Master Cricut DESIGN SPACE in 2024 | The Best HACKS & TIPS!

y'all you all were obsessed with me bringing you the tips and tricks on things that I bet you didn't know you could do with your Cricut so guess what we are back with more except in today's video I'm going to be showing you things that I bet you didn't know you could do in design space my name is Lauren and I'm a craft producer here at makers going to learn and if you are new to our Channel what we are is we are a crafting Community a members ship where we bring you inspiration education and motivation plus if you are a member you get thousands of cut files hundreds of fonts with new cut files and fonts released to you every single month if by chance you might be interested in signing up y'all click that first link down below we have a special deal where you can sign up for our membership for only $1 y'all it blows my mind that we even have such a great deal for our membership because with this $1 you get unlimited access to everything on our website for 7 Days plus you get 20 downloads which equals out to 5 cents a download y'all I don't know anywhere else where you can find downloads that cheap but I definitely think you need to check us out try us out for a dollar you can search the website like I said you have unlimited access to all the curriculum all the education that we offer to our members as well and you can do that only for a dollar with that being said let's go ahead and hop over into design space so that I can show you things that I bet you didn't know you could do now that we're here in design space let's start off super simple you see we have nothing on our canvas we are working with a blank white canvas but y'all did you know that you can change the color of your canvas now I know you're thinking Lauren no how did do I do that if you look down here at the bottom right hand corner it says blank canvas when you click this box everything up here at your top taskbar changes it kind of all goes away you except for the color right here what you can do click on that color and then you can choose any color canvas you want to work with now this is great if you are working with stickers if you're making stickers that you want to have a white offset or you're working with materials that do have a white offset it's really really great to change the color of your canvas so that you know if something has things that you need to be removed or added things like that let me show you an example of what I'm talking about so if we go over here to our uploads and we just upload a print and cut image we'll start with this one right here we're going to add that to Canvas because my background is gray I can see that if I were to print this out and cut it without adding an off offet Cricut is going to cut every single thing that you see gray it's going to cut around all of your squares it's going to cut around all of your letters and things like that so like I said especially helpful if you're working with print and cut so that you can see what is going to cut what is not because if this canvas was white you might think oh it's just it's going to cut out this whole square but by changing the color of our canvas we know now that we do have to add an offset to this so that it can cut all the way around it now while we're talking about our canvas before we get into designing features did you know that you can turn off or turn on your grids and have different grids if you didn't let me show you how first you're going to go up to the three lines in the top left corner you're going to come down here to settings and then you're going to go to your canvas now this is where you can turn it on or off you can have no grid you can have a partial grid which is going to give you inch by inch lines or you can have a full grid which is going to give you all of the different measurements within your inches so it's going to give you your quarters your half your eigh all of that so let me show you exactly what I mean here you can see when you zoom in with a full grid you have a line at at every interval so you have a line for your half you have a line for your quarter and your eighth and so on if we go back to our settings and we turn it onto partial grid you then see we just have a line for each inch so this is just going to be a personal preference and let me change this back to why so that we can see it just a little bit better this is going to be a personal preference if you want to work with a grid if you want to not this is like I said this is just something you can do within your settings is turn on and turn off that Grid it's really helpful depending on different projects that you might be working on it may be helpful for you to see the grid for you to use those measurements or not so just so you know you can turn on and off the grid now while we're in settings let's talk about one other thing in settings if you look here on the general page of the settings you obviously can change your language that you are working in love that but one of my favorite things to do is go back and forth between my application experience so if Cricut is working on new features that they may be releasing in design space in the future you can actually change from live to beta version you can get kind of like a sneak peek of those features that may be coming out in the future if you change from live to Beta so let's change to Beta and see if there is anything else that we can do now you do have to restart Cricut to do this so you will have to save all your work if you're working on something so we're going to switch to Beta we're going to click done it's going to start it up for us and then we're just going to see if there's anything that cricet has in the beta version right now that we might be interested in using now while this is loading one thing I do want to say is sometimes working in beta can be a little glitchy so just be aware of that there are going to be some new features that you may not have in the live version and it's going to be possibly be glitchy because it is not the live and it is going through beta testing so just be aware of that you can switch back and forth but just know that it may be a little glitchy so we're just going to go ahead and sign in so automatically with opening beta I can already tell you it looks so different I don't know if cricet is coming out with a new update soon but in beta version this is different we no longer have our three little lines on the side so like I said just be aware if you switch to Beta things are probably going to look a lot different so we can toggle back and forth between home and canvas here on the tabs one thing I did notice after kind of playing around with it to get back to our settings it is now moved over here so under your name will be a drop- down arrow if you'll drop that down you can then get to settings that way so now we can go back to settings and if we want to we can go back to the live version which we are going to do just because I really like working in the live if there are new things that I want to test out I will go to beta version now if you do like to work in beta version and you do find an issue know that to report an issue you will come to your settings and you will click this button and report an issue this is how Cricut really fine-tunes their their baa version of design space so if you do like to work in beta you do see an issue when you are designing or cutting or things like that always make sure you go and report that so that Cricut can fix that they can get it ready so that once the live version is ready to go there are no issues and everything is worked out okay so we're just going to go back to live once again it's going to restart design space not a big deal here you can see it's restarting so just know when you toggle back and forth between beta and live cricet design space will uh reopen itself now that we've talked about the canvas and our settings and things like that let's really dive into some true design things that I bet you didn't know you could do in design space so first thing is let's talk about text I love working with text in design space especially some of the makers going to learn fonts I absolutely love them however I'm going to pick on this font Albuquerque for just a second once again this is a maker going to learn font I love it but y'all look how thin this font is it's almost too thin especially if you're wanting to cut small words like it's almost too thin for a Cricut to even recognize but did you know that you can thicken your font and this can be on any font it doesn't even have to be a maker's going to learn font but you can thicken your font and let me show you how so we're going to enlarge our text right here once again this text is currently almost 9 in in width and 7 and 3/4 in in height which is tall and I still feel like it is super thin so what you're going to want to do if you want to keep your font style but you want to thicken it a little bit what we love to do is come up here to the offset now it's going to pop up a pretty large offset we don't want it that large so we're just going to backspace and then play around with how big the offset is here you can see the offset is around each and every letter they are not touching each each other so I like that what I'm going to do is I'm going to hit apply that's going to put an offset but y'all we can pull this basic text down here and look we have the same style font but it is so much thicker and it is going to be so much easier for design space to cut now one thing I do want to let you guys know is that if you you do it as a text alog together you can't use certain text functions on this offset but let me show you a workaround real quick so if you still want to thicken your fonts but you want to be able to manipulate each and every each letter individually what you need to do first and this is another little hack that you may not know you could do in design space is go up here to advance and ungroup these two letters what that is going to to do is it is going to make each individual letter its own layer now what I could do if I wanted to manipulate one of those here you can see we're doing we have that te I can move it around separately so if I wanted to space this out and make even the text a little thicker than what I did earlier you all could see that it was getting really close together that those letters may have touched we didn't want that so what you can do ungroup to letters separate the letters out just a little bit select them all go back up to offset and now I can even make it a little bit thicker if I wanted to so let's dry 2 that's still a little thick we've got the X touching in the middle but let's try 0.15 see what that looks like oh not that 0.15 there it's not touching I like it we're going to hit apply and now the offset is still together but it is spaced out so that you do have a thicker font now if you wanted to just do have individual letters what you would do is just select each individual letter come up here to your offset type in the 0.15 apply and then you would just add that offset to each letter and now you have all of the these different offsets that you can manipulate and move around themselves so now that I've shown you how you can thicken your fonts while we are talking about fonts one other thing that I absolutely love is this next feature so let's say you have ungrouped letters because you wanted to manipulate and move each letter around individually however you are ready to line them back up up space them back out and you're like H now they're all wonky they are not going to fit what am I going to do they're not going to fit in our blank whatever what am I going to do and you know that you have let's say from 10 in to work with so from six here we've got from 6 in to 16 so we're going to move this over from 6 to 16 in right okay okay still looks like weird and I know you're thinking Lauren what are you doing Hold Up Wait hear me out so what you can do although these letters are literally we'll even move this one down here they're everywhere they're all over the board what you can do select them all by either dragging or dropping or if you have other elements that you don't want to drag and drop you can select them all over here on the layers panel what we are then going to do hear me out we are going to go to a line first thing we're going to do is we are going to distribute them horizontally so now they are evenly spaced apart across the board and while they're all still selected we're going to go to align and align them to the bottom y'all now you can see the t's are within those 10 in and the the other letters are evenly spaced apart from each other I don't know if y'all knew that you could do that but you definitely can and it doesn't have to be just with text for example let's grab some circles and let's just we'll make a couple different sizes like if you wanted to create a a dotted line around a let's say a a sign and you wanted to have dots around it and you wanted to we'll just duplicate that a couple times we'll add in the big one over here we'll put oh we don't want to do that we'll put these in the middle somewhere let's go ahead and duplicate one more and then we'll duplicate it again and I'll make this one uh in between the two okay so we know we want two small ones a big one and this one and we want it to be between there and there okay once again stick with me this doesn't have to be just with text so we want all of these to be straight across right what we're going to do first select them all arrange distribute horizontally okay then we're going to go to a line and we're going to align them Center vertically and y'all look we have a straight line with different size circles differ size shapes that lines up and is distributed perfectly we don't have to do the math anymore cricet does it for us so this is a feature that is definitely one you must take advantage of because I think once you figure it out and you learn how to work with it it's going to be one that you use time and time again tip number I don't even know how many at this point let's talk about if we we have remember we these are all ungrouped to letters right we see over here on the layers panel that they are all different layers but we want to bring them back together so what do we do we select them all we come down here and we can either unite or weld whichever one you feel like using normally I would use unite but let's just say for this purpose we're going to weld those together let's say you've welded them you've gone back out you come back in oh my gosh I can't remember what font that I just used it's not telling you over here because it says weld result and in years past Cricut has not really been the best at telling us what font we use especially after welding so even after a weld did you know that you can still figure out what font you have used all you have to do is go over here to your weld result click the right click on your mouse come down down here to image info and here you can see it shows us that the font that we used was alquerque so even after you have welded your fonts or your letters together you can go to it can it will show you what font you have used now this is just one font let's say you might be thinking but Lauren what if I use multiple fonts okay well we're at system fonts normally we do a we'll do a script font with a blocky font so let's just put this in here let's say we've just added this here we're going to weld these together beautiful right click image info it tells you both of them y'all this is a game Cher especially if you love to use Weld and you love to weld your text and images together you can still right click go down to the bottom where it says image info and it will tell you what fonts and the names of the images that you used now we've talked about fonts we've we've done that for a bit let's talk about uploads did you guys know that once you upload an image into design space it keeps it there for you forever you don't have to upload it every single time you use it let me show you an example so over here in our uploads you can see we have uploaded so many different things what do you want to bet this snowman right here when I hover over it says 16. winter snowman I bet you money we have uploaded this snowman multiple times and the reason I say that is because fun fact this specific snowman was part of one of the very first cut file releases within maker going to learn so if I had to be if I was a b woman I would say this snowman is in here quite a few times and honestly I have no clue but we're going to find out together so how you can do that go to view all and then if you search an image let's just type in what did we say we're going to hover over it and it was Winter Snowman Let's just type in snowman okay first of all this has been uploaded twice winter snowman did not come up but it we said it was but look how many times the face has been uploaded y'all that's so many times five what was it four six times that's insane so let's try that it I think it was 16. Winter snowman I told you here it is once twice three four four five six oh seven seven times this snowman has been uploaded so just know if you have uploaded a an image into design space you don't have to upload it even if you don't see it all you need to do is search for it I know that this didn't pop up when we searched for snowman but I would just try searching um for your image name and how you can find your image Name Is by covering your mouse over your image and it will pop up so like this one 16. winter snowman this one is a screenshot this one is outdoorsy so you can see here that all of these have been there are multiple files that have been downloaded so many times and this is really cool because if you hop in on that dollar deal today and you use those $20 downloads y'all you can download those into cricet design space you've got them forever I mean we don't have a cutfile police that we send to say hey that's a maker's going to learn cutfile we need that back no guys it's yours once you download it now I want you to be aware that it does revert back to a personal use license if you are not a member but another Park of micers going to learn is if you are a member you have commercial licensing with all of our cut files and fonts meaning you can use those cut files and fonts and create things to sell to make money for yourself so now that you've listened to my Spiel let's go back to design space and learn more things that I bet you didn't know you could do so while we're here in our uploads I want to add something to the canvas real quick because I want to show you an amazing sticker hack that I bet you didn't know you could do so we're going to add this ho ho ho to the canvas you can see here that it is a beautiful print and cut image I love the effects that it has but let's just say you were wanting to make a sticker and you wanted to make it a little more I don't know how to say it but defined let's say you wanted to add a black outline to this sticker because I don't know about you guys but I have noticed that if I'm making a sticker especially when it comes to text so we're going to use this print and cut as an example but I'm also going to pull in a text and I'm going to make a like a thicker font let's do Andy Andy is a cute one and we're going to top in we'll type in Asher I'm going to change the color because let's just say our kids want a really cool sticker to put on something he loves uh we'll do blue and then we'll add an offset because we want it to be together so let's add an offset to this be beautiful we're going to change the color because I don't know about you guys but Asher loves to thingss to be colorful purple is one of his favorite colors so we'll just do blue and purple okay so looks really cool it has like this cool black outline it defines everything but what happens when I go to flatten this is that black outline disappears and it kind of like especially if you have colors that are very close to each other it seems like it just gets lost let me show you a trick of how you can get around that so we're going to unflatten this back I'm going to just select Asher I'm going to duplicate it I'm going to come up here to my operations I'm going to change it to a pen function now you can see we have a black pin function however if you go to this little square right here you change it from f fine point you can do extra fine point gel marker different size markers let's do the 2.5 marker it's pretty thick now you are going to be limited to your colors when you do this it is going to limit you to what Cricut has not all of them are going to be super limited but for this all intents and purposes nine times out of 10 we're going to use black for this so here we're going to do black we're going to pull this down we're going to select all of those layers we're going to align them Center and now we're going to flatten them all together and I want you guys to see what happens it looks exactly the same it flattened with that PIN layer giving us a black outline around our sticker now if you think oh Lauren that's a little too thick you can unflatten that is our blue layer this is our pen layer we're going to change it back to pen okay change it you I said the marker you we said thought the 2.5 was too thick let's go back to gel black it's a little thinner select them all flatten them together boom you have a thinner black outline y'all it that is a game Cher especially when it comes to making stickers and you can do this on more than just text so let's say we wanted to make this a sticker we're going to size this down I'm going to add an offset to it let's add a point four offset beautiful apply I'm going to change the color to like a let's go to like a a tan color I think that'd be really cute love that however it still is like our hoo ho kind of gets lost so what we're going to do we're going to select that we're going to duplicate it once again we're going to change it to a pin function now you see we have all the outlines beautiful um I don't want it on fine point I think I want it on glitter black I think that and you could even make it really cool and like offset like I love the offset of the outline there are so many different things you can do with this so let's just select them all a line Center and flatten and y'all look how cute it gives it a defined EDG on your sticker so just know that that is something that you can do and that I love this when it comes to print and cut sticker making and things like that now while we are here and we have a bunch of things on our layers let's talk about the layers panel did you know that you can obviously I love to work from the layers panel but did you know that you can move things to front and back so let's put all these together we see that the text is in the back the ho ho ho stickers in the front ashers in the middle but I want to bring that text to the front there are a couple ways you can do that you can either go to arrange and bring to front or did you know that from the layers panel you can just move it to the top and it brings it to the front y'all how awesome is that you don't have to remember oh is it a line a range I can't remember you can just pull this bad boy bring it up there and bring it to the front I am obsessed with that so you can arrange bring them to the back put them in the middle anything from the layers panel you just move back and forth but did you also know that you can if you have something grouped together you can also add to a group that way as well so let's just say we group our two stickers together you can see here they're moving around in the group The text is separate did you know that you can pull your text and add it into the group as well and now if I select the group they're all three together same thing I can say I want to take Asher out of the group you can still move them around individually by the way the whole group but you can also ungroup things by selecting them and pulling them out now the last thing about the layers panel is did you know that you can rename your layers so here you can see we have a weld result if you want to you can rename this as we'll just put text because that's what it says or you can rename this one to ho ho ho or this one we can rename to Asher so it kind of helps you stay separate keeping things separate you can even so let's go to unflatten and you see we have the ho ho ho here here is the AL line and here is the offset so we can rename this one to outline all this does is it helps you really keep your layers separate so that you know which ones you are working with so if you don't want to move them on the canvas you can work with them here so just know you can move layers from up and down from your layers panel and also rename layers wow y'all so much information I really hope that you have learned something in today's video maybe you learned a new hack maybe you learned a new function drop your comments down below letting me know something that you may have learned or even if you have something that you want to teach other people or let other people know drop those in the comments as well if there's a hack that I didn't show you all today and something that you can do in design space drop that down below so that we can maybe add that to our next video as always if you have enjoyed this video hit that thumbs Thumbs Up Button subscribe to our Channel and hit that Bell notification so that you can get notified every time we bring you hacks tips tricks and new crafts once again don't forget to jump in on that dollar deal as well 20 downloads for a dollar 7 Days absolutely unlimited access to the maker going to learn website first link down below make sure you click that help I don't know what I'm doing because I have attached all of my PNG files together but they keep cutting out separate don't worry I'm here to help because we are going to talk today about the difference in flatten versus attach when it comes to print and cut images my name is Lauren and I'm a crap producer here at makers going to learn where we bring you inspiration education and motivation to get your die cutting machine out and start using it I'm going to answer the age-old question do I flatten or do I attach and I'm going to show you two examples of why we are going to do one or the other if you are new to our Channel make sure you hit that thumbs up button and like this video subscribe to our Channel and hit that Bell notification so that you can get notified every time we get Crafting let's go ahead and talk about it which one do I do flatten or attach let's go to design space now that we're here in design space let's start building our sticker so I have already uploaded the design or the file that I want so I'm going to use this skull with flower which is going to be linked down below for you guys to use if you want to use this you can do so by getting our free 7-Day trial at the makers going to learn website where you can try our websites get 20 download credits for free for seven days um now you will choose if you want to go monthly or yearly after those seven days if you do not cancel my advice go ahead and go yearly because you're going to save 50% on that membership it's amazing so we're going to use this skull with the flower file and then the font that we're going to be using is Estuary can be found on our website so I'm just going to type in Estuary here and what I'm going to do now is I'm going to type never then hit enter and better from here what I want to do is I'm going to go to Advanced ungroup to lines I'm going to bring never here and better here and I'm actually going to curve it a little bit this way and I'm going to curve this one a little bit this way and you're going to see why here in just a second I'll bring this down now what I'm going to do is with never selected I'm going to come up here to curve I'm going to curve it down this way and then once again I'm going to change it over here and bring it down a little bit closer to the skull and maybe even curve it a little bit more and then better I'm going to bring up here and I'm going to start curving the opposite way and then take this and rotate it to the right like that and then bump it up against the skull a little more and I'm going to also change the color of the words now never better from Gray to Black once you have placed it where you want to we are going to select all and I'm going to add an offset now you can choose how large or how small you want your offset to be I think for this one a025 is good we're going to click apply I'm going to change the color to white and I'll go ahead and change our canvas color as well so you can see this a little bit better and then with with the offset selected I'm going to Contour out everything in the middle so this is what we are left with now we do want this to be print and cut so what you can do is go ahead and select all of this come up here to operations and you can see it says basic cut and we just want to change it to a print and cut okay so this looks good it's a print and cut you think it looks great however you can see over here they're still all separate layers so let's talk about the difference between flatten and attach I'm going to select this duplicate the whole sticker bring it over here and we are going to flatten one and we are going to attach one so the first one here I'm going to go to attach and it looks like it's all together it looks like it's perfect the next one I'm going to come over here and I'm going to select flatten once again they look identical right so now that we're here it looks like they're both the exact same this one is attached it's all a print it says all of it says print and cut this one is a print and cut so it should be the same right let's go to make it and find out now that we're here you can see that they're still the same they're still together they are still here so you would think that they should cut out the same what I'm going to do now is I'm going to send this to the printer and we're going to see which one you should do and why so I'm going to select continue I'm going to send it to my printer for this one you do not have to add bleed so we're going to turn bleed off and we are going to use system dialogue and hit print I'm then going to pull this down we want to feed from rear tray and best quality and then we are going to select print now that we've printed this looks exactly the same so once again this one is attach this one we have flattened and this what you're fixing to see is the most important part and why we choose one over the other so now that we're here we are going to choose the printable sticker paper I'm choosing the one with a green paper lining because I don't want it to cut all the way through and then we're going to load this into our machine what our machine is going to do now is it is registering the bounding box around our two stickers to cut them out while our cricet is cutting let's think which one do you think is is going to work the best flatten or attach I guess we're fixing to find out so the reason it is taking our cricet so long to cut this is because you can see the one that was on the right was our attach file and what our machine is doing is cutting out every single piece of this sticker which is why attach is not the solution if we are wanting to cut out out one full sticker although it looked the exact same I feel like this is the issue that a lot of our friends run into is although it says it's a print and cut file we'll attach everything together and then we wonder why it all cuts out separate that's because we have to flatten the file into three or four separate layers into one single layer and I will show you exactly what it does here in just a second once it finishes cutting the flattened side of our design once it has finished cutting the flattened version so overhead you can see that this one on the rod let's try to peel this up you can see that every single letter and the skull cut out and not only that but everything inside the skull cut out that is why we never want to use attach when we are trying to create a print and cut image the one on the left here we'll take it off of here and actually what I can do is I'll just take up this you can see here that the one on the left is the one that we want now that we have answered this question let's talk about why we flatten over attach back in design space although these both look the same and I know I had had some friends that were probably yelling no Lauren we don't attach but I wanted to show everyone because I truly feel like the best way to learn is by seeing it in action so I wanted to show you what each one does like I said this one is the attach is the flattened version which is the one that ended up being on the left and this one is the attached version which was the one that ended up being on the right so here I'll although it moves around the same when we go to make it it looks the same the reason being is over here in the layers panel for our cricket to know that we just want the outline what we have to do is we have to compress all of these layers into one layer and how we do that is not by attaching but by flattening so now you can see that it has compressed all of those five different layers into one layer and that is where our Cricut knows to just cut the outline now I know that was a roundabout way of telling you which one you need to use which is flatten but like I said I wanted you guys to see it in action because me I'm a visual learner and I think a lot of us here are visual Learners as well we can hear one thing over and over but until we see it in action it doesn't really sink in if you only attach your print and cut images together this is what you're going to get you're going to get everything cut out separate it's not going to be what you wanted the reason that we have to flatten is because we're taking one two three four layers compressing them all together and getting one layer here like you see on the left I hope this has answered your your question and really helped you flatten versus attach if you are doing stickers or print and cut images you're always going to choose flatten and that's the reason is because we want to compress all the files into one layer if you have enjoyed this video make sure you hit that thumbs up subscribe to our Channel and hit that Bell notification so that you can be notified every time we get crafty I can't wait to see you guys in the next one hey friends Alicia here with another design Space tutorial I cannot wait to show you all this tutorial this is something that's requested all the time and it's how to convert PNG images to SVG images so pngs are our portable Network Graphics these are images that are typically one layer they have multiple colors they can be a little bit more detailed than an SVG but sometimes we want to cut those p and G images with vinyl and make them multi-layered decals or whatever you want to make but we have to know how to turn those flat images into multi-layered images so we can actually cut them out of the vinyl or whatever you plan to do with them so today I'm going to show you not one but two different ways that you can achieve this go ahead click the Subscribe button so you don't miss any of our crafty Cricut design tips and we can go ahead and get started Okay so we are on the makers going to learn website as you can see we've got different categories that you all can go into now we have our cut files category obviously we've got our fonts but this print and cut file area is where we're going to be at today so typically with our print and cut images they are the pngs the portable Network Graphics now these come in as a on layered image but they're typically very detailed and they're made specifically for pre Printing and cutting but we are wanting to cut a PNG out of vinyl today so what I want to do is show you all exactly how to achieve this now I'm looking for an image that doesn't have a ton of detail but that we are going to be able to break apart into different layers so we're just going to find an image we like I love this enjoy your day we're going to go ahead and download that and it's going to pop into a zip folder now something good about the makers going to learn website is that most of the time whenever we upload new cut files you're going to get the PNG as well as the SVG version of an image but that's not always the case so what we're going to do now is take this image it's only a PNG so we do not have the SVG version of this but I'm going to show you in just a few easy steps how easy it can be to take one of these pngs and convert it so the first way that I want to show you after you've downloaded your image let's go back to the internet we are going to go to this website it's literally called PNG to svg.com now this website is going to convert it for us which is super super helpful so you can see we can just drag and drop a file what I'm going to do is pop open my finder I've got my image selected right here if you can't find your image go to your recents or your downloads and it should be there and I'm just going to drag and drop this into the website there are many different websites to do this this one just works the best for us and once you upload the image you can see down here we have our image uploaded so it's picked up on five different colors which is perfect the next thing that we need to do is generate our image now one thing that's going to be very important for you all especially when you're using the website version is that you are using pngs with a transparent background if you have pulled an image out of Google you're going to want to make sure that you are pulling images that have a clear background a transparent background if you will the reason I know that this has a transparent background is because I have this gray on Gray checkerboard back here and also Maker's going to learn PNG images always are uploaded to the website without a background so you're not going to run into to that issue whenever you're pulling pgs off of our website if you try to pull one off of Google you're going to need to make sure that you are pulling them off with a transparent background let me show you all how to know if you were doing that or not okay so I just Googled rainbow just for an example you can go to tools color and then select transparent this is going to filter out any images that do do not have a transparent background so you're going to see all of these whenever you download them will have a transparent background but typically we're going to be using makers going to learn images so you're not going to have to worry about that now we've got our image uploaded so the next thing we're going to want to do is generate our image and then we are going to download the SVG and you can see it pops in once that downloads I'm going to hit control click and I'm going to select show and folder so it's going to take show in finder so it's going to take me right to my image inside of my downloads keep it selected come down here to Cricket and then make sure you are on the uploads area so go to the left hit upload image and then I'm going to go to our finder and just click and drag that svgn okay now we'll need to select upload and then you can select your image add to Canvas and there you have it now you can see over here we have multiple layers and everything is separated into its own specific color y'all that is so easy so what this is going to look like whenever you go to cut this out of vinyl go to make it and then you can see each of these colors are going to be on their own matte how how handy is that y'all so you can cut these out of these different color vinyls and then you can layer them on your own now sometimes whenever we use this technique we will run into a lot of jagged edges and what I mean by that is and it may not even be noticeable that much for you all but sometimes there will be like Jagged edges along the edges of the image and that's just the nature of using that converter uh but most of of the time it does pretty good now there is another way to achieve this look and it takes a little bit longer but I feel like sometimes it can look a little bit more clean so let me show you all exactly how to do that let's go to upload I'm going to upload an image this time we're going to actually pull the PNG into design space so we're not pulling that SVG we converted we're going to pull the original image so we're going to pull the enjoy your day PNG into design space I'm going to hit complex and continue now the less colors you have for this the quicker you're going to be able to do it now this image has a ton of colors okay but what we're doing virtually is erasing any of the colors that we don't want but this one has five colors if you remember so we're going to have to repeat this process five times and what I mean by that is let's just select a color to start with let's say we want to do we want to cut the blue what that means for us is we're going to have to get rid of anything that is not blue for the first upload so I'm going to zoom in pretty close and then we can use the select tool to do most of these you can just go in here select anything that is not blue okay and zoom out to make sure you got everything if you want a preview cut image you can totally do that and I can already see here we still have some of those outlines from our rainbow this is when I like to go in with my erase tool kind of size it up and you can make it even bigger and we can remove this rainbow right here cuz we don't want any of that and I'm going going to zoom in even to the letters and make sure that those are cleaned up as well and they look pretty good to me make sure I'm just scrolling around to make sure that there's no other little elements that we may not want and then we can go off of this Zoom back out make sure everything looks good I'm going to hit apply and continue in this instance we're going to want to use the cut image okay and then what you're going to do is repeat the process for each one now if you're like I don't really need all those colors I really just wanted the rainbow to be different colors I don't need to do that with the words you can select the portions that you want to keep together so what I mean by that is basically removing anything that you don't want and so you would repeat that same process for every letter now this one like I said it's going to take a little bit longer but we've already done the blue so we're just going to delete this I'm going to repeat the process kind of speed things up so you all can just get the gist for what we're doing and then I'll show you how to lay it out in design space if you accidentally erase something that you don't want to erase just come up here and click the undo button okay so you can see we had five colors in our image and now I have five images here so I'm just going to select these all and you can see they pop down here and we're going to add them to our canvas this is going to allow you also to customize the colors for however you want them you just have to kind of piece them together and if it helps you you can color them as you place them so I'm just going to select random colors just so you all can get a good idea of what is going on here you can see it actually pulls in the colors that originally it used but you can kind of swap them around if you want and I would try to make sure not resize anything until you've got it all situated where it's actually supposed to go and like I said before select everything together before you resize and then I'm just going to show you all what these look like side by side and obviously we're going to be placing all of this manually whenever after we cut it out so if you cutting this out of HTV you would actually have to apply this in layers with your HTV so you're really only going to be using this technique for very specific projects but it comes in handy whenever you've got a PNG image that you really want to break into different layers now typically if you had a PNG you could just use like a printable heat transfer vinyl or something like that to get the entire image but this is just a good way for you all and a good technique for you all to use in your future designs if you did want to break it apart and use different colors of HTV so this is the first technique that I taught you all and this is the second one let me know which one you all are going to try out today in the comments I would love to know and let me know your thoughts on turning pngs into svgs if you would rather just keep it a PNG and printed on printable HTV or if you enjoy this part of the design space or if you enjoy being able to manipulate your files and make things completely custom I hope you all found today's tutorial super helpful and I hope that you're going to be able to feel like you can elevate your crafts now and really not be limited by a flattened PNG image when you really want to cut it out and use your own special colors if you all try this technique out and you're a member make sure to post it in our member only Facebook group we always love to see your all's creations and if you're not a member and you really liked what you saw today make sure to check out the maker going to learn website and the description below we've got a link for you all we would love for you to be part of our crafty Community we will see you all in the next video make sure to subscribe and hit the little bell so you're notified the next time that we post and we will see you all there bye