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Flawed design from the Silhouette Design Store: how to get the corrected version

March 25, 2019 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Last week I shared several ways to alter a design to fit your project, and I used the Silhouette Design Store's free weekly design as a sample. I pointed out several problems with a design and showed how to fix them. You can find that post here. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Design Store, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: flawed design, free, library, point editing, silhouette design store, sync

Dispelling Text Myths in Silhouette Studio: 30 Misconceptions about words, letters and fonts (part 3)

August 15, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

samantha glyphs in silhouette

In our series about working with text in Silhouette, we’ve already busted 10 common myths. If you haven’t read those, then start here. The 5 myths we’re talking about today are 5 more about fonts. They deal with how fonts are organized and working … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: character map, fancy letters, folder, font, font book, fonts, glyph, glyphs, library, Sketch, sketch font, Text, text style, words

Pattern fill pizzazz: 7 ways to put your own graphic into any shape (misc. info)

May 4, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette pattern fill

We've learned the 7 different ways to put a raster image into any shape, but we aren't done yet. (To start with lesson #1 in this series, go here.) There are some critical tidbits of info you'll need to know in order to use these methods successfully … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: cut, cut style, Fill, folder, import, library, merging, no cut, pattern, pattern fill, raster

Pattern fill pizzazz: 7 ways to put your own graphic into any shape (method #4)

April 25, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette import patterns

Today's lesson is #4 in a series about how to add your own raster images to use as patterns to fill any shape. This method is actually a combination of 2 other methods we’ve already learned. You’re going to use file import to add the image to your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: Fill, folder, import, library, pattern, pattern fill, raster

Pattern fill pizzazz: 7 ways to put your own graphic into any shape (method #3)

April 23, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette pattern fill

So far in this series on adding your own pattern fill to a shape, I've shown you 2 ways to save raster images into your regular library folders and use them from there. You'll want to make sure you've practiced those, because I'm going to refer to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: Fill, fill pattern, folder, font organization, fonts, import, library, library organization, pattern, pattern organization, patterns, sub-folder, subfolder

Pattern fill pizzazz: 7 ways to put your own graphic into any shape (method #2)

April 17, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

import file to Silhouette library

In this series, we're talking about 7 different ways to use your own raster images as a fill pattern for your shapes. In our first lesson, we talked about using drag and drop to copy an image you saved on your computer into the Silhouette library. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: Fill, folder, import, library, pattern, pattern fill, raster

Pattern fill pizzazz: 7 ways to put your own graphic into any shape (method #1)

April 17, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette pattern fill aspect ratio

When I’m designing projects in Silhouette Studio, I never work with unfilled shapes. Filling a shape with a color makes it easier to grab it with the mouse, helps me see front to back order, and tells me immediately if a design is a grouping or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: aspect ratio, drag, Fill, library, pattern, pattern fill, raster, stretch

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

October 5, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette save

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...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: back up, basics, close, closing, cloud, folder, keyword, library, save, saving, software basics

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...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Design Store, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: basics, beginner, designs, free, free shapes, images, library, software, software basics

Software Basics — Lesson 10: The Library

August 8, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Today’s lesson is about the library. (To start with Lesson 1 of the Software Basics series, go here). Hopefully, you’ve already gone through the Before You Begin series and have set up an account with Silhouette America, signed up for their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: beginner, cloud, designs, folder, images, library, local, properties, property, search, shapes, shared, snapshot, split screen, sync, user

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