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What in the world??? When the shape won’t let you change its fill color

September 15, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff

I LOVE LOVE LOVE mystery/detective shows, particularly British ones. And I really enjoy doing puzzles and playing games where I have to solve a problem. Lots of folks do. But very few of us like to have to solve a mystery when working with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: color, detach lines, Fill, line, modify, open path

What in the world??? Shape won’t fill with color (or doesn’t act right when it does)

September 11, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff

Have you ever encountered a real head-scratcher in Silhouette Studio? That’s what this series is about — explaining those and showing you how to fix them. Today, I’ll show you why sometimes you just can’t get a shape to fill with color. Or, you do, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: closed, color, drawing, Fill, open, point editing, points

Can you turn a print and cut design into a regular cut?

January 9, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff

You can almost always take a regular cut shape and turn it into a print and cut design. But the opposite is not always true. Some print and cut images from the Silhouette Design Store (←this is an affiliate link, meaning if you click on it and buy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: color, Fill, image effects, Print and Cut, silhouette design store

Custom Color Palettes in Silhouette Studio Version 4.3

November 19, 2019 By Cindy Eckhoff

silhouette custom color palette

Have you ever wanted to be able to save custom colors in Silhouette Studio — make your own custom color palette? Then today is your lucky day! Note: This post may contain affiliate links. That means if you click the link and purchase something, I may … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: color, custom, Fill, palette

Drawing filled shapes or text: 2 ways to select attributes beforehand

November 28, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff

I don’t know about you, but I always work with filled shapes. Unfilled shapes are harder to move around, you can’t easily see front to back order, and you don’t know if you have groupings or compound paths (which makes a HUGE difference when you use … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: attributes, color, default, Fill, filled, font, line color, preferences, Text

Cutting Checklist

September 14, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff

This post is part of my Checklists series. Each post in the series is a set of brief reminders to help you remember the sequence of steps to use as you work on a project. With each checklist, I provide links to more information about the topics. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: action, advance cut mode, blade, checklist, color, cut, cut style, cutting, Fill, force, line, line segment overcut, mat, material, passes, pause, resume, settings, simple cut mode, speed

Get it together, man! 6 tips to make a project more cohesive

September 10, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff

silhouette scrapbook page

Have you ever looked at a project someone else made and thought, “Why does theirs look so professional and pulled together while mine doesn’t?” Or have you ever liked all your pieces individually, but when you put them together they just don’t look … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: cohesive, color, coordinate, design, project, undertone

7 tricks to make a multi-piece project more interesting

September 6, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff

I remember when I first started paper crafting. I would put together a card or scrapbook page and then look at it and think, “BORING!” What is it that makes a project look interesting and finished? It doesn’t just happen. Some folks have a natural … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: alignment, balance, color, depth, diagonal, fonts, interesting, mix, paper, pattern, placement, size, texture, thirds, triangle, tricks

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Version 4 Send Area: #6 — Cut Order

March 4, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff

Today’s lesson is about another way to add flexibility in your cut job when you use the advanced cut mode — cut order. Cut order is the sequence in which the machine cuts the shapes in your project. When you cut by line color, fill color or layer, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: action, action by, color, cut order, cut settings, Fill, layer, line, pauses, send, Sketch, Sketch pen

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Version 4 Send Area: #5 — Action by: Line, Fill or Layer

March 2, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff

silhouette cut by fill color

Now that you know the basics of the Send area, it’s time to get into advanced options with Action by: Line, Fill or Layer (Advanced Cut Mode in version 3). In these modes, you choose your cut settings for each shape based on its line color, its fill … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: action, action by, auto weld, color, Compound Path, cut, cut preview, cut settings, cut view, Designer Edition, Fill, Fill Color, gradient, grouping, layer, layers, line, line color, no cut, pattern, send, Sketch, Sketch pen, tool, weld

Software basics (version 4) — Lesson 12: Adding shapes to the page and basic manipulation

September 22, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff

silhouette add shape

You’ve got your free shapes in your library and you’ve learned how to get around in the Silhouette Studio software. Let’s learn how you put those images on the page and start working with them. (If you need to start with Lesson 1 of the Software … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: Basic, beginner, color, Compound Path, cut line, Fill, grouping, order, resize, scale, select, ungroup

Fill ‘er up! The hows and whys of color, gradient and pattern fill

December 8, 2016 By Cindy Eckhoff 4 Comments

I don’t know about you, but as a visual person I find it hard to visualize what my projects will look like with just red lines on a plain white background.  I love the fact that I can use the fills within Silhouette Studio to get a better idea of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Content Tagged With: color, Fill, Fill Color, fill gradient, fill pattern, gradient, pattern

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