Laser Cutting and Design Guide

Note

These are general videos to provide you an introduction to the process. Every makerspace uses a slightly different process, much of which is dictated by the laser hardware.

Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

• Getting Started Guide for Laser Cutting

• Turn a photo into a vector image using illustrator

• Adobe Illustrator: Prepare an Image for Laser Cutting

• How to convert an Image to Vector in illustrator with Image Trace

Inkscape Tutorials

• Inkscape Tutorial: How to turn an Image into a Vector

• How To Vectorize a PNG Logo with Inkscape

• Inkscape Lesson 1 - Interface and Basic Drawing

• Create Bitmap from Web Image