Hello world. My background includes lots of photoshop, but no illustrator. I have a friend who will print some vinyl pixel art for me, and his machine will cut the edges, and I need some help.
I created my pixel art in photoshop by taking the sprites I wanted, enlarging them, and then arranging them on a canvas to maximize the use of it so that little space was wasted. - See screenshot - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9133696/Print%20overall.png
I created a work path in photoshop that I would like to use for my cut path. see screenshot - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9133696/work%20path.png
I then flattened my image, and opened it in illustrator, then selected the path in photoshop with the path selection tool and dragged it over to the file in illustrator ( https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9133696/move%20path.png ) resulting in a compound shape.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9133696/compound%20shape%20over%20 art.png
and then lined it up to the right edges.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9133696/edges%20lined%20up.png
And the result is this comound shape that outlines all of the cuts that I want made. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9133696/result.png
The problem is that his printer needs a "Path" as the cutline, and cant use the "Compound Shape". I need a Path in the same shape as this Compound Shape, and I dont want to manually go in an draw it around all of these corners! It would seem like if I have the outline, it would be easy to use that to create a path, however, I have no illustrator experience, and this needs to hit the printer today! Please help!