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Image effects panel for better printing

August 13, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

image effects icon in Silhouette

Image effects panel -- have you heard of that one? Many Silhouette users haven't. But it can be a HUGE help if you are printing from Silhouette Studio. You can use the tools in it to adjust colors in both printable patterns and photos. Let's go … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Print and Cut Tagged With: black and white, brightness, color, colorize, contrast, Fill, gamma, gray shade, hue, image effects, inversion, photo, Print and Cut, saturation, sepia, tint

Tracing tips and Tricks — #7 Simple photographs

February 2, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

So far in our series on tracing, we've covered how to do pretty basic traces. I highly recommend you walk through all those lessons first, starting here. From here on out, we begin the harder stuff so you need to have the basics down already. Today, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: photo, photos, threshold, trace, tracing

Tracing Tips & Tricks — #1 Where to Start

September 4, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff 4 Comments

Silhouette tracing

Today I'm beginning a series that's LONG overdue. It's about tracing -- how to turn an image such as clip art or a photo into a cut file. I've taught this as a class at the All Things Silhouette Conferences for years and am finally starting to do it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: clip art, images, jpg, photo, png, raster, trace, tracing, vector

Think outside the box: customizing a ready-made sign

May 14, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

wood sign painting

Today I want to share an out-of-the-box idea with you for a wood sign. Rather than starting completely from scratch, I'm going to show you how to take a sign that already has something on it and add your own unique twist. I found a really cute … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Projects Tagged With: crop, page size, paint, photo, sign, stencil, vinyl, wood

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

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Version 4 Send Area: #8 — How Text or Object on Path affect cut style

March 9, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette curve word

You may not know this, but in Silhouette Studio you can make words go around a shape. That's called Text on Path. New in version 4, you can also take a shape and use Object on Path to create duplicates of that shape around the contours of another … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: clip art, control point, curve text, curve word, cut, cut preview, cut settings, cut view, jpg, no cut, object on path, photo, photograph, png, point, raster, replicate, send, Text, text on path, vector

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