What is the best way to transfer images to curved surfaces?

Answer 1

There are several ways, depending on the type of transfers, and material of said transfers, some, you can apply heat to give it some elasticity to form around the curved surfaces, if the transfer can't be heated, you mold the transfer over the curved surface, you will have wrinkles or folds, these are small pie shaped slivers, the trick is to position these folds, (instead of 2 or 3 big folds, make many small folds) in inconspicuous areas of your transfer so you don't ruin your image, these small folds need to be cut, the folds or pie shaped slivers need to be removed. Example: take a protractor, set at 5", draw a 10" circle, draw a line down the center from top to bottom, draw another line across from side to side, this will give you 4 pie shaped sections in the circle, now at a 45 degree angle split the sections again, this will give you 8 pie shaped sections, cut every other section out leaving only 4,(leave a little in the middle to hold the remaining 4 together) now tape the shapes together, you should end up with a bowl shape or dome shape, this is what you will be doing when you transfer to a curved shape, only on a smaller scale.