Hello, Apple Valley fab lab students. It's Mr. Lee. Today what we're going to do is create a heat
press file with our print cut machine for making a t-shirt. The first thing that I'm going to do
is go to chrome and search for an image. I kind of already did that. I put in the child since
the Mandalorian is kind of a fun show right now. What I found was this picture here. It has a
really good um image of the child (or baby Yoda as everybody calls him) What's more important is
the background. It's real uniform and so that's going to allow us to do a cut contour. So what I'm going
to do now? I'm going to right click on this and then I'm going to save the image. I'm going to
just call it "the child" you'll notice that it's a png file but that's okay. I'm going to show you
today how to change that (so that we can use it in adobe illustrator). I'll save that to the desktop.
Next what I'm going to do is open up adobe photoshop.
I'm going to directly open that (that file) that png file. So I'll scroll down to
"the child" there it is.
The first thing that I'm going to do is
make this background a uniform color. I'm going to select the fill. I'm going
to change that to this color (looks like a good color) that's not like anything else around it.
Click ok, and then I selected the paint bucket tool, then I'm just going to dump
that into the background. That looks pretty good. The next step is I'm going to use the magic wand tool.
I'm going to select that green background.
Then I'm going to go up to file, and copy no, edit and copy.
The next step to create a new file with that clipboard that I just copied to.
I'm going to go file, new. You notice I have in adobe
illustrator 2020? The option of creating a new file with the clipboard, so I'm going to say create,
and then I'm going to paste that in. So I go edit and paste.
The next step is to fill in this white area with a black color. I'm going to go to
the paint bucket, select that, I clicked on black, I'm going to hit fill. That's going to be my cut
contour for telling the machine what to cut. Last step is I'm going to re switch
this to white. I'm going to go down to here, and set the foreground color to white.
and I'll hit
the double arrow (switches it) and then I'll
select that white background. So now this is ready to be saved. I'm going to save this
as a jpeg on my computer.
You notice it comes up as a photoshop file for default. Well I'm going to change it to
a jpeg because then I can bring it into adobe illustrator and edit it. I'm going to call it "the
child" and then hit save. I always set this to maximum, so I get the best quality for my jpeg image.
Since it's a compressed image. The last thing to do? I'm going to return this back to
a white background. Then I'm going to save this as a jpeg 2 (because it's a png
file and I don't want it to be a png) because adobe illustrator I can't
place png files. So change that to a jpeg. I'll hit save oop I needed to change that other one, as a
the outline file. I'm going to change this and put color (because that's my full color image).
and then I'll hit save. Same thing I always
change it to maximum. Now I have my two files ready for using an adobe illustrator.
I switch over to adobe illustrator. I'm going to create a new
file and I'm going to make this about 12 by 12. For my height and width.
The color type doesn't really matter for
the print and cut machine. So I can leave this at RGB (or I can do CYMK) but I'll hit create.
The next step, I always turn on rulers. So turn that on for reference. Then
that was control and the r key, and then control and the quote key, or comma key turns on the grid.
I already have a couple things open. I have my transform window. I have my swatches
window. I have my layers window. I use those quite a bit, they're kind of a good
windows to have open when you're working. You can get those windows open by hitting
the window tab, and then scrolling down for all these different windows. The next step is to
place the background image, and that one is the jpeg. I'm going to hit file, place
and it doesn't really matter where you place this because we're going to move it around eventually.
Then I go up to image trace, and if you hit the down arrow, you have all the different choices.
On how to trace it but this one? I'm going to just use the default because I just want black and white.
The blue line means, the blue x means that it's still not part of the file. I have to
after image tracing do expand. Now it's part of the file. I do want to get rid of this white
rectangle. I'm going to right click on that, isolate the group, and then click on
that again, hit the backspace (or the delete) key. That gets rid of that part of the image.
Next step is to outline this. So I'm going to go into window and then pathfinder and open up that
menu. I'll select the black image, and you can tell that it's been selected because it has the blue
lines around it. Then in layers, you'll notice that it, it's the only path that I have selected.
Then I go into pathfinder and I'll hit outline and that reverses (it takes out all of the
fill) so you notice that the fill is gone but the stroke is black. For cutting, We need to make that
a command for the machine. So I'm going to select this other swatch library to turn that
to the correct color for cutting but before I do that? I want to make this background
to be able to be put on any kind of shirt. (any color shirt) so I'm going to do what's called an
offset path (and you don't have to do this) but it is kind of a neat trick for, um making sure that
the heat press (you put on any color shirt) will be viewable.
sometimes the image is not good enough to be seen because it blends into the
fabric of the shirt. I'm going to select that, it's still selected. I'm going to go up to
object, and path, and then go to offset path, and you can see it already has the preview open.
That's a little bit too big so I'm going to change it to about .05.
For the the size of it, that looks better. I'm gonna leave that. So it made my image just a
little bit bigger than the original. What I'm gonna do next then is delete the inside portion of it.
I will select that inside path
I'm going to hit the backspace key (or the delete key or you could turn it off too).
You could do that, and turn it off and then the machine doesn't even know it's there.
Last thing to do I selected the
path and I'm going to go to my other libraries and open up roland versaworks.
This first button is the cut contour. You notice that change the stroke to
pink, and that's what I want. So that's ready to go. All we need to do is put the colored image in.
I am going to do one thing too, next. You notice, I just noticed that it has this
little cutout in here. I don't really want that so I'm going to right click on it, isolate
(or release the compound path) then I can just select that and delete it.
I hit the backspace key and now I won't have to weed that portion once I print the image.
So that looks pretty good. The next thing to do is to bring in the colored image.
I'm going to go file, place and go to "the child color"
and hit place. Same thing it doesn't matter where I put it because I'm going to arrow
it around once I get it put in here. This time I'm going to do a full color image.
So I'm going to hit image trace. I'll do high fidelity photo it takes a little bit to do that.
Then what I'm going to do next
is expand it, and finally take out the white rectangle because I won't need that anymore.
so I'm going to hit expand
and then I'll right click and isolate the selected group.
I'll click on the white rectangle and I'll hit the backspace key or the delete key.
This is almost ready to go. I did forget to move the image outline out of the way. We're still in
isolation mode. so I'm gonna probably have to move that around a little bit. I'm gonna select that
and I'm going to arrow it around so that it (or move it) so that it fits right into my
cut contour. You notice, I'll zoom out, with the control on the
minus key. I can play around with the positioning a little bit.
I'll probably move it up a little. I'm using the arrow keys to move it
around. That looks pretty good.
Yeah, not bad. I have this white border if I zoom in? You can see that the cut contour is this line.
and it, it will leave this white border around it once it's printed and cut. I'm just kind
of scrolling through to look at that. Looks pretty good. I'm going to double click now, I'll zoom out.
You can kind of look at the whole effect and this is that one spot that I deleted the cut line
So that'll be white but that's okay. That that doesn't look too bad. Then I'm gonna last
step is go to object and artboards (and fit to artwork bounds) then I save it as a pdf file.
I'm going to call it "The Child" no, what we should do? save it how I've told you to save things...SO
It'd be: l-e-e capital "C" (for my first name) and then I'm going to call this for my fifth hour class....Video stopped.
ask teacher how to save work.