Illustrator is made by adobe. Adobe is known for Photo shop as well. Illustrator is a way to make vinyl and laser images. It uses an image called a vector image that doesn't use pixels but lines and curves. So no matter what size you enlarge the image, it will not get blurry.
Keychain final project
Vinyl Final project
Key chain step by step.
First make a design
Make sure to have the stuff that you want cut out in red .0001 stroke and the stuff you want to engrave in black. This will make a huge difference down the line. If you follow all of thes3e steps you should be able to design whatever you want.
Then load it into the laser program
Make sure you put your material in the top right so it lines up with the program. Then measure the thickness of your material. so that it cuts clean through.
Then cut out your design
The laser will engrave the black and cut out the red.
Vinyl process
Get your design
In this case it is just my name Charlie Kossen.
Load and cut your Vinyl
It will go back and fourth for a few seconds and then you will have your vinyl.
Then put it on the thing you want to put it on.
You use tape called transfer tape to get your decal onto the notebook.
I learned how to use vector images to engrave and cut out images for other stuff. overall i really enjoyed this lesson alot and I hope that I get to do it again.