Concrete paint software#

In Adobe Illustrator, I did that by drawing lines over my design and using Pathfinder's divide function to split it into slices. So, since my vinyl cutter cuts a maximum width of 22 inches, and my mural design spans 4 ft x 9 ft, I had to divide my design into slices and cut each slice individually. My mural was way too large to cut out the whole design in one go on the laser cutter. Make sure to set up the digital vector file correctly according to your vinyl cutter's instructions. I used Adobe Illustrator to plan my design. But if you're going to cut your design out of vinyl using a vinyl cutter like I did, you're definitely going to need a vector graphics editing program.

Concrete paint software#

If you're going to cut out your stencil by hand, then using software is just optional. One mural is an illustration of four bears holding a canoe, and the other mural depicts a row of three bears surrounded by the word 'concrete' in multiple languages. I made two murals, using both the masking tape method and the vinyl cutting method. I'll discuss this process in further detail in Step 4. There are two ways to make your stencil: by cutting it out yourself with masking tape and an X-acto knife, or by cutting it out of vinyl with a vinyl cutter.

We will paint our design onto our wall using a stencil.

We will use this to make a stencil for applying the concrete. Sketch your idea by hand on paper or with a graphics editor such as Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.