Windshield art instruction

I was asked on another forum how I did my windshield graphics, so I thought I would post it for anyone that might be interested.
You'll first need to know what you want on the shield, whether you want to have a custom graphic done at a graphics shop, your best bet would be to try to work out what design you want and get an idea on a flash drive before you go there, their time is valuable. My first one I worked with a truck window graphic and was able to carefully cut and paste it to where the edges were able to go under the hardware.
Either way you go, preparation is the key to having it work right. I clean the front of the windshield thoroughly, I usually will use plain rubbing or denatured alcohol, avoid anything that can leave any kind of residue.
The next step is to determine how you want the windshield to look, play with different locations with the main theme until you get it to what you want it to look like like. Then determine the center of the windshield, and the center of the graphic, peel back the backing to the half way point of the graphic and apply it to the windshield, it is usually pretty strong, but you want to lift and reposition as little as possible. Use either a soft squeegee, or the edge of you hand, holding the graphic out and smoothing from center to the edges, you will have to lift it most likely but keep the graphic as smooth as possible, the smoother it is, the less likely it will be to pull up in a wind, I've had all of mine up to 80 mph with none of them ever lifting. When the first side is as smooth as possible, start with the other side, also keeping it as smooth as possible while peeling the backing off. When you are happy with the results, you will want to have a very sharp utility knife and trim the graphic right on the edge of the windshield, try to make sure none will hang over the edge.
You can call that finished, and, it will hang on great, what I've done on a couple of mine is get some door edge trim at an auto parts store to put a "finishing touch" to the edge. They usually have either chrome or black, I've used both and it will all depend on the look you want. I've found that it will make this step go much easier, is to start pressing the edge molding on from the back of the windshield, so that it will come down over the edge of the graphic rather than pushing the edge of the graphic up. That will make more sense when you do it.
To get the windshield to thoroughly adhere, I usually let them set in the sun you may have to carefully warm it with a hairdryer on low setting, you don't want to bake it on just set the adhesive on the graphic.
That's what worked for me and I've done 9 windshields so far, and have 4 more to do,

Doc