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Tracing Tips & Tricks — #5 Simple multi-color images

October 30, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Welcome back! If you haven't started with Lesson 1 of this series on tracing, you'll find it here.  So far we've covered when you need to trace, selecting images, what's in the trace panel and how to trace simple, solid shapes of 1 color. Today, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: Compound Path, raster, simplify, trace, trace by color, tracing

Tracing Tips & Tricks — #2 Image Selection

September 8, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff 6 Comments

In this series (lesson 1 is here), I'm showing you how to take a clip art type image and turn it into a cut file for your Silhouette. This gives you a tremendous amount of designing flexibility. Lesson 2 is about graphic styles and how to choose … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: raster, resolution, 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

How and why to save a Silhouette design as an image

July 24, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette save as image

One of the things I love about the Silhouette Studio software is how flexible it is. I like to find ways to use it unexpected ways. Recently, I wanted to make a coffee mug for some dear friends who had moved away and recently returned to our home … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: image, jpeg, jpg, line color, pdf, picture, raster, save as, svg

How to more easily visualize your design and finished project

July 9, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette visualize project

Today I want to share with you some tips on how you can better visualize the outcome of a design. You can use these methods to get a more realistic preview your project, create mockups, or to predict the outcome before you use any Modify options. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: background, Fill, line color, mock up, pattern, raster, visualize

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

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

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 #6)

April 30, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

pattern-filled rectangle drag and drop

Today we're continuing our series on ways to add your own raster image as a fill pattern. If you haven't read about Methods #1-5, you'll definitely want to do that first. You can start with Method #1 here. Today, I'm going to show you a quick way to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: drag and drop, Fill, 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 #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

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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