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Friday, March 11, 2011

Silhouette PNC Instructions

Here are the step by step instructions for using Silhouette Studio to Print and Cut.

1. Open a new blank file in Silhouette Studio
2. Click on the registration marks button to add to file
3. Open the folder that has your .png files
4. Drag wanted file to the new blank doc in Silhouette Studio
5. Resize file as wanted
6. Click on trace button
7. Select area to trace
9. Click the high pass filter button off
10. Drag the threshold slider bar to 99%
11. Click on trace outer edge
12. Repeat steps 4 through 11 if you want more print and cut files on doc
13. Click on cut style button
14. Click on one of the images that you have on your file that you want to cut
15. Click on no cut
16. Click on next image on your file that you want to cut and then click on no cut
17. Continue to do that till all your images are done.
18. Send to printer
19. Attach printed paper to your mat
20. Insert into your Silhouette
21. Click on send to Silhouette button. follow instructions.

And TADA!!!!! You are finished and should have a sheet of cut out images that you can use for your scrapbooking or card making needs!
I sure hope this helps someone out. It took me a while to figure out what I was doing wrong.

4 comments:

Crafty Annie said...

Great instructions, but you forgot one tiny important thing...somewhere around step 19 or 20, you have to go back in to the cut settings and select the items to cut, select Cut, and then continue on!

Michelle said...

I have not had to go back in and reselect items to cut. It seems to cut without doing that. Those are the steps I follow exactly to cut my images. :-)

Michelle said...

When I click on the no cut on each item. it is only no cutting the square outline box around each of them. It still keeps the cut line that is exactly around the image.

Nelda said...

What I have found is that when you do a trace (as per instrcutions above), there are 2 cut lines. One is the outline around the outer edge of the image and the other is the outline around the rectangle used to define the traced area. I think what you are doing when you select "no cut" is selecting the outer rectangle as a no cut while leaving the inner outline of the image still there. At least that is what I see when I use your steps.

Your post is helpful because this particular aspect of PnC is not addressed in the manual that I received and I only found out by trial and error. Thanks!

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