Question about Cutting

[mustangfanatic 0]

Hey Everyone,

I need a little help.  I am pretty new to cutting.  I have a creation p cut with the Flexi 8.5 Starter software. 

My questions is,  If I take a regular .jpeg image of a customers  logo, how do I prepare it for cutting? I have illustrator and photoshop also.  Thanks.

[Marko 0]

First you need to vectorize it, probaply modify it, break all the colours apart and weld by colour, create a hairline on each colour and cut each colour.

[dustinjtrr 0]

Depends on the image really.  Sometimes you can get away with just using live paint in Illustrator. 

Is it a single color logo?  Is there a lot of text?  Is there a lot of small detail? What resolution is the jpeg?

[mustangfanatic 0]

There is white and blue but I will am cutting it in one color for now.  It is mostly text with a small round logo.  Not much detail. 

[mustangfanatic 0]

First you need to vectorize it, probaply modify it, break all the colours apart and weld by colour, create a hairline on each colour and cut each colour.

I am new to illustrator.  Do you have any tutorials on doing that?

[Marko 0]

Sorry, can

[tlzimmerman 11]

There are some video tutorials on here for using Inkscape to do this sort of thing, some made by me.  I have illy and I use inkscape exclusively...for whatever reason I just liked it better and I consistantly got better results quick when using it that illustrator....thats just my opinion though I am sure you will see some from the other side.  Inkscape is free and open source so you can give it a try if you want, thats the beautiful thing about it is its free. 

I know there is alot of videos on the net for illustrator live trace, I suggest a google or youtube search and you will find lots if you want to continue to use illustrator.