by Sandy McCauley | Aug 26, 2008 | Flourishes - Designing, Free Videos, Inkscape
Inkscape has done it again! They’ve come out with a new enhancement in version 0.47 that’s an answer to most scrapbookers’ number one Wish List item. It’s a SUPER easy way to design swirls and flourishes that match those you see for sale in the stores. I downloaded the beta version and tested it myself and it’s just so much fun to play with!!! This, in combination with the ability to export from Inkscape as .eps and import into KNK Studio, KNK Studio GE, or Design Master to cut your designs, makes this the best solution for those wanting this capability. Watch this video produced by a guy who calls himself “Heathenex” and see how it works.
Inkscape 0.47 Demo
Note that because 0.47 is a beta release, you may wish to wait until it’s considered a stable version before downloading. That’s entirely up to you. Since I only use Inkscape for specialty cases like this, I went ahead and tested it out. I had no problems with using this feature and exporting/importing for cutting to my KNK. The beta versions of Inkscape are available from:
Inkscape Beta Releases
by Sandy McCauley | Aug 25, 2008 | Free Videos, Undo Navigator
Today, I have a free quickie video showing how to use the Undo Navigator to back up to different points in time during your file designing. Using Edit>Undo (or Ctrl-Z) also works fine, but let’s say you need to go back 10 or more steps? It’s a lot faster to use this handy feature that can be found under Edit>Undo Navigator to see a list of the various steps and click at any point to return to the state of your design right before you executed that step. Just watch the video and you’ll get the idea! 🙂
Undo Navigator
by Sandy McCauley | Aug 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
Thank you SO much to Chris Durnan for nominating me for her “I Love Your Blog Award.” Chris’s blog has been an inspiration to so many people involved in the cutter world and I personally want to thank her also for answering a miscellany of emails from me about how to set up various things in my blog. She’s the Blogging Queen, if there ever was one! 🙂
To continue this chain of nominations, I pick the following 7, in alphabetical order. :-):
Brenda
Diana
Jenn
Karen
Pam
Polsia
Rosemary
Here are the rules for playing:
1. The winner can put the logo on their blog
2. Link the person you received your award from
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs
4. Put links of those blogs on yours
5. Leave a message on the blogs of the people you have nominated
by Sandy McCauley | Aug 22, 2008 | Design Master, KNK, Shortcuts
Carolyn in Australia posted the other day and also emailed me privately to find out if I was aware of what happens when you RIGHT click on one of the 9 boxes of a selected image in KNK Studio or Design Master. She had discovered that a pop-up menu appears with lots of useful options. She didn’t remember reading about this in the User Manual and wondered if everyone else was aware of it.
The answer is yes… I was aware of it and no… it’s not in the User Manual! I remember being very disappointed that the options to Copy and Paste images were not part of that pop-up menu, as you often find in other programs and when I first discovered this in the early weeks of using KNK Studio, I basically just dismissed this Right click function for that reason.
Now that I’m looking at it again,
I think I should have made a bigger deal of this menu. Note that some of the useful functions that are otherwise buried in the menus, can be readily available to use with this Right click option. Specifically, it’s nice seeing the options for Array, Edit (takes you into node editing mode), Start Sequence by Vector (controlling the order in which objects will cut), Blank Size, Mirror, and Rotate.
So, try using this over the course of the next few weeks and you may find it to be a rather handy addition to your regular use of the software!
Thanks, Carolyn, for posting about this! 🙂
by Sandy McCauley | Aug 17, 2008 | Free Videos, Power Weed
If you plan to cut large items from vinyl, then today’s post will definitely be of interest to you.
Power Weed is a function in KNK Studio which allows allows you to sort of “chop up” the waste part of your vinyl for easier removal. This is important because (1) you do have to remove the waste first from the backing sheet, leaving your cut letters or images and (2) if you’re not careful, the waste vinyl might flip over onto your nicely cut images and stick!
So, have a look at today’s video and let me know if you have any questions!
Power Weed in KNK Studio
