There is still something I dont understand about FBCT. I have read just about every tutorial I can find but have still have a few questions.
Do you print the design out in reverse so that when you flip it onto the cake it is in the right position?
if not then how do you flip it onto the cake wouldnt it be upside down?
Do my questions make sense? 
lol I am dying to try one but cant figure it out I just read a tutorial with pics but the person doing the tutorial had the picture printed out proper not reverse and didnt show how to flip it onto the cake so I'm wondering did she flip it onto another piece of wax paper with the front of the design down then flip that one onto the cake so it was right side up? I am soooooooo confused 
lol
please any help with be appreciated
Well I did my first one the other day, so I printed it out the way it was supposed to be, only I didn't reverse it cuz there wasn't any writing on it. When you have writing on it, I think you have to reverse it so the writing comes out correct. So when you're tracuing it, the words are backwards for you, but when you flip it onto the cake it'll be the correct way. HTH
I purposly tried one w/out writing to avoid confusion.
But what I dont get is if your looking at the picutre and seeing the details well when you flip it wont all the details then be against the cake and you'll be looking at the bottom side? Am I explaining this right ? I dont know how else to say it. Do you flip it over onto another piece of wax paper so that its reversed then flip it onto the cake so that is the proper way?
Hun the image isn't "upside down" it's a "mirror image" left is right right is left etc.... Now words you have to print in reverse or they will be like words you see in a mirror. (try it, hold up a magazine to a mirror and look at the picture and the words. That is what you get when you make an FBCT. So basically the only thing that you have to worry about reversing (not upside down) is letters
When you're doing a fbct or chocolate transfer you're dealing in 2-d and you're thinking in 3-d! If you have an image of a face and you flip the image (I do this in photoshop) you're only going to see the face but in the opposite direction.
Here's an example of the Grinch and then I'll post the reveresed image that you would be looking at to make your fbct
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=sweetviolent&cat=0&pos=1
this is'nt words but same idea -when i printed the pic of this house in mirror-the garage was on the opposite side. when i flipped it it was back on the correct side just like the grinches arm
also you have to think in terms of layering
on my house the porch went down first-then the windows( they are behind the porch) then the house color was last so when i had the fbct done you couldnt see what it was till it was flipped onto the cake!!
tks sweet I think that was my problem I wasnt thinking in layers. After I logged off of here I starting thinking maybe they mean slide it onto the cake not flip it onto the cake but now that you say you do it layers I think I understand it better. Will have to give it a try. Thanks everyone for your help and patience
With a FBCT you see what is on the bottom so study the image and be sure to fill in first what you want to be seen. Then layer the other parts as it would be seen. For example: for an eye you would put the dot for the pupil on first, the next layer would be the white of the eye. If you did it the other way around, the pupil wouldn't show because it would be on top of the white and therefore "under" the white layer once it was turned over.
The transfer doesn't slide on the cake, it is turned over and placed on the cake, bottom side up. Once you complete the image you can add a thin layer of the color of icing that is the same as the top of the cake. Then freeze. This makes the transfer stronger and will blend with the top of the cake easier. A border around the transfer is often done also. Is this what is confusing?
There is a really good tutorial about chocolate transfers that shows step by step about layering. Try to look at it for that part of it. (Chocolate transfer is very similar to FBCT in the layering part, using melted candy, chocolate, wafers) The tutorial I am thinking about shows a tigers face. Hopes this helps. 
WEll thanks everyone but I'm no further ahead than when I started lol I still dont get it, if the image has has face for instance and you flip it over then you've got the back of the head not the face Oh well as I said call me dumb but I give up lol
Make sure you do all of teh details first.... it's a layering process. Usually, there are eyes and eye details you do first. When you have built up on each of the details of layers then you can smooth the whole thing with one color.
HTH,
Kat
I'm amazed every time I log on here at how helpful everyone is. This place rocks 
also..if you outline everything you don't even really need to think in layers. I usually just work on the smaller areas first and think of it as coloring in a picture..if there are narrow or small areas I do them first just because it's easier to see them before the bigger areas are done.
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