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Photo crop in Silhouette Studio: how and why to do it

July 6, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

trace and detach

I’ve been working on a gift for some dear friends who moved away and are now returning to our home turf.  I’m creating the design in Silhouette Studio and saving it as a JPEG so that I can get it printed professionally on a coffee mug. Today, I want … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: crop, draw curved shape, draw freehand, draw smooth freehand, edit points, Fill, jpeg, magnet trace, modify, photo, photo crop, photo editing, point editing, raster, trace, trace and detach

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 6 Part 3)

June 22, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette point editing open paths

Now that we’re on Lesson 6, are you becoming an expert at Point Editing? (If you have stumbled onto this lesson and haven’t gone through the previous ones, start here.) In Part 2 of this lesson, I showed you how to break and join paths to fix broken … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: break path, edit points, join path, line, open paths, path, point editing, pop up, red dots, score, Sketch, slit

Point Editing: taming all those little black dots (Lesson 6 Part 2)

June 20, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette editing points

I hope you’re learning how much you can alter your designs in Silhouette Studio by editing points. If you haven’t gone through the previous lessons in this series, start here. Otherwise, this lesson won’t make much sense. In Part 1 of this lesson, we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: black dots, break path, edit points, join path, open design, paths, point editing, points, red dots, trace, tracing

Point Editing: taming all those little black dots (Lesson 6 Part 1)

June 15, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette point editing breaking paths

Today we're digging even deeper into the world of Point Editing in Silhouette Studio. We're going to look at the concept of breaking and joining paths. We'll talk about when you need to use these techniques, plus what open shapes are and how to close … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: break, close, closed, Compound Path, edit points, Fill, grouping, join, open, paths, point editing, points, red dots

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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