drbindy wrote:
I did a tutorial here for one of the custom celebrations (actually the last one, I guess). I included details for printing, but started with the assumption that you already had an image to work with. For creating the image, I'm not much help. But if you have the picture you want to start with, you can get some really impressive resolution even at the reduced sizes using programs as simple as paint on windows. The decal set I bought years ago included a program disk with it, but I actually prefer paint.
I doubt this helps with what your base question was, so sorry for that. When it comes to actually printing what you've created though, I think the tutorial I did might help.
You can definitely go the way of reducing with a raster editor, but you'll always lose some detail. If you can get a vector of the image you want (which is more work if there isn't one premade), it'll look the same no matter how you scale it. Really, though, unless you're trying to size something enormous down to use-on-figure size, it's not necessarily worth the trouble. And yeah, I think inkscape is the only semi-decent free vector editor.
Matthew – 
