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Draw something! How to use the Silhouette drawing tools: Lesson 2 — Draw a non-regular shape

October 11, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

In the first lesson in this series, I taught you how to draw a straight line. I included information on how to make it a perfect horizontal, vertical or 45° angle, and how to get rid of that pesky feature where the software keeps drawing shapes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: curve, drawing, polygon, shapes

Point Editing: taming all those little black dots (Lesson 7)

June 29, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette edit points for trace

Here we are in our final lesson on Point Editing. If you need to start at the beginning of this series, go here. In today’s lesson I’m going to give you a few tips on working with points on text, show you how to edit points to help when you’re … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: closed, convert to path, crop, curve, curved, Drawing Tools, edit points, Fill, freehand, magnet trace, modify, open, path, point editing, points, polygon, raster, simplify, smooth freehand, subtract, Text, trace, trace and detach, tracing

Point Editing: taming all those little black dots (Lesson 5)

June 11, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette point editing curve

Today's lesson on Point Editing is probably the most impactful. I'm going to give you all the secrets to adjusting any curve on any shape. If you understand the principles I'll discuss here, you'll save yourself a great deal of frustration as you try … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: bezier, blue box, control handle, corner, curve, curves, edit points, flat, point, point editing, smooth

Point Editing: taming all those little black dots (Lesson 4 Part 2)

June 1, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

point editing corner

This lesson in our series on Point Editing is part 2 of a tutorial on altering line segment types and point types. (To start with Lesson 1 in this series, go here.) In part 1, we talked about the concepts in general. This time, I'll show you how I've … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: corner, curve, edit points, flat, point editing, smooth, trace

Point Editing: taming all those little black dots (Lesson 4 Part 1)

May 30, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette point editing corner

Thus far in our series on Point Editing, we’ve worked with some very general information and done some basic adjusting. (To start with Lesson 1 in this series, go here.) Now it’s time to step it up a bit and dig deeper. In this lesson, which I've … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: corner, curve, edit points, flat, line segment, make curve, make flat, point editing, points, smooth

Point Editing: taming all those little black dots (Lesson 1)

May 16, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette nodes

Did you know you can significantly change the way a shape looks and cuts in Silhouette Studio by manipulating the points and lines that make it up? It’s called Point Editing. This post is the first in a series where I’ll teach you why you want to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: bezier, black dots, control handle, corner, curve, edit points, nodes, point, point editing, select, simplify, smooth

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