General design settings

Let your imagination run free, endless possibilities are here. Read carefully for not displacing the layers

Make your design

The template we send you has several layers:
• Regular guides
• Thin mortar
• Wide mortar
• Cracks, broken, cracked
• Colored background
• Background (depending on the template you can change a name or include an extra layer)

All our models can be 100% personalized with your images and designs.

Do´s

  • Modify colors, apply effects, remove or add layers.
  • Keep in mind that if you send us different designs ready to print for the same sheet, there is no additional cost.

Don´ts

  • Never displace the layers
  • If you move a layer to one side or the other, up or down, then it will not fit perfectly in the mold.

How to work with the template

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We propose 6 types of design:

  • Color
  • Very easy
  • Easy
  • Simple compound
  • Compound
  • Mural

Color

We will send you a layer of color already placed in the template you have chosen, and you will only have to modify it in a very simple way.

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Very Easy

This type of drawing is very easy to use, they are the same and their orientation does not matter. It is an easy-to-install design, both on monolithic and staggered tiles.

Easy

Although all tiles are the same, their orientation is important (you can’t flip the tiles because the borders would be upside down).

We recommend that you only use it on align models.

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Simple

The drawing is formed by the composition of several tiles (maximum 4).

  • We recommend that you only use it on monolithic models.
  • Choose a plank model that has a number of tiles suitable for your design , because if you don’t do it that way, it will be very difficult for you to work with the templates…

Imagine that you choose a tile pattern that is made up of odd tiles, with a composition of 4 tiles. The designs are cut in half and when you assemble the sheets, no matter how many turns you give them, you will not match them well, as you can see in the following images:

Compound

If the design is formed with different images, we recommend that you only use it on monolithic models. Two differents ways:

1. The most studied template design work to facilitate placement on the set (before starting to place the tiles on the template you will have to do a study to make the correct design and “cutting” of each of the plates).

2. The simplest template design, and the most complex set placement (design entire plates with the different types of tiles, to later cut and assemble the set in the appropriate way).

Mural

  • All the tiles are different, composing an image.
  • We recommend that you only use it on models align.
  • The placement of those drawings or borders in the template will have to be done by you.

If you want to make a mural, you have two options:

1. Use the photo of a real tile mural

We have experience with this type of work and spectacular results are achieved. If the photography is well done, it is a highly recommended option.

What drawbacks can you find?

  • If the photo is not perfectly lit, it will be very difficult to remove the shadows or highlights.
  • You will have to “carry” all the grid formed by the photographed tiles to the grid of the template. It has to match perfectly to make it look good.
  • Depending on the photo, it will be more or less easy for you to do it

2. Use a non-tile image

Use the image of a painting, engraving, watercolor… and “enter” it in the template.

Some advices

  • At the end of the modifications we recommend do a montage of the plates to see what look you’re getting (make a small copy, not “heavy”) and you can correct them before we go to print them.
  • Next, you will see in the example a design “fault” that you should avoid, and which you will realize when you make the assembly that we recommend:
  • By putting a “peculiar” element such as the tile with a different tone, when you place the plates in the set, there will be a lot of repetition. That is why we give you the following advice…
  • Always try to make designs as “homogeneous” as possible… namely; don’t include a tile very different from the others, or make such an obvious mark. You will give them the “character” with paint or whatever you want when you have them placed and mounted in their final location.
  • You could putting a “peculiar” element such as the tile with a different tone, when you place the sheet in the set, there will be a lot of repetition. 
  • If in any case, you prefer to include “peculiar” elements, you can send us a different design for each sheet… keep in mind that this will not have any extra cost in your budget!.
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