In this series, I’m going through how to use all the tools in the Transform panel. If you missed Lesson 1 on the Align tab, you can find it here. Here in Lesson 2, we’ll go over the 2nd tab which is Scale. This is where you can choose a precise size … [Read more...]
How’d they do that? Graduated horizontal spaces
If you know me at all, you know I LOVE LOVE LOVE football. I was watching a game last night and saw a design on the shirts of some of the coaching staff. The team name had graduated horizontal spaces running through the team name. Note: This post … [Read more...]
Pancakes and Donuts: the key to understanding the difference between a grouping and a compound path
To truly understand using and creating designs in Silhouette Studio software, you need to have a good understanding of Groupings and Compound Paths — how they are the same, how they are different and how they respond differently to modifications. You … [Read more...]
Successful Beginner Projects: #3 Initial Gift Tag
In today’s Successful Beginner Project, we’ll learn to add text, draw a simple shape, create an offset and a compound path, use more scale and align features, and cut by fill color. This tag is great for any time, but especially Christmas. By putting … [Read more...]
Software basics (version 4) — Lesson 12: Adding shapes to the page and basic manipulation
You’ve got your free shapes in your library and you’ve learned how to get around in the software. Let’s learn how you put those images on the page and start working with them. Step 1 — Start a new file We want to start with a clean page. I find it … [Read more...]