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What in the world??? Shape won’t fill with color (or doesn’t act right when it does)

September 11, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Have you ever encountered a real head-scratcher in Silhouette Studio? That's what this series is about -- explaining those and showing you how to fix them. Today, I'll show you why sometimes you just can't get a shape to fill with color. Or, you do, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software, Tips Tagged With: closed, color, drawing, Fill, open, point editing, points

What in the world??? — No points to edit on a design

September 1, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

In this series, we're uncovering the mysteries of the universe. Well, at least the Silhouette universe. I'm covering topics that can really stump you no matter how long you've been using Silhouette machines. Today, we're going to talk about what's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software, Tips Tagged With: Compound Path, edit, group, point editing, points, Text, ungroup

What in the world??? — Little black dots on the design

July 1, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Today's topic is something that TOTALLY stumped me as a beginner. I would be working in the software and suddenly there were little black dots all over my design. Here's an example-- Note: This post contains affiliate links. That means if you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software, Tips Tagged With: dots, edit, points, vector

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 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 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 3)

May 18, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette adding points

So far in our series on Point Editing in Silhouette Studio, we’ve learned some general information about point and how to select and move them. If you need to start at the beginning, you’ll find Lesson 1 here. In this lesson, I’m going to teach you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: add point, adding points, delete point, deleting, moving points, point editing, points

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

May 17, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette moving points

In Lesson 1 of the Point Editing series, we learned some general information about points and how to select them. If you haven’t gone through that lesson, you definitely want to do that first. Today, we’re going to talk about moving points. We’ll go … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: arrow keys, click and drag, moving, nodes, point editing, points

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