Vehicle wraps are the most common marketing tool available for many businesses. Small businesses like mine, cannot afford the huge marketing expenses. Wraps are like a mobile ad that has coverage on a large area and you have to pay for space only once. The boat or car wraps are generally made of vinyl that covers the entire vehicle. These wraps contain elaborate designs and eye catching slogans. Usually people get them done through professional graphic designers, but if you so prefer you can get the graphics of your vehicle or boat wrap done by yourself.

If you plan to design your own wrap, it may not be as easy as it looks. Since this is the marketing tool of your company, you have to get it perfect. As a prerequisite you have to have at least an intermediate skill in graphics design and does a lot of research before you start designing.

Lay The Ground Work

If you want to design vehicle wraps for yourself or for somebody else, the key point you need is the template. Normally you have to get the size of the vehicle. You can buy templates from websites, but be careful that they are normally standard sizes and may not always fit your vehicle perfectly. Then you must discuss with the vehicle printing company on the required specifications. Next you must collect some high quality photos of the vehicle you plan to wrap. Once you are ready with all the technical side you must get your logo and advertising copy ready. If you plan to use car wraps for advertising purposes, then you should design a simple wrap. This is because the information should be easy to read for customers.

Roll Up Sleeves For Real Work

You have to then sketch the design using the photos that you have obtained of the vehicle. You can either design on the template or Photoshop the design. Photo shopping the design is generally preferred as it is easy to understand how they fit on the surfaces of the vehicle. Then your design should be applied in a mock up, in the case of designing wraps for others. Always choose designs that will not only look good in photo shop but can also practically be used on the vehicle. Then you must apply the design to the template. You can create boat wraps file in Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop. The deliver the files to the vehicle wrap people.

Jerome Julian writes about using vehicle wraps, car wraps, boat wraps & advertising, printing & marketing industry based on his experience in working with CRDWraps .com.