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How distribute designs evenly around the page: Method #6 — Move To or By

July 15, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

In today's lesson in our series on spacing your designs evenly around the page in Silhouette Studio, I'm going to show you how you can select an object and move it by a specific amount to or to a specific location. (If you haven't read the previous … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: move, spacing, transform

Total Transformation: How to use the tools in the transform panel — Lesson 5 Shear

July 21, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Here's our 5th and final tab to explore in the Transform panel -- Shear. If you haven't read my posts about the Align, Scale, Rotate and Move tabs, I recommend reading those. There's more in them than most people realize. The tools can save you a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: italic, shear, skew, slant, tilt, transform

Total Transformation: how to use the tools in the Transform panel — Lesson 4 Move

June 29, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

This is part 4 in this series on using the tools in the Transform panel. We've already covered Align, Scale and Rotate. Today's lesson is on the 4th tab -- Move. You can just click and drag your shapes around the page, but there are times you need to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: location, move, transform

Total Transformation: how to use the tools in the Transform panel — Lesson 1 Align

June 11, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Today I'm beginning a new series on using the tools in the Transform panel. There's actually WAY more here than you'd first expect. You can align designs, set their size, rotate them, move them to a specific area of the page and tilt them with the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: Align, center, horizontal, spacing, transform, vertical

Right where you want it — how to move a shape precisely

November 21, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

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I have to be truthful -- I'm not always super-precise as a crafter. I don't typically find that spending an extra 30 minutes to affect a change of .001% is worth it. If I'm moving my images around on the Design area in the Silhouette Studio software, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: Align, alignment, icon, move, transform, x, y

Successful Beginner Projects: #4 Christmas Tree Gift Tag

November 10, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette tag

We’re going to create another gift tag today. I mean, I can never have too many Christmas gift tags in my house come holiday time ????. In this project, we’ll learn to draw another type of shape, use control points, resize disproportionately, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Materials, Projects Tagged With: Align, cardstock, christmas, Compound Path, control point, cut, cut edge, cut settings, gift, grouping, rounded rectangle, tag, transform

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