Buying designs from the Silhouette Design Store is great, but there are also plenty of tools in Silhouette Studio to help you create your own designs. Today, I’m starting a new series on using the Drawing Tools in Silhouette Studio to get you going … [Read more...]
Tuesday quick tip: How to strikethrough text
My youngest boy recently got engaged. Hurrah! I was very excited to welcome his sweet future wife to the family. He had a very elaborate plan that worked almost to perfection, culminating in a celebratory dinner with her parents who came in as a … [Read more...]
Tuesday quick tip: How to change the default fill and line color
When you create a shape or text in Silhouette Studio, by default it has a red line color and no fill color. Let’s say you know that filled shapes are easier to grab with your mouse, so you always work with filled shapes as I recommend. Or maybe you … [Read more...]
Tricks to working with SVG files
One of the great things about using Silhouette machines is the Silhouette Studio software. It is amazing, especially since it’s free and updates are always free. And if you choose to upgrade to a higher level of the software, it’s relatively … [Read more...]
What in the world??? When the shape won’t let you change its fill color
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...]
Cutting Checklist
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...]
Dispelling Text Myths in Silhouette Studio: 30 Misconceptions about words, letters and fonts (part 5)
Have you been learning lots of new things about working with text? I hope so! (If you haven’t read about Text Myths #1-20, start here). Today we’re going to learn about how to text edit in smarter ways by busting 5 more myths. We’ll focus on how and … [Read more...]
Point Editing: taming all those little black dots (Lesson 6 Part 3)
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...]
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Version 4 Send Area: #6 — Cut Order
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...]
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Version 4 Send Area: #5 — Action by: Line, Fill or Layer
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...]