Greetings, I share with this community the activity that I have realized as an university assignment of the University Oberta de Catalunya also known as UOC.The assignment was about doing a vinyl for the glass facade of a store that belongs to an NGO.

Supplies

The silhouettes will be emptied by using vinyl plotter cutting.

Step 1:

Let 's start!

The first thing to do is to get a photograph or a vector original, there’s no difference between each other so you can choose whichever you want.

Step 2:

After that we’ll cut the part that we want from the picture,I did that using a photoshop program, with the thool “magic wand” by selecting the subject, this way the program selects only the cat in this case, after that we apply the clipping mask.

Step 3:

Next we save the picture as a JPEG or a PNG.

Step 4:

Following we open it through a program that must be a vector graphics editor, in my case I used Illustrator with the thool of image tracing using the silhouette option.

Step 5:

This is the result.

Step 6:

Afterwards we use the command “ctrl + y” so the image becomes inverse as you can see in right below.

Step 7:

Next we invert the traze colors and the fill.

Step 8:

So the silhouette ends up like this, next thing is to choose the traze thickness wich goes according to your own criteria.

Step 9:

The rest is up to you, I personally will use the vinyl for lettering purposes with a pink color and the plotter cut in the silhouettes. In the lettering I will use a green vinyl behind so it creates contrast. In order to finish, It is very important for you to export the file to SVG format.

Introduction: Vinyls ONG