Product photo to weed-ready decal run.
No vector file — just a product photo. Hand-traced into weed-friendly outlines with contour cut and overcut marks, sized for a 60-unit storefront decal run on a GraphTec.
Drift Apparel needed storefront decals from a product photo with no source artwork. VectorWiz hand-traced the mark into weed-friendly outlines with contour cut and overcut marks, sized for a 60-unit GraphTec run, and delivered in 15 hours across three colors.
The job
Drift Apparel needed a run of storefront window decals — 60 units across three colors, cut on a GraphTec plotter. It was a Tier 2 vinyl job on a tight clock.
The problem with the source
There was no vector file to work from — just a product photo of the mark. A raster photo has no clean outlines a plotter can follow, and auto-tracing a photo leaves the ragged, open paths that snag the blade and tear on the weed. To cut and weed cleanly across 60 units, the artwork had to be rebuilt as true vector geometry.
What we did
We hand-traced the mark from the photo into weed-friendly outlines — closed paths sized so the vinyl lifts away cleanly rather than fighting the blade. Each of the three colors was separated onto its own plotter-ready layer, and we added contour cut and overcut marks so the GraphTec registers and finishes each decal accurately at production size.
The production result
Drift Apparel had the files in hand 15 hours after checkout — comfortably inside our 24-hour standard: three color-separated, weed-ready layers with contour and overcut marks, sized for the 60-unit storefront decal run. The decals dropped straight onto the GraphTec and cut clean — no tracing, no path cleanup, no re-weeding.
Specialised for the way your shop runs
Production buyers don't need a generic vector — they need files that drop straight into the next step in the workflow.
Sign shops
Channel letters, banners, monument signs. Spot color, scaled to install dimensions, separated for routing.
Embroidery
Stitch-aware redraws, density-tuned fills, thread color pairings. Output paired with digitizing notes.
Screen printing
PMS-matched separations, halftones, knockouts, choke + spread. Ready for the press, not just for show.
DXF / laser / CNC
Closed paths, single-stroke text, kerf compensation, tool-pathed for cut depth and material.
Engraving
Single-line stroke fonts, fill-vs-outline routing, depth-aware paths for rotary, laser, and burin work.
Signage fabricators
CNC-ready files for channel letters, dimensional letters, monument signs, ADA interior signage.
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