What is Illustrator?
Illustrator is a program that can be used to make digital designs and art. In this project we used it to design a key-chain and a decal for our designer notebook. Professionals use it to make logos and art for big company's or just for there persona used.
How I Made My key chain
I first copied a vector image on google and pasted it on my Adobe Illustrator page then I made sure it was a vector using the image trace tool.
So the laser can read the file you have to have the stroke be red at .0001 pt, make sure this is only the part that you want to be cut out.
next you use the laser software to have laser machine actually "print" it. It is important to make sure all you're settings are correct.
Once I choosed my acrylic I lined it all up and printed it.
And this is my final key-chain, I really like the way it cam out.
My Decal
We used a vinyl cutter like this one for our name tags.
We had to write our names on the adobe illustrator file, and then we cut them out.
These are the tools we used to apply the decal to the not book.
And this is the final product.
What I learned is that Adobe illustrator is a very cool program that it is capable of many things. I will definitely get better at it as I have more experience.