to create some pretty simple inlays using the techniques in this video along with downloading various fonts and using free clip-art I find online.

Here are a few random inlays I've created by watching this tutorial and a few others (the Burro's HS chip edge spots were borrowed from @quicksilver's templates - thanks again!).

These aren't amazing obviously, but if you're trying to design something simple, stuff like this is fairly easy to learn how to make.

 

[Ghoti]

Way cool. Thanks for the share. What's the story behind the Redding inlay?

 

[RainmanTrail]

Way cool. Thanks for the share. What's the story behind the Redding inlay?

That one is from a casino in California that burned down in the 80s. I have about 160 $1s that survived the fire. I took a pic of the inlay with my cell phone and uploaded it to my computer and imported it into vector magic to create the logo. Then used illustrator to do the denoms and text at the bottom.

 

[Ghoti]

Beautiful chip! I ask because I grew up about 30 min. south of there in a little town called Red Bluff (not that I'm proud of that ).

 

[Chipandchair]

Thanks for sharing this info!

 

[RainmanTrail]

Beautiful chip! I ask because I grew up about 30 min. south of there in a little town called Red Bluff (not that I'm proud of that ).

Ya, it's one of my all time favorite inlays. Wish I could find a full set of them. I've driven through Red Bluff many times! Not far from Mt Shasta. Good times, beautiful scenery up there.

 

[WedgeRock]

Not far from Mt Shasta.

 

[allforcharity]

Adobe Illustrator is great if you can afford it or have access to an older, free version. The user interface is quite intuitive. Way back when I taught myself the basic use of this to design my poker table felt as well as the inlays of my custom ceramic chips before I approached Sal at OWPS. Was very happy with the experimentation and the results.

 

[RainmanTrail]

Adobe Illustrator is great if you can afford it or have access to an older, free version. The user interface is quite intuitive. Way back when I taught myself the basic use of this to design my poker table felt as well as the inlays of my custom ceramic chips before I approached Sal at OWPS. Was very happy with the experimentation and the results.

Ya, I have an older free version but it still works great.

 

[RTTM]

Thanks for passing this along, at some distant future state I would love to put together a chip set with a custom inlay.

In the meantime I can tinker with this and dream.

 

[Meddler2]

Nice.
Anybody remember the recess size of Apache's forthcoming 43mm chips?

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

I also had the intention at some point to make a "Cali Rounders" type label :

 

[Kensco]

Wish my version had the "touch type tool", very cool.

Even though the .ai version featured in the video is newer than mine, still a lot of good relevant info in that tutorial. Thank you for posting!

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

For those - like me - who wants to use free (and open source) softwares, I’ve had good results with the following 2 :
- Inkscape
- Gimp

Personnally I use them on Linux.

 

[geimerman]

Thanks for sharing. Any recommendations on who to get the inlays printed by?

 

[Tonysquander]

Thanks for sharing. Any recommendations on who to get the inlays printed by?

https://www.gearlabels.com/

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/forums/gear-labels.48/

 

[BTJOHNE]

Thanks for sharing.

 

[geimerman]

@Tonysquander thanks, I'll check them out and likely order some. Cheers!