Resize Door Hanger SVGs in MINUTES for Stunning Christmas Ornaments!

we just resized this 16-in door hanger SVG to make a 4in Christmas ornament and we'll show you how we did it right now what is up welcome back do you like to do it Builder to make it so do we and we have new videos each week we often get asked how do I resize or Shrink an SVG while maintaining the proportions of the design and will resizing affect the level of detail in the design it might seem as simple as grabbing everything selecting a corner and shrinking the whole design but there are a few things to consider we're going to show you how to shrink this 16-in door hanger SVG down to this 4in Christmas ornament without losing a lot of detail and without it burning up and we're only going to use light burn we're going to download our SVG from K&M it.com we can start by going to shop all products we can go to laser cut ready at digital downloads and at the top of the page we have some instructions so in our files we use blue lines for score lines green lines are optional I like to use them as a deep score our red lines are cut lines and black lines are engraved we also have an example cut file we'll use this filter to filter on Christmas and we'll scroll down I'm looking for one of our hot sellers so that we can make this into an ornament here it is Merry Christmas we'll add it to our cart we'll go through checkout and when we go through checkout we'll receive an email that has our download links in it so we'll download we'll open it up I'll extract it all now we're going to make this an ornament using a light burn so I'm going to find my SVG that I want let's go with this one I'm just going to drag it in all right select everything and Center it so I can see it all slow it down how did you just select everything so fast oh I did crol a to select everything CR a we'll select everything that's in this file now what I really want to do is I want to resize this down to 4 in what is it right now should be 16 well this is 18 it's a little over 18 in Old file all right so I'm going to group these pieces all the top pieces I'm going to select them oo this is a good tip you're ready for a real hot tip now if I drag from the bottom right to the top left anything I touch will get selected but if I drag from the top left to the bottom right only things that are encapsulated by my selection will get selected so I'm going to grab everything make sure it's grouped by hitting Control G I'm going to grab everything here make sure it's grouped we can group it up here or contrl G and we'll grab this last one and make sure everything is grouped I'm going to grab all of these and I will align them H Center horizontal center now I know they're all in line and it's about 18 in I want this to be about 4 in so I'm just going to come up here with my aspect ratio lacked I'm going to change my height to 4 in and you can't do width because you've got three objects on there yeah my width was way wider than my height so I'm going to select the backer now to see what I actually have 4 in which means the highest part of this whole design was the backer I think we're good to go perfect all right but we know now that I shrank it a bunch of the stuff is going to burn up like look at these lights these lights are tiny now and like I'll back it out to it actual size might be and we can see like these little tails on the s's I think they'll burn up this little tail on the H will burn up so we're going to thicken everything up to make sure it doesn't burn up and get rid of some of these details that I'm pretty sure will also burn up I'm going to grab Merry Christmas and I'm going to add an offset to it offset shapes now inside offset shapes let's zoom in a little bit I can zoom in by hitting my control key and using my scroll on your mouse on my mouse yes I'm going to hit cancel because it doesn't look like I have everything selected now I'm going to go back to offset now for my offset I don't want to thicken it up too much right if I just use these buttons it's going to put a heck of an offset on it I don't need something that big I think I really only need like 01 I just want to thicken it up a little bit and if you see right now I have outward cuz I want to make it bigger my corner Styles I want Corners like if I have a corner I want it to look like a corner if I round it off it's going to round all my Corners over here on options I don't want outer shapes only see it's only got the sh see it's just the outline of Merry Christmas so we're going to uncheck this and you'll see it caught all the stuff in the middle now now inside of the a inside of the r now when I hit okay I want the object that I just created to be selected I won't need the object that I started with so I'm going to delete that and then because I shrank it so much I do want to make sure it gets optimized and simplified I'm bringing those nodes together and sometimes they'll get wonky if they're too close together so I'm going to leave optimized and simplified results checked now we hit okay there it's slightly bigger now and I think the H looks thicker I think we're okay I'm going to do the same thing to Merry Christmas over here since it's all grouped and selected I'm going to start by giving it an offset I'm going to use all of the same settings that I just used so we'll say okay but now all these lights in here I think will still burn up and I'm not gonna in the original design I have all the lights so that they could come out you can paint them any color you want without painting in the lines and put them back in I think I'm just going to use a paint marker or something to paint these lights so let's get rid of these we're going to ungroup I'm going to make it a singular person now I can hold shift and select each one of these I'm trying not to select the other the other outline because if I select the other outline there's no going back I have to start over once I have them all selected just going to hit my delete key looks a lot more simple now mhm but because I ungrouped it before to get rid of all those everything's ungrouped so if I grab this outline here and move it you can see that it's just a bunch of little cut pieces now so I'm going to hit contrl Z to put my piece back I'm going to grab everything and we're going to group it now finally my backer I don't need these little ribbon slots anymore but because I thickened up this light a little bit it's going to overhang just slightly so we are going to thicken up this backer I'm going to ungroup we'll make it a singular just going to grab these ribbon slots and hit my delete key now back here I want to grab all of this red at the same time but I don't want to grab the blue score line so over here in my layers I'm going to hide output and I'm going to hide show now I can grab all of this stuff and hit contrl G to group it back over here to my offset I'm going to leave all the settings the same and okay now I can bring back my score lines I need a way to hang it on the tree now so I'm going to draw the little hanger part I'm going to click on my ellipse tool I'm going to start to draw my circle and I'm going to hold shift so keep the aspect ratio locked I'm going to let it go up here with height I'm just going to make it half inch now from here I'm going to hit control d which will create a duplicate let's go back to my selection tool see perfect duplicate right over top contrl Z to put it back well it's still selected going to come up here and make it a/ quarter inch now I have a little hole but I want to make this a real hole so I'm going to select them both and over here I'm going to do minus or bully and subtract so now it should be all one object I'm going to group these real quick down here the backer group cuz I want to place this right in the middle grab them both align okay now I'm going to ungroup these real quick ungroup grab the backer and my tab back over here to Boolean unite there we go now grab everything and group it from here most lasers you can cut directly from lightburn and we'll be using our xtool p2s today and we can cut from lightburn with the P2 as well but when you're cutting from lightburn you're not able to use the autofocus feature so we found it's just easier to export your file as an SVG and we'll import it into creative space and use it in Creative space as I would any SVG so we'll call this Merry Christmas now we're going to import our ornament SVG into creative space I'm going to go find the SVG that I just exported out of lightburn we're going to check the size 4.35 all right it came over at the right size it's a little over 4 in because we gave it the little tab on the top okay now here I'm going to select my material we're going to use some 3mm birch plywood it cuts easy it cuts fast now we're going to set up our cut files so that our score and cut lines are correct so we're going to select down here in the bottom left our blue layer now over here we're going to make sure we're on the score Tab and I can see right here what kind of scoring I'll get I'm going to keep it with what it suggests 220 200 speed 20% power I'm going to select the red layer now and we're going to make sure we have our cut tab selected and I'm going to I'm going to go with the recommended value again okay we're going to measure our material aimed measure I'm going to put it down here in the corner so I'm going to aim over here well it's measuring the corner I'm going to move it down in the corner all right it came back with my my measurements this is where we're at I have the honeycomb in there so it's going to give me something a little larger than our 8 in piece of material I think we're ready to cut let's process and [Music] start here we have two examples this is the actual 16-in door hang shrunk down to 4 in we didn't make any changes you can see the ribbon holes are still there the lights are still there with their frames and the inside pieces have fallen out at this point they're pretty burned up without making any changes to the file you can see that this is just it's just going to fall and Flake apart it is super thin the letters have burnt up and it's not going to work as is you can see the light strand is pretty thin and it gets because the cuts are so close together that residue really builds up on the top it looks darker and charred right it's really changed the color of the wood now the one beside it is the file we modified in lightburn you can see here that we merged or we removed the inside of the frame so that the light bulbs are just part of the light strand we thickened up the letters so that they are a little bit further apart when you're making the cut so it's not changing the color of the wood and we added our ribbon hole hanger here at the top so that you can add some ribbon and hang your ornament let's give our new file a quick paint we're going to be using our foxy Hues paints these are our outdoor acrylic house paints so they're perfect for these door hangers but they also work on interior projects because they are acrylic paint and they're going to be great for this ornament so we're going to give this thing a quick paint add a little star Bond thick to glue the pieces together wood to wood and then add a little piece of ribbon so we can hang it a [Music] pretty easy right resizing things shrinking them down inside light burn adding a little offset pretty easy now if you want to get into more detailed designs where we take apart a more detailed design to shrink it down and really fix it using illustrator I did that over there in patreon you should join us over there otherwise we're about out of time I have to go shrink a bunch more signs to make some more Christmas ornaments you have to go try it out yourself big thanks to all of our patrons we love you guys and that is the best way to support this channel that is a great community over there and we will see you guys over there in illustrator and we'll see you on Tuesday for another test cut Tuesday where we have a new design every week that we paint and chat [Music]