{"id":689,"date":"2008-10-24T13:09:48","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T21:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/?p=689"},"modified":"2008-10-24T13:14:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T21:14:51","slug":"craft-day-for-the-arcade-cabinet-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2008\/10\/craft-day-for-the-arcade-cabinet-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Craft Day for the arcade cabinet owner."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1) Buy a handful of acrylic photo keychains.<\/strong> I went with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/store\/product.jsp?CATID=100387&#038;navAction=jump&#038;navCount=1&#038;id=prod3156684#\">Lifestyles Photo Keytags<\/a> that Walgreens sells, two for three bucks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) Download flyers for your cabinet.<\/strong> The <a href=\"http:\/\/arcadeflyers.com\/\">Arcade Flyer Archive<\/a> is a perfect resource, and you&#8217;ll want to find two good pages, for both the front and back sides of the keychain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) Clean up and resize the artwork.<\/strong> Some of the scans can be pretty rough, so if you&#8217;ve got the knowhow, now is the part where you&#8217;ll want to do any color correction and blemish removal from the flyer artwork, otherwise don&#8217;t worry about it, they&#8217;ll turn out fine enough. Once everything looks good, size &#8217;em down. If you&#8217;re using the Walgreens keytags, you&#8217;ll want the <em>print<\/em> size to be 2&#215;2.875 inches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4) Create a printing template.<\/strong> If you have Photoshop, feel free to use <a href=\"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/Arcadeflyer_printtemplate.psd.zip\"> the one I made<\/a>, formatted roughly to size and for 4&#215;6 glossy photo paper.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5) Print your artwork.<\/strong> Let your printouts dry for a bit, then trim as needed. Place the front and back flyer images in the keytag, snap in the acrylic cover, loop in your cabinet keys and you&#8217;re good to go!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2153\/2970277670_8ab6c664c4.jpg\" alt=\"Arcade flyer keychains\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) Buy a handful of acrylic photo keychains. I went with the Lifestyles Photo Keytags that Walgreens sells, two for three bucks. 2) Download flyers for your cabinet. The Arcade Flyer Archive is a perfect resource, and you&#8217;ll want to find two good pages, for both the front and back sides of the keychain. 3) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,38,50,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcade","category-crap-i-buy","category-indiegaming","category-restoration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}