TUTORIALS

These images each link to a tutorial I’ve made. They include project tutorials and software tutorials. Comprehensive video lessons for Silhouette Studio are posted separately on the SILHOUETTE LESSONS page of this website.

If you know the tutorial you’re looking for, it may be faster to use the Search box on my website.

 

Silhouette PixScan Tutorials:

Silhouette Mint Machine and Mint Studio Tutorials:

Silhouette Curio Tutorials:

Silhouette Alta and Silhouette 3D:

Product, Assembly, and Software Tutorials:

14 thoughts on “TUTORIALS”

  • Hi, I need your help if you do not mind. I have a Julie Nutting doll stamp that I imported to Silhouette, I want to color it to look like an African American I am having a lot of challenges completing it. I wanted to color the skin and the clothes. Would you please if you would make a video that will guide me step by step. I certainly do appreciate your tutorials on the Silhouette, I just found your site. I have had my machine for at least four years and cannot get the use out of it I should. Thank you

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    • Hi, Gloria. As wonderful as the Silhouette Studio software is, coloring is not one of its strong points. If you have a design that is already divided, you can color individual pieces of the design with the Fill Color Window. A stamp or illustration is pretty difficult to color in Studio; I’ve tried it several times with little success. I wish I could help more on that. Your best bet would be to color a stamped (or printed) image by hand and then scan to import it into Silhouette Studio before assigning cut lines.

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  • Thank you, it can be done a young lady does it but she took my money and did not deliver all of my images. And then there is another person on you tube I have seen but trying to find her again, oh well, thanks again. I have learn a lot from your tutorials.

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  • Okay I found some old ones and a new one, check them out.1. Silhouette Studio Tutorial: How to cut and color digis – Monica Flores – 2. Coloring digital images in Silhouette Studio – Crafticakes7 – 3. How to color in digi’s with Silhouette Designer Edition Software : Jessi Buehrle, all on Youtube.

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    • You need to crop out that white background from the image. The fastest way is to perform a Trace around the image and choose “Trace and Detach.” You may need to “turn on” the cut line in your Cut Settings Window by selecting “Cut Edge.” You might find the middle video helpful in this paper doll tutorial. The tracing part starts about 3 minutes in, once the image is already in Studio.

      Alternately, you can draw any shape around the image and go to Modify>Crop.

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  • Hi Kelly those are some fantastic videos I sure did learn a lot I did not know. But I am still trying to learn how to color in an image. If you have a line drawing image that is not colored can you add color to the various areas with Silhouette using the fill color window colors. Happy New Year

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    • The fill colors are able to fill closed shapes. A line drawing image generally has the “line” as its closed shape, and the in-between parts are voids, therefore cannot be filled. It depends on the design, but you might be able to right click and “release compound path” to turn the line drawing into layers with individual shapes that can be filled. Another alternative is to use drawing tools to “draw” a shape inside the lines, which can then be filled with color. It can sometimes be tedious and time-consuming, but you definitely learn a lot about the software.

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  • I just learned how to use Inkscape to change a pdf into a dxf file, which can be used by multiple die cut software programs such as Silhouette Studio. I love it because the dxf file loads as a series of cut lines instead of an image I have to trace and can include dashed fold lines and such. I’ve done this with several pdf files from online.

    I’ve been trying to save my own projects in a pdf format to share with others, but when I load my own pdf files (made using the print function and bullzip free pdf printer) the pdf files turn out different somehow.

    When I open my own pdf files in Inkscape, instead of registering as line paths I have a bunch of separate image squares that won’t even ‘trace’ and have white lines between them. Any advice? I’m tearing my hair out trying to unravel this problem!

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    • Hi, Jessica. I haven’t tried to save my own PDFs in a format that can eventually be converted to a vector or cut file. I do know that Silhouette Studio DE can open some PDFs as a vector, but not all. The way a PDF is created has an effect on how it can be opened in design programs. I suspect that Bullzip can’t save it the right way and that you probably need a different program. I’ll see what I can find out and get back to you.

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  • Kelly, I am new to the Silhouette world and to be honest it has been very intimidating. I really purchased the Curio to try to do cutting and embossing on wedding invitations. I have a question that I’m hoping you can answer for me. I have searched and searched trying to find the ‘how to’ but have been unsuccessful. Is it possible to cut part of an image so when you fold it, like a greeting card, the image, such as a flower, hangs off the side of the card? I think of it as a 3D image. The part of the image remaining on the front of the card would be scored and embossed. I’m not sure how to do it in the software. When I select an image for cutting, it selects the whole image. Any suggestions or advice would be most appreciated.

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    • Diane, that’s a bit of a complex cut, but it can be done. Do you mean the image hangs off the folded side of the card or the non-folded edge of the card? If you have an example of what you are thinking of, will you please send me an email at kelly@findingtimetocreate.com? Do you have the extra-large Curio base, or the standard base?

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