The image in the right is a leather keychain. For the project itself we were suppose to engrave a raster turned vector image onto the keychain. To help make the image the right size I had to use the bitmap process to make the outline of the keychain. We also did this so that This had some trial and error in that I needed to remove all color from the image. It failed a couple of times resulting in the image filling the entire picture and other times removing the keychain entirely. After lots of trial and error though I was able to get just the outline and after resizing it to measure the same size as the real keychain, the outline was able to help me resize the design to fit tit.

On the right is the final result and on the left is the test cut. We all had to cut out on the same piece of cardboard and where given certain places to cut on it. I positioned the object by using the measurements on the laser cutter to find where to place the design. To position the design on Corel draw to the correct position I used the x and y axis's. The test it self didn't come out as originally expected. Some of the colors did blend together creating a result where the image was more engraved in some places then others. I tried to mess around with the image before cutting on leather but I couldn't figure out how to do it. I decided to just cut and hope for the best.  For the leather I removed the outline and placed the leather into the laser cutter along with changing the settings to what was needed for rastering leather. When I did cut it the result was better than expected. The process of rastering is different then what I had done with vectoring in one simple step. The bitmaps. The bitmaps add different types of shading for rastering while vectoring only cuts.