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...]
Tracing Tips & Tricks — #2 Image Selection
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...]
Tracing Tips & Tricks — #1 Where to Start
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...]
How and why to save a Silhouette design as an 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...]
How to more easily visualize your design and finished 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...]
Photo crop in Silhouette Studio: how and why to do it
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...]
Point Editing: taming all those little black dots (Lesson 7)
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...]
Pattern fill pizzazz: 7 ways to put your own graphic into any shape (misc. info)
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...]
Pattern fill pizzazz: 7 ways to put your own graphic into any shape (method #6)
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...]
Pattern fill pizzazz: 7 ways to put your own graphic into any shape (method #4)
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...]
Pattern fill pizzazz: 7 ways to put your own graphic into any shape (method #2)
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...]
Pattern fill pizzazz: 7 ways to put your own graphic into any shape (method #1)
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...]
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Version 4 Send Area: #8 — How Text or Object on Path affect cut style
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...]