How to Make Your Own Graphics for a Dirt Bike

You can customize any graphic to put on your dirt bike.

Graphics are customizable for just about any club, group or interest. Anything that you wish to advertise can be added easily to a dirt bike to customize its look. While it does take some basic knowledge of a graphics program such as Photoshop, Paint or Gimp, even the most simple design can be made into a graphic for a motorbike. Once the image is made, any graphic shop can make your image into a vinyl graphic to be applied to your bike.

Things You'll Need

• Computer graphic program, such as Photoshop
• Computer
• Scanner
• Flash drive

Instructions

1. Depending on your artistic ability, you might want to start with a drawn image, scanned into your computer.

2. Once you have a base image, open the image in your program.

3. Save the image as something different than the originally scanned image, such as "Practice," in case you make an error.

4. Use the program's tools to manipulate the image, change the color and add text. You can change the shape and size to fit on different parts of your dirt bike. Depending on your familiarity with graphic design, there are several online tutorials on how to manipulate images. Use layers to stack images on top of one another, so that if you do make a mistake, it can be easily deleted without messing up the rest of the image.

5. Save your image once finished. Contact a custom vinyl shop that will scan and cut your image for you.

6. Apply the vinyl images to your dirt bike.

References

• Photoshop Tutorials
• GimpLite Quickies (simple photo manip)
• Graphics Design (youtube)

Resources

• How to Apply Vinyl Graphics