I decided that I wanted to use the heart from my mastheads and strap-line as the front cover of my zine. I thought I would try Laser cutting the heart out to give a peep a boo effect. I arranged an appointment to see the laser cutting expert. Before the appointment we had to scan our images into illustrator on to a template that Chris had made for us. Using this template I had to chose how I wanted my image to be cut there were a few options I could have chose for it all to be cut out or only some of the image or to be engraved or sketched. I wanted to originally get the image cut out but my image wasn’t all joined together so I couldn’t do that. So I decided to get the image engraved on to card. So that meant I had to make the image green.
I then went and had the image cut, I had it cut onto card as that is what I’m having my Zine made out from. Unfortunately it didn’t show up at all on black card so I tried white, It did work but there were some holes where the lines had been drawn together. Even though I wanted to use it for my front cover I had chosen against it, as it doesn’t look very good. So I’m going to just use the scanned image as my front cover. However I did really like the laser cutting machine and now I know how to use it, I will hopefully be using it in the future.
