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Draw something! How to use the Silhouette drawing tools: Lesson 2 — Draw a non-regular shape

October 11, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

In the first lesson in this series, I taught you how to draw a straight line. I included information on how to make it a perfect horizontal, vertical or 45° angle, and how to get rid of that pesky feature where the software keeps drawing shapes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: curve, drawing, polygon, shapes

Frugal Friday: make an easy Christmas tree shape

December 21, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

I'm betting we ALL need to save some cash this time of year. In today's Frugal Friday tip, I'm going to teach you to make your own Christmas tree. That means you don't have to buy one. It just takes a few simple steps. Once you begin to understand … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing Tagged With: christmas, design, Drawing Tools, frugal, modify, polygon, shapes, tree, triangle

Point Editing: taming all those little black dots (Lesson 7)

June 29, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

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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

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