GT7: Create Your Own Decals
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- Опубліковано 2 кві 2023
- In this update video I show you how to create and convert SVG decals for use in Gran Turismo 7 since we all know how difficult the GT7 decal uploader can be when trying to make an awesome livery!
Inkscape.org is the software I’m using to create the decals.
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00:00 intro
01:45 How to upload
03:15 software overview
04:50 convert pictures
08:10 file size mgmt
12:08 drawing decals
14:50 gradients
19:10 Ninja magic
23:40 imposing shapes
25:03 text and metallic
I'm just breaking into the GT/ sim racing world. The livery editing capabilities in this game are super intriguing to me so naturally I took to UA-cam and discovered your channel. The quality of content that you put out here is phenomenal and honestly has been addictive to consume. 🔥🙏
This has been so helpful. I’m a complete beginner just getting into and beginning to understand SVG’s, felt like I’d gone down a Rabbit hole, but your explanation shines a mighty light. Thanks so much.
Glad this helped! It’s definitely a rabbit hole and for creative types can be quite a fun one once you’re past the initial learning curve
absolutely detailed and good enough information where if u knew nothing you have a good baseline to create decals or know what questions to ask moving forward
Thank you my friend, I’m glad you found the video helpful 🙏
The car template thing is SO clever! I make decals all of the time, this is such a useful idea.
Thanks man! I had originally thought to pull in stencils off the web but a lot of places try to charge for them. Then I though, “wait a second…🧐” and here we are.
I have been looking for a video like this all the way back on GT Sports, THANK YOU!!!
That’s great of you to say! I’m glad it was helpful!
Man you got a gift of explaining without over explaining or not explaining enough if that makes sense. Great teaching qualities. Thanks for dropping your knowledge on us. You got my like and subscribe👍🏼
Thanks man! I super appreciate the complement! I just found that there was very limited good quality content explaining how to do these things so thought I’d put my best foot forward to package it up and make it presentable. Glad you’re finding it beneficial!
Highly appreciated mate, this opens up a world of posibilities
My pleasure 🤙
What a great video. I feel overwhelmed, but I guess it will just take some time. Thank You
Glad to help. Learning new software is always a little overwhelming. Especially in the age of iPhones and apps.
Thank you so much man. Love your livery tutorials
Happy to help!
This really great info. Thank you very much for creating this video. Keep em coming.
My pleasure brotha! 🤙
You opened my eyes to a lot of stuff that gave me an Eureka moment😂 Thanks!!
Haha love to hear it! Eureka moments are the best 🤙
I'm just breaking into the GT/ sim racing world. The quality of content that you put out here is phenomenal and honestly has been addictive to consume. Thank you 🔥🙏
Hey, that’s awesome to hear man! Glad you’re finding the content helpful and I do believe that’s the first time someone has mentioned my content as being addictive! Hopefully it’s a gateway to greater things 😂 we have a discord specifically for livery design, if you’re interested to join let me know and I will post an invite link.
@@GTJesse Definitely interested in that! Adding a community aspect to this for me would be great. The design capabilities of this game are incredible. I'm grateful that you put this knowledge out there for people like us
@@cmz10 100%!
It’s a great community too, with a range of designers of all skill and experience levels. It’s not “my” discord, a fella named Nilvils created it, but it’s where I’m most active.
discord.gg/qpavRQnM
@@GTJesse Awesome. Joined. See you there. Thanks again!
@cmz10 awesome man see you there!
Cant wait to try this out! Ive been doing my liveries with shapes. A few of my liveries i had to remove decals as I hit the limit
Been there before! There’s nothing worse.
Thanks. Learnd much with your video. Great video.
Love to hear it man, cheers 🤙
Learning gradient is awesome , thanks for that
Glad it was helpful!
Nice one Jesse, I don't have either a computer or laptop but I watched it all, fascinating at just how similar it is to how I created my artwork for screenprinting.
Like deployed 👍
Oh yeah man, it would probably be very similar. Vectors are a good format to use for screen printing so you don’t lose quality when increasing the size. Cheers buddy! 🤙
Great video!!! I was getting so frustrated with my svg sizes earlier!
Glad to help! 🙌🤙
Ok. Love making liveries. But frustratingly want more decals - so great video, think I’ll give this a shot. 👍
Glad to help 🤍🤙
Thanks my friend for all information.
My pleasure 🙌
Excellent content!
I've been fiddling with decals in game and found out the limit is 400 decals 😐 and VERY time consuming.
I can see this is to but not close to layering shapes 😀
Thank you very much, I shall go through your content and see if you have any way of using photos.
I guess one would break down a photo in several smaller parts with a couple of coloured layers... or something and then bring them back in GT7 😅
Super big thank you for creating this great tutorial 👌
Hey! Just seeing this for some reason, but that’s right. Larger more complex files have to be uploaded in pieces and recompiled in the game. Which is why you’ll often see anime characters or portraits of TSwift in bits and pieces in the decal library
Nice one Jessie👍
Thanks Stephen! 🤙
Great video, thank you!
Glad to help! 🤙
Damn dude! I think I should look into this topic more. You make it look so easy. 😅
Hard to believe you’re not already doing this! I’m scared to see what would happen if you do!
@@GTJesse I still have various ideas that I would like to implement... but haven't found any suitable decals yet. 😅
Good information!!!😍
Thank you!
hello ( I'm French sorry for the translation ) , I wanted to thank you for this video and these explanations which I am trying to improve in this area. I have a logo that was sent to me that I'm trying to integrate but I can't. I think it should be done in several parts because it is too complex. This requires a lot of work and thanks again for these explanations. sephironin
I’m happy to help my friend!
Hello Jesse, I enjoyed the video, thanks! I've got a strange issue; when I upload a decal to GT7 on my PC, it looks really fine after the import. However, on the PS5 it is totaly blanc! I got no clue. Hav you?
Great video! I was wondering how do you install python for Inkspace, and I upload a few numbers on GT7. They looked fine on the website, but didn't show up on the game.
The numbers thing is interesting. Have you forgotten to do stroke/object to path before uploading by chance?
3:52 I didn’t get a custom install window like that on the Mac.
7:10 no idea if you’re holding a key but simply clicking isn’t grabbing the background layer or any layer. I have to use the Layers tool.
There’s a few shortcuts you’ve done there that a newbie will have to find out themselves.
The bit at 7:10 will be highly dependent on the file you’re working with. With the ghost decal I can just click because the yellow is off in its own space but with some other decals they will be more layered and require some massaging. The layers toool too though.
Mate, great guides. Im just learning and these are really helpful. Thank you.
One question I can't find an answer for on any video, is a transparency issue with white text (mainly seems to be text not objects)
So, even though the white text shows perfectly in the preview window in GT uploader, it's invisible when I go to use it. I make sure that I convert text to path first, but only way I can seem to get white text to show in a decal is to put a block like a rectangle underneath it... so it's showing thru the "hole' where the white letters are.
Any ideas where I can look for a solution? Thanks mate.
Hey AJ did you ever figure this out? Sorry for the delayed response
You need to Change to the original colour in the decal Menü, when you placed the decal on the car
As for SVGOMG find the optimised one for GT. Also set number precision at 1 , it doesn't lose any quality but will reduce the file a lot. So max file to get below 15kb is around 38kb
Hey thanks for your comments buddy. For the number precision I’ve found it really depends on the decal but for some you certainly can go that low (and sometimes you have to). But for other you may lose a bit of quality going that low.
Using 1 can absolutely ruin an SVG. It depends on the dimensions of the SVG. If the original node was like 987.654 and it'll now be 988 or 987.7 on an SVG that's 1000 wide then it's largely going to be OK. If the original node was 6.851233 and it'll now be 7 on an SVG that was 10 wide, it's going to shift a lot.
Really need to experiment with 1 or 2, with 2 being the minimum in most cases.
Yeah I've not had a problem with it being on 1 with 4000 decals uploaded so far , I'm pretty used to how it works , but thanks for those numbers. If thr file is say 16kb I'll run SVGOMG on 3 but I believe it depends, as you are not using the optimised SVGOMG for gt. That might make a difference
The thing I'm most hopeful to learn - setting gradient and translucent decals, without them blacking out or becoming solid.
I get that maybe the GT programming can't translate it though.
GT can definitely process the translucent gradients, they're just very finnicky. Will earmark this for a potential future release.
@@GTJesseplease do
GT7 just needs to add the option to make a decal into a negative or inverse decal, like how Forza does it, so we can create liviries similar to that Jaguar you showed at the end and it will be perfect!
That’s would be a nice feature. I was actually looking into to Forza editor recently. Seems both the Forza and gt7 editors have different limitations, but combine the two and you’d be golden!
You keep speckled and optimize on ? I've learned through YT not to use those and select multicolor the remove background and stack. With smooth only ticked..
Do you not worry about that if only pulling black outlines ?
For this one if I selected remove background it may have deleted the white fill, but I haven’t found much difference between the other settings. With multicolor I usually only adjust the layers and background check/uncheck.
can you please explain the following? do you import an SVG or JPEG? can you explain the keyboard shortcuts you use? I have tried to import a jpeg and SVG, I followed your instructions to the letter I cannot get the SVG reduced down from 425kb. it's doing my head in. Thanks
You can just save the image to your computer and then drag and drop it to the art board. I leave the pop-up settings on default and go from there. When I'm converting decals, I almost always am starting with a JPEG. For keyboard shortcuts, there are a lot, and I've learned that there is software that will show your key strokes on the screen as you work, to make for a better learning environment, which i'll do for future tutorials. For this one, the most commonly used shortcut is CTRL+SHIFT+R, doing this after you've selected an object will snap your document to the size of the object you have selected. Beyond that, it's a lot of CTRL+C/V/X/Z for copy, paste, cut, and undo.
Hello, Gt Jesse. How do you add decals to your favorites folder or any folder you create?
Just click triangle over the decal and add to favorites!
I haven't found a solution for many graphics I've created in the past (graphic designer for years). Many have been created in Photoshop and illustrator (large file sizes). Any ideas you may have for reducing file size and creating an svg, while I scour the interwebs? Appreciate it!
Hey buddy. There are sites like svgomg that do a brute force reduction on svg files. In illustrator there is also an option within the path menu to simplify, which reduces the number of nodes. Otherwise it’s very much an exercise in thinking of ways to re draw things to make them fewer layers and nodes. And also uploading in chunks, then re combining in the game if you have something that’s very complez
how do you make the canvas shrink to the size of what you imported?
Going off memory but I believe it’s CTRL + SHIFT + R
Im having issues currently, SVGOMG doesn't show the files i bring from Inkscape (And Inkscape only). All text i also bring over do appear in the "Decal list", but not the game itself (Same with SVGOMG). Any help?
For text don’t forget to do object to path. For the file not showing in SVGOMG, it’s generally a pretty finicky piece of software. Can try adjusting precision and zooming in and out, but if you get the conversion from text to path correct then it should solve the problem
every time i do the chrome effect the game gives a solid color only. it wont show the chrome effect, saved to path and saved to svg optimised. the game either makes it a black logo or just the solid color i used like blue and removes the effect of chrome.. help please
did you try to save as optimized svg?
Hi there! Thanks for the video it was very helpful and informative! Just a quick question, I had uploaded a decal using a radial gradient to the decal uploader, on the site browser it looks as intended, but when trying to use the decal in-game the gradient is gone, with just a flat colour present. How should I go about fixing this issue? Thanks. :)
Hey buddy! I’ve had zero luck getting radiator gradients to work. You can try various things with simplification and svgomg but nothing has worked for me 😭😭😭
@@GTJesse Bummer, I'm using Illustrator instead of Inkscape so I'm not sure if that would have anything to do with it. I'll keep trying to have a look into it.
@mooli7777 I’ve recently moved to illustrator for more professional design work but haven’t tested its functionality w/GT7 vectors yet. In Inkscape though radial gradients never really worked for ne
@@GTJesse Just managed to get the gradient itself working in GT7, however the gradient is placed in the wrong part of the shape. Still, progress.
Interesting, that’s cool to hear you’re making it work!
Hello. Every time I try to upload a decal I get "The SVG format is unsupported". The file size is 12.8k and is a SVG so I don't know what the problem is, any help?
Feel free to send me the file and I’ll take a look at it. Unclejesseraces@gmail.com
I just wonder what so many of these other creators are doing. This is all cool but still a surprising amount of work for someone who doesn’t mess with graphic design literally AT ALL lol. There’s so many very high detail graphics that people have made. I’ve noticed that some are created in parts but then there’s others that are fully intact while still being highly detailed. I wanna make my own waifu wrap dammit 😂
I know it man! I’ve become a hobbyist graphic designer thanks to gran turismo 😂. I was definitely overwhelmed by the initial learning curve when I first dipped my toes into it though. Some of those waifus are truly top tier. I haven’t tried to create one myself but it may be something to consider for a future video.
@@GTJesse it just sucks that you can’t just apply a wrap for any car ONTO any car because if we could, I’d happily take the time to adjust sizes and positions for various layers onto cars I actually like lol. And they really are! So many of them look like they’re ripped straight from the shows!!
I just need to upload some relatively very simple logos, with like 2 colors or a logo that’s a white circle w/black outline and 3 letters, black inside the white circle. My main issue is I do not currently have a functional PC. Is there app for iPhone to simply convert a file to SVG? Or a trusted website for converting an image file that will work on my iPhone..? Either way, thank you for the info! 👍
I would try using the app called Linearity Curve. It used to be called vectornator and I actually made a video about it a while back
@@GTJesse Thanks, bub!! Very much appreciated, and I’m gonna lookup the vid you made regarding it. 👊!
@RagnarOdinson absolutely! Best of luck!
I’ve recently returned to gt7…… haven’t played since the early years of GT. I remember making an nfl team livery. I noticed that I don’t see any. Are we not allowed any,ore to use NFL teams?
Welcome back brother! No idea on the NFL teams specifically except that PD does say no copyright, offensive, trademarked, etc decals. The nfl logos may be easier to detect? Not sure though.
@10:21 just uncheck "Compare gzipped" and it will show the real data sizes.
why can't they use PNG files like normal people
It would be great if that was an option
I know this comment is 5 months old but it’s a valid question and someone else might have the same one.
The answer is that PNG files can’t scale infinitely like SVG files. When you scale a PNG up it will become pixelated, when you scale it down it looks a bit better, but it still doesn’t look great. PNG file sizes are also much larger than SVG file sizes so it’s much cheaper to store.
@@TangoKilo3 Honestly, valid response. Thank you 😊
have you every Heard od Japan? 😂
@@kelseysvenson8544 you what
Man I’ve tried this with so many different images. Picking more simplified images each time to try. I can’t get them to show up in svgomg when I get to that step.
Try adjusting some of the sliders in svgomg. You may have the precision up too high
Great video man! Is there any chance to provide us with the one when it comes to uploading a bit more complicated stuff. Like the anime stuff that people are uploading.
Thanks in advance anyway! 😊
Thanks Marko! I’ve honestly never made an anime decal but would be happy to make a tutorial. You’re actually not the first person who’s asked for it so it would probably make sense to go ahead and do the demo. I have a request from you though because my anime extends as far as Pokémon, initial D and some Naruto - is there a certain character or show you’d want to see? It will help me find some direction otherwise I’ll just be pulling something off a random google search :) thanks!
@@GTJesse Thank you so much for answering. Honestly I’m not a fan but they can be a tough job I assume. I would like to try to upload a similar stuff. Thank you so much once again for sharing such useful stuff and helping us! 😀
@@GTJesse I was referring to kind of stuff like those unique vinyls in nfsu for example. There is no specific character. Thank you so much!
What do you press at 4:51 so the white excess background disappears?!
Ok, i found it in another comment. In case someone reading this first: CRTL+SHIFT+R
Yep, you got it!
I have Inscape 0.92 Version and I made some very basic images, just the number 17, nothing fancy and saved it as a few types of SVG file and not one was visible on GT7. I am not sure if it is the version because GT7 talks about accepting SVG versions 1.0 and 1.1 are supported only. So is it because my Inscape version is too old? When I download a newer version of Inscape, it is in Asian Language and I have no idea to make it in English? Nevertheless, I created a very basic image, just the number 17, on the newer version, which did not work either on GT7. No idea what I'm doing wrong. Any help is appreciated.
Did you type out “17” using the text tool? Or sketch/draw it?
@@GTJesse I typed it out using the text tool. Why, is that not allowed 🥹
@@JohnCranberry23 it’s 100% allowed
@@JohnCranberry23that last comment sent too soon. Check out around the 25:00 minute mark and you’ll see the steps to work with text
@@GTJesse Great News! The Version of Inkscape I had was buggy and I finally managed to find an updated Version 1.1 which works and is in English and doesn't crash. So I tested both a simple shape and also watched your video past 25-minute mark and changed the number 17 path etc. as you explained. It also worked and both are accepted onto GT7. I have a question, however. Should I adjust the DPI to 300? I understand SVG files work differently, but I noticed a DPI setting on my older version which said 72 dpi, so I thought maybe I needed to increase the dpi for better quality if I decide to increase the image in GT7? Or should I just increase the size of the image manually or font size to 150 etc. in Inscape? Will it make a difference when using it given that SVG files can tolerate increases when using them as Decals? Do you have a video that talks about the image quality of SVG files? Anyway, appreciate any help. Found you on GT7 and followed you to check out your work. Cheers from Australia.
Is there a reason you would use this software over something like Illustrator?
Purely because it’s free. Illustrator is just fine if you already have a subscription.
Hello, its me again 😅. I've started to do my own decals since i first watched this video (Well done video btw), and you might recall me asking something about the SVGs not loading. I decided to try the chrome effect on my decals, but every upload time the end result is just either normal colouring or just bland black, never the "chrome" effect. Any way to solve this issue?
Hey! With the chrome effect, it’s super important that you add the gradient at the very end of your editing process. If you add the gradient then change something else then it can cause the file to not upload correctly in gt7. Also making sure to save as optimized svg is key, and if you’re still having issues, trying to pass thru svgomg before uploading could help.
Thank you for the response. Apparently fnishing the decal with the gradient solves the issue, when i previously merged all the parts of the decal right before upload. Much appericiated!
@gtmr_karnage6427 the gt7 decal world works in mysterious ways! Glad it worked out for you.
Hello mate, I'm using an Android for making decals for GT7. Today when I try to upload my decal in my GT7 My Page (using chrome) it said "Your browser you are using is not supported." How do I fix this? I already checked the file type, it is .svg as the uploader wants. I also reloaded the website and cleaned my chrome cache but it still didn't work.
I would try to pass it through svgomg first then try to upload it after removing all metadata
This man is not from planet earth lol😅 gonna take me some time to remember this
Hahah you got this bro! 😎💪
I manage to upload the svg file to GT7, but for some reason I can't see it in my gallery so I can share it and use it in the livery editor. Can you help me?
I really need your help, I've already uploaded it by edge, google chrome and it does not work for me, everything changes it to path and it does not work for me. It loads to GT7, but I can't see it in the gallery to use it. @GTJesse
Shoot me an email with the file and I’ll take a look at it, might not be straightaway but I will get back to you 🤙
Unclejesseraces@gmail.com
email sent, hopefully you can see it and tell me it's wrong and how to correct it!@@GTJesse
@stevenipple5590 messaged you back 🤙
Why did I create text in Inkscape and publish it in GT. But GT doesn't display text?
Did you do the Object to Path option?
@@GTJesse I didn’t do this before, after you told me I did it! Thank you!
No problemo! 🤙
I got the same isue, chage to path option and still doesnt display en GT7
I NEED this in Forza Motorsport!
I don’t know anything about Forza but maybe it’s time I learn 🤷♂️
@@GTJesse sadly in Forza Motorsport liveries is based on a limited number of predefined vector shapes which you have to lineup in order to create logos etc.... I really hope that they will include SVG import in the new Motorsport game.
Everything i do files either to big or asoon as i put it through omgsvg ruins it or when i take nodes away it disforms decal why does gt7 have to make things so awkward i have not got hours to sit here and learn a degree just to put a simple decal on a game its so silly
I definitely understand the frustration. Graphic design software and graphic design in general is just hard, and makes me appreciate the work that those guys do that much more
Great video dude and superb directions however the logo I want to create keeps coming out to over 50kb and I cant figure out how to trim the excess using your methods, the file size grows. If anybody else has this problem try a svg file converter instead , it is a free website and it helped me big time! so now that I got my file I just need a PS account to upload to GT7 ?
Hey thanks man, which converter are you using? I tried a few a while back and had mixed results, but I wonder if they’ve since improved. I also use SVGOMG to compress SVG files but that’s a little different than converting. Also if you’re having trouble with the file getting bigger I usually recommend pasting your final, cleaned up vector to a new document and saving that. For some reason it seems like some data gets embedded in the file and can’t get rid of it without saving a new file.
how did you cut the document page into the edges of the sticker in the 7:37
Click the object then CTRL+shift+R for resize
@@GTJessethanks man!! You're a lifesaver
@alexisdayritt cheers buddy 🤙
Hello Jesse, I've watched all your videos and I'm having problems getting my image to fit on GT7 are you willing to help please let me know how I can contact your directly, willing to compensate you for your time thanks
Hey buddy, feel free to email me at unclejesseraces@gmail.com with any questions
4:52 how do you delete the white background?
It just depends on how you do the trace bitmap. If you use multi color and ungroup the output layers, you can just delete whichever layers you don’t want to keep - in this case the white one.
What car did you use for this video?
Nissan Silvia S13, keep an eye out for it in the used car dealership
This is great! Can you tell how to upload complicated decals into GT7?
Cheers buddy! Very complicated decals you have to draw from scratch and sometimes will have to upload in several pieces the combine in the game
@@GTJesse But Ive seen some right in the game, I just took someones style and disassemled it, so I was totally confused - sime pics were really complex with many colors and details! Since then I cant sleep ))))
@@user-be2wr4hq2g I hear you! Those decals are drawn from scratch and then saved as optimized svg
@@GTJesse what is csratch? ...😇
@@user-be2wr4hq2g 20:50
i save them the same way u did n the video but i have an error: This SVG format is not supporte
From what I’ve seen they’re likely too big, double check the file sizes! That’s the catch all error code they like to use
@@GTJesse 7kb
Hmm that’s interesting bro, have you tried running it through SVGOMG?
@@GTJesse i'll try and i'll let you know
how did u do the auto trace please help
Hey buddy if you go through the trace bitmap setting then press apply, the auto trace should work pretty straightforward
@@GTJesse thx
Also if you check out this older video I made a much more in depth tutorial on auto trace
ua-cam.com/video/dronZonXKrQ/v-deo.htmlsi=hOfn6IyqDRH4SOfk
@@X515H yw, good luck
Can i do this on ps4 pro? Or only pc?
Most of the design work would have to be done on a PC. You can do some of it on a tablet or phone too but it’s not the same process.
Kan je me uitleggen waarom ik geen eigen tekst toevoegen.
Greetings Angelino
how to auto trace , i am stuck at that part, 4:52
If you check out this older video I made a much more in depth tutorial on auto trace
ua-cam.com/video/dronZonXKrQ/v-deo.htmlsi=hOfn6IyqDRH4SOfk
I don't understand why they have to make this so incredibly difficult. I tried everything possible to crop and compress an image but the svg doesn't go below 70kb. This blows!!
If it was easy then everyone would do it
@@GTJesse exactly. That means more options
How can i paint my ducking grill on cars!?
Just have to put a decal on it. Can only do some cars though and it’ll often be in the “other” category
This software is free?
100%!
Cars Pixar
4:50, PLS, how?
grab any logo off the web, paste it into Inkscape and do Trace Bitmap 🤙
@@GTJesse no, paste logo and your next step was cut paper around, 4:51
Ahhh! I got you, it’s a keyboard shortcut to resize the document to your object size. The keyboard buttons are Control+Shift+R.
15KB? MINE COME out around 600kb.... Why only 15Kb what is this 1998?
😂😂
jesus. i just wanted to have a decal. I dont wanted to spend years of my life learning this programm, retracing stuff....
It’s better than the Forza uploader so there’s that
Well... beeing better then Forza is the Industry minimum. sooooo...@@GTJesse
Cool job! Can you rate my liveries? My nickname in Gran Turismo 7 Маx 388
10/10 mate! Love your work!
To much work for so litle
It does require some effort yes
Wasted my day with this CRAP should ve never tried it!!!!! 15 KB WHAT A JOKE! A JOKE!!!
🤷♂️
@@GTJesse I managed to , but now it says SVG format not supported 😞😞
I have many decals in GT Sport, so why are they not all load in GT7?
They only carried over a limited number from GT Sport for each user
If I use someone else’s decals in GT7 can I still share my car design?
Definitely!
@@GTJesseoh ok cool. I only asked this because in forza, using someone else’s decals on your car stops you from sharing your design.