Silhouette Pixscan Mat Tutorial

Place on your pixscan mat and take a photo with your phone or camera.

Silhouette pixscan mat tutorial.

Part 1 of 2 thursday september 11 2014. It s fairly easy and if you have a lot to cut it can be a huge timesaver. To accurately and preciously cut pre printed materials like a print and cut for pre printed materials and also to sketch etch or cut with extreme accuracy on very small craft blanks or vinyl scraps. If you haven t calibrated your pixscan mat for your camera here s how.

The pixscan mat has a cover sheet and a sticky surface just. Print the labels and trim down to about an 8 10 size. Use the standard photo size not square. Any material placed on the mat can be imported into silhouette studio via scanner or camera and then have cut lines assigned through tracing drawing tools or opening designs.

The pixscan mat comes with its own registration marks which allows it to use the silhouette s optical scanner to find the right place to cut. The pixscan mat will not even appear as an option in the cutting mat drop down unless you are using a relatively old version of the software. Now that the software is set up let s work on the mat. Pixscan technology allows you to cut precisely around any printed image or position cut lines in a specific location on your material using a camera or scan.

Canning mason jar labels download the set i created here step one. Today i wanted to share a tutorial on how to fussycut images using the silhouette pixscan mat. Silhouette pixscan tutorial fussycutting images hi everyone.