Draw a Circle in Silhouette

Howdy! Terminal week a reader asked how to crop a photo in the shape of an animal. Here is her comment:

I am new to my Cameo and I am making some of the Silhouette Zoo Animals for table decorations for my grandson'south kickoff birthday political party. I will exist mounting them on chopsticks and then sticking them in a potted plant. So the front end volition expect cute but the back will but exist plainly paper in the shape of the creature. I would similar to cut out a photo of my grandson on photograph paper in the shape of the animal and then put that over the plainly paper back. I may as well demand to manipulate the photo past enlarging and cropping so that his confront would be sure to fit inside the outline. Would you happen to know the best mode to do that? Is photograph paper something that the Cameo can cut?

Aye, the CAMEO tin can cut photo paper and yes, y'all can cut a photo in whatever shape your heart desires! The CAMEO is a actually versatile tool and I happen to agree with Silhouette America'southward slogan, "Dream it upwards. Cutting it out.".

A couple of years ago, I made a Very Hungry Caterpillar photo imprint for my son'due south 1st altogether. I added monthly baby photos to each circle of the caterpillar'south body to brandish his growth throughout the yr. I think that this projection will serve as a swell tutorial to address the reader's question.

To add together a photo in the shape of a circle:

• Import your photos into Silhouette Studio. I was able to import my photos past dragging them from iPhoto into Silhouette Studio.
• Side by side, use the "Draw an Ellipse" tool to create a circle. Hold down the shift cardinal while drawing the circle to get in perfectly round.

• I made xiii circles that were slightly smaller than the main body's green circles.
• Identify i circle on elevation of each photograph and resize the photos as necessary.

• Open the Modify window and select Crop.

• Repeat for the remaining 12 photos.

Adjacent, the print and cut feature will demand to be prepare:

• In the Design Page Settings window, select letter sized paper.
• In the Registration Marks window, select Blazon 1 (CAMEO, Portrait) in the Mode menu.
• Place the photos onto the page avoiding the greyed out areas. Also, make sure that the pictures are not placed exterior of your printer's boundaries.
• Impress the photos onto photograph paper.
• Once printed, place the photo newspaper onto the cutting mat.
• Before cut, perform a test cut (the test cut button is found in the Send to Silhouette window). Adjust the blade and the paper thickness if necessary. I set up my bract to 3 and the newspaper thickness was 25.
• Select the Transport to Silhouette icon. The Silhouette volition automatically bank check for registration marks. Make sure that the cover of the automobile is airtight and that information technology is in a well lit location.

That'southward it! The photos are prepare to exist adhered to the green circles.

Here are a couple of variations that you lot could exercise instead:

The first example shows a "Trace and Discrete" photo with an added background. The 2d example depicts a photo added to a maple leaf. This example, which I think all-time represents the reader's projection idea, can exist achieved past following the higher up circumvolve tutorial but instead of cartoon a circle, import a design from the library. I would recommend using a shape that is proportionate to plumbing fixtures the photo. Using a giraffe, for example, would non be the easiest shape to add a photo to equally it is an odd shaped design-besides tall and too narrow.

To make a "trace and discrete" photo, please note that this process is quite time consuming considering there is a fair bit of editing involved. It also requires a more advanced knowledge of Silhouette Studio to accomplish this technique. In addition, the photos must have a clean and/or contrasting groundwork in order for the trace to be effective.

Here is a quick guide on how to trace and detach a photo:

• Open the Trace window.
• one. Select trace area. With the mouse, embrace the part of the photo that will be traced.
• 2. Adjust the levels in the high and depression laissez passer filters until the chief field of study of the photo is more often than not yellow.
• 3. Select Trace and Detach.

• If at that place is background ataxia included in the trace (like there is in my picture), remove this excess by editing the points. The edit points icon is located in the side bar. It's the second icon down.

• Delete or add points to create smoothen lines effectually the traced photo.

Shown below, I deleted points to smoothen out the side of the caput:

BEFORE:

Afterwards:

Hither I added points to fill in the ear:

BEFORE:

Later on:

Finally, hither is the finished result subsequently editing all of the points. Information technology is yet a petty rough but from a altitude no one will be able to tell the difference.

The traced photo can now be added to any shape or simply cut as is. I decided to add a background behind this photo and so I placed information technology on a butterfly.

• In the Modify window, select Divide in order for the moving picture to take the shape of the butterfly.
• Delete the backlog parts of the shape.

• Grouping all parts of the shape together and select No Cutting in the Cut Settings window.
• Import the butterfly shape again. The cutting way for this butterfly will be set up to Cutting.
• In the align window, select Center nether the Marshal menu to make the two butterflies into one shape.

If this process is non followed, it may be difficult, if not incommunicable, for the cut lines to show on just the outer edge.

I hope that this tutorial volition give y'all a few ideas on how yous tin can add a photo to any pattern in Silhouette Studio. Let me know if y'all found this tutorial helpful and by all means, leave a comment if you take any question on how to use your Silhouette CAMEO. I would love to hear from you lot!

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