IllustratorIt's in 2D, dude!
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Intro to Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator is a vector drawing program, used for creating things like decals and models. This isn't like your Paint or Photoshop (well, it's kinda like the latter), both of which offer full scale raster drawing tools. Currently, I'm using Illustrator 4 (for Windows 3.1) at home and Illustrator CC 2016-or-so at school. Going off of the former, it works pretty much like Paint, only instead of just pixels, it's math AND pixels.
My Vinyl Project
For this, we were supposed to create a decal. Of course, a decal needs a surface (preferably flat), so I stuck it on a netbook. Then on what to make the decal of, I jumped immediately to a realistically scaled floppy disk (1.44MB IBM Format, 3.5"). This was surprisingly easy to design, since it's just straight lines and very subtle rounding on the corners.
Results
So...it came out nicely, other than the slanting, and the fact that it bubbled up shortly after it's application. But, it does hold very well. If I were to do this again, though, I'd do it on a nicer, less scratchy surface, and I'd probably go with something that didn't have a bubble-loving rectangle in the center.
On doing this in Illustrator, it seemed really fast and easy to make the design, and subsequently get it cut out, taking literal seconds. Overall, It's really only a bit harder than MS Paint, since you still work with lines, circles, and other shapes, but they can be scaled perfectly.
On doing this in Illustrator, it seemed really fast and easy to make the design, and subsequently get it cut out, taking literal seconds. Overall, It's really only a bit harder than MS Paint, since you still work with lines, circles, and other shapes, but they can be scaled perfectly.