Thoughts on the Project
In the beginning but as the project progressed it became easier to understand because I knew how to use Illustrator from past projects. I decided I wanted to make a vinyl cutout of the Milwaukee Bucks logo on my calculator. This project was very entertaining.
How I made It
Step 1
Go On Google and find the picture you want to have as your vinyl. Copy and paste that image on to Adobe Illustrator. Step 2 Create the correct sizes for the vinyl and the correct line color and size. After doing that, Image Trace the entire image and select 3 colors. Once finished tracing the image, Ungroup the image into matching colors, line them up and group them all back together. Step 3 Save the image to your USB Drive and put the Drive in the Vinyl machine computer. Step 4 When it is sent over to the vinyl machine, print it and peel the image out of the colored paper of your choice. Once the vinyl cutout is fully peeled out of the paper, put the vinyl on transfer tape and squeegee the image to the tape. Step 5 When the vinyl is completely on the transfer tape, put the tape on whatever you want your vinyl on! |
What was learned/summary
Making this vinyl cutout was extremely fun because I have seen many vinyl cutouts without even knowing that it is a vinyl cutout! At the beginning I did not understand how to use the vinyl cutter and now I do!