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Designing Stickers…. starting point
What’s the best way to design print and cut stickers?
I’d normally do designs for banners in photoshop so I can use effects but since i’m wanting to design stickers that won’t be a straight forward square or rectangle then what’s the best software to use?
Or should I start in photoshop then import it into illustrator to create the outline??
Cheers
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8 Replies
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John
you have answered the question yourself, use the design features of PS then create the cut line in IllyKev
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Why not start and finish in illustrator?
Peter
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Illustrator can’t give me the effects that i’m after…. can it?
It’s more just getting the cutline to fit the custom design/shape
I’m crap at this 👿
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If you prefer to use Photoshop, you can create a cut path using the pen tool,
and export the path to Illustrator for use in your cutting software, as it retains vector information. -
Do all your vector design in Illustrator and save it. Then export as an AI or Eps into Photoshop and put on all your effects, Bevels, Fades etc. Save as a Jpeg or Tiff and import back into Illustrator and you will have all the original vector lines to use over the top as cuts or masks as needed.
We do all our work like this in Flexisign which is the same sort of thing then import as an Eps into Photoshop to add any bitmap effects. We do this with text as we can get all the kerning, layout and spacing more accurate in Flexisign. -
quote Martin Oxenham:Do all your vector design in Illustrator and save it. Then export as an AI or Eps into Photoshop and put on all your effects, Bevels, Fades etc. Save as a Jpeg or Tiff and import back into Illustrator and you will have all the original vector lines to use over the top as cuts or masks as needed.
We do all our work like this in Flexisign which is the same sort of thing then import as an Eps into Photoshop to add any bitmap effects. We do this with text as we can get all the kerning, layout and spacing more accurate in Flexisign.When I import it back into illustrator it gives me a square bounding box rather than the outline that I started with
Also how do I setup/create a cutline in illustrator? I have it setup in corel but means switching to my pc just to add the cutline so would be better if I had the feature in illustrator
Cheers
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yes john it will be a oblong just place the cut path over the bitmap and send the lot to the versa
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Yes it will give you a bounding box thats because its now a bitmap file.
Just put the cut line over the top. I’am not sure how you create a cut line in Illustrator as we use flexi. I think you have to Name a colour as cutpath and use that as a cut line. I’am sure someone here will Know that.
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