HOW TO MAKE A LAYERED SVG // Turn Single Into Multiple Layers - Photo to SVG Easy Cricut Tutorials
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- In today’s tutorial, I’ll show you how to turn any image into a multi-layer SVG file. You can upload the file directly to Cricut Design Space, and it will already be sorted by color into layers on your canvas. This technique is awesome for creating tumblers and other personalized items with cartoon and Disney characters. I will also show you what I find to be the easiest technique for layering the vinyl, with the transfer tape and parchment paper method. If you have any questions, leave a comment and I will get back to you as soon as possible!
Please note that in order to sell items that use licensed images, logos, characters etc. you must have the rights to the images. Often, images like this are permitted for personal use only. I used this image of SpongeBob Squarepants for personal use only as a gift for a friend!
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I'm new to working with vinyl and this has been extremely helpful
I’m so glad to hear that! Thanks for watching and commenting 🥰
Thank you! I learned some extra tricks from you and yay! It’ll so help in those moments.
So glad to hear this! Thanks for watching and commenting 💖💖
Looks so good!! I'd like to see a video on decorating crocs
Thank you! HAHA you don’t say…. I have a bling crocs video coming your way shortly 😉
Sooooo awesome! New sub here. Thank you so very much for this. I have the original Explore, so I've been around a long time with it, but only dived into a handful of things it can do. I've heard of the parchment paper trick, but the lady's video didn't exactly show how to do it and it was rather lengthy and she lost my attention. No offense on her. I like her other videos. You made this so easy to understand and you got to the point showing it without wasting the whole day. My only variance is I am making each later in Photoshop instead of using the site like you did, but I have used sites like that before and they are great when you don't know PS. I'll add boxes in the upper corners on each layer so I can do what you just did. This is brilliant. I always wondered how this would be done. My only thought is the wet application where you spray soapy water and then squeegee out the water and let it dry together. I've applied company vehicle decals this way and thought that may work. I'll have to give that a test and see how it might work since it gives you a small chance to move and reposition before committing and squeegeeing out the water and it sets. Thanks again for showing me this is so easy with the parchment paper.
Thanks for subscribing and for taking the time to comment! Yes lots of people use a “wet application” method for their vinyl decals, seems to be a good way to prevent bubbles but I haven’t attempted it yet 😊 let me know if you t try it out!
@@ElizabethSparkles I will. If you have a large decal like what I described for our work vehicles, yes it is great as it gives you time to squeegee out the bubbles. Some can pop them with a needle and then squeegee out the air bubble to the pin hole, but that can give you a chance of wear with weather in that spot. I'll do my best to come back here soon and reply and let you know how this layered decal sticker I'm working on works with both methods. I will definitely do your method as it is faster and I will be working on a flat surface, but I keep thinking I want to try the wet application and see how it does with something small and not vehicle sized.
@DawgsChamp88 sounds awesome!
@@ElizabethSparkles slight update. PS is great for taking an image and technically I redraw and recolor what I want on my drawing pad to get nice crisp edges so they cut well. I can't draw more than a stick figure on paper, so this drawing pad is great. To most this task would be tedious, annoying, not fun or just plain out confusing. To me, that is relaxing and almost like a mental getaway. I zone-in on what I'm doing. I save for web to see what the svg would look like and can check periodically as I go when I save and resave. Then adjust as needed and resave again if needed. I started to do each layer in PS and realized, naa, this will take all day or maybe a few sessions and probably won't line up as I was envisioning the decal layered backwards with the black outline on top and the colors underneath. I've heard of people using contour in DS, but I've never really used it to see how it works. With how you described about using contouring, this is the way to go. Much much faster. Like night and day. I'll use PS to make the whole outline of something into an svg. Then go to DS and duplicate it to contour for different colored layers. I'm the type that watches someone teach you how to do something, then I dive in and experiment and get hands on. If it didn't work, I'll rewatch the video and see what I missed. Things just stick more when I get hands on and realize what worked and what didn't work. At first, when I contoured it, it stayed the same til I clicked away from my image and it changed to the whole black background. Yey. It took me a moment to realize what to hide and what to show for each layer to get what I wanted to see for each color. This whole contouring thing in PS (while enjoyable), just went from time consuming to much faster to contour in DS. Since I love fiddling with PS, I thought I'd try that and see if it worked and then move on to figuring out contouring in DS. Thanks again. This is a game changer. I'll add to my to do list to try the wet application without the markers and come back and let you know how that goes. All these buttons in DS and I've always told myself, one day I'll figure out what that does and what that does. Thanks for helping me cross something off my list to figure out.
@DawgsChamp88 photoshop is definitely great for its wide range of tools, but for sure design space is way more user friendly and you can achieve pretty much any cleanup you need to do just by using the shapes & contour/slice tools within it 😊 lots of quick hacks and then you know for sure your machine will be able to cut it nicely! Sometimes when I transfer stuff from photoshop to design space I still have a few issues if the lines are too thin or there’s too much detail for my machine to cut.
thank you for the help but how do you adjust size ??
Once you upload to cricut design space, you can adjust the size of everything! Just make sure you have all of the layers of the SVG selected so that everything adjusts proportionally to each other 😊
I’ve made it through everything perfectly till I get to design space and removing the marks!! My contour options arent there but I’m wondering if it’s because I’m on my phone?
Are your layers “grouped”? You can’t contour if your layers are grouped - so you want to click “ungroup” and then scroll all the way to the right of the toolbar with the layer you want to contour selected!
Bummer, too difficult. Ugh.
It can definitely be tricky! I’d recommend starting with an image that just has a few colours so you can practice with fewer layers 😊