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Software Basics (version 4) – Lesson 15: Saving your work and shutting down

October 5, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

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This is your last lesson in the Software Basics series. Give yourself a cheer! You’re well on your way to becoming a Silhouette expert. Since you’re going to be creating some amazing things, let’s talk about saving those files. You can save in 1 of 3 … [Read more...]

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Software Basics (version 4) — Lesson 13: Basics of working with text

September 23, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

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Text in Silhouette Studio is different than most other software programs. You may be used to working with text in something like a word processor or even email. In those, you add text just to make words for someone to read or to print out. That's not … [Read more...]

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Software Basics (version 4) — Lesson 11: Getting your free shapes

September 20, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Your Silhouette cutting machine comes with free shapes to get your started. They are stored in the machine itself. So we're going to open the software and hook up the machine to bring them into your library. We'll do your first projects with some of … [Read more...]

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Software Basics — Lesson 7: Right Click Menus

July 10, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

A right click, or context, menu is a one that pops up when you perform a right click in a software or on a website. All software programs and internet browsers have right click menus. What is in those menus varies, but you have a set of limited … [Read more...]

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Software Basics — Lesson 6: Drop Down Menus

July 7, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

This is lesson 6 in our series about getting to know the Silhouette Studio software. You can start with lesson 1 here. Today, we'll be talking about drop down menus. Note: This post may contain affiliate links. That means if you click the link and … [Read more...]

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Software Basics — Lesson 5: The mouse and cursors

July 6, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

It's time to learn how to get around in the software. Think of the next few lessons like Driver's Ed: you've done some of the classroom work and now you're ready to get in the car and figure out how to adjust the mirrors, put it in gear, etc. We've … [Read more...]

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Software Basics — Lesson 4: Choosing how your drawing area looks with grid settings

July 4, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Now that you've set up your page and chosen your mat, it's time to choose how your drawing area looks. (To start with Lesson 1 of this series, go here.) In this lesson I'm going to show you all the options in the Grid tab of the Page Setup panel. … [Read more...]

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Software Basics — Lesson 2: The Icons

June 30, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

In this lesson we are going to learn about each of the icons in the software. (To start with Lesson 1 of the Software Basics series, go here.) An icon is a little picture that, when you click on it, enables a tool or opens a panel on the right … [Read more...]

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