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today's tutorial is really exciting
because
it's all about how to make an svg file
or a cutting file for cricut and
silhouette which is
such a big craze these days with your
cutting machines
i personally don't own one but i want
i've always wanted one
just to play around with it but i do
know how to make the files
that you need to to upload into design
space
so this tutorial is mostly about if you
want to sell svgs in your etsy shop
or on your own website this is the right
video for you
to avoid getting in massive trouble do
not steal anyone's intellectual property
always check the commercial licensing on
anything that you use
in the us a good place to go is
uspto.gov
okay on the home screen we're going to
go to create a design
and if you scroll all the way down you
see custom and that's what i hit
and i'm going to click 3000 by 3000
pixels you can always type that in if
you don't have that
and i'm going to rename this file svg
designs
all right so i'm going to make a sips
and trips
and we're going to go up to elements
first because i'm looking for a
coffee element um and canva just changed
this but it
it's pretty still self-explanatory so
when i go up here i'm going to type in
coffee outline
because svg files need to be
outlined to make it easy for people to
weed when they
when they use a cutting machine so i
like to make them easy so anyways i want
to select
free because i don't know if
people who are watching this all have
canva pro no one has canva pro and
they're only using free
so i'm gonna go and click the static and
the free uh in the filter that you just
saw me do
all right so i'm just going to look
around real quick to see
if i find a design that stands out to me
i don't really want
it filled in with color but because like
i said
svg cutting files they're usually
layered and when you
upload them into design space there's
usually
different uh layers that stack up on top
of each other and so we want to make it
as easy as possible so i'm gonna make a
pretty flat
uh design here this this is good but
it's not quite what i'm looking for i
don't really like the center of this
it's not very easy to see and i think
that'd be really hard to cut
so what i'm going to do is i'm going to
go back and i'm going to look for
something else
now canva has a cool way of having these
magic recommendations
which is perfect because it was hard for
me to find this just by typing in right
so i'm going to pick this one for now
but as you can see there's a lot more
magic recommendations that you can go
into
if this one still isn't your cup of tea
all right so next i'm going to go up
here
and type in the word line because i just
want a separator
i'm gonna go to graphics
and i don't know why it's it's hard for
me to find a line right now but i'm
gonna try to find one
um oh that one's different
i just want a standard line
okay so since i can't find that right
now and i don't want to make you guys
wait i'm going to choose this one
and i'm going to flip it over to 90
degrees you can see
the degrees there change it to black
um i don't like this box at the end the
square so i'm gonna crop it out so i
just hit crop
make this a little smaller hit crop
and crop that box out by simply just
dragging the edges over the box
perfect okay so now i'm just going to
put this in the center here
try to line it up as much as possible um
and then i'm going to go and look for a
target like a bullseye
cause sips and trips is kind of
insinuating that you love
starbucks and that you love target runs
all right so this one's good i like this
but again i don't want it red
so i'm going to center this a little bit
make it a little bit
i don't know i think that looks good for
right at the second but we're going to
go up
and change the color of that target to
black so
go up here change it to black all right
now i'm gonna add text so i'm gonna go
over
and make this a little smaller first
move it down
all right i'm happy with that i'm
happier i don't know if i'm super happy
with the target but
we'll mess with that later let's go over
to
our text box and add some text
okay text and we're going to
add a heading
okay make this bigger and move it under
my coffee and then i'm going to put in
the word sips okay and then i'm gonna
try to play around with some
uh fonts my favorite font right now
is in the amsterdam family um you'll see
that there's four different types of
amsterdam
and i don't know it's too big of an s
let me
keep playing around i like it but
it might not work let's see
no i think i'm going to just stick with
amsterdam 3 since that has a smaller s
okay
i like that that's not too bad so i'm
going to go back to amsterdam three and
then i'm gonna
copy and paste by using command c
and command v but you know obviously you
might have different hotkeys than me
i have a macbook so i'm gonna center
this make an and
um and then i'm going to center this a
little bit more
go back to my simpson and copy again
put it under the target and then i'm
going to put trips and
you know okay
let me move these trips over a little
bit more
and i'm happy with that okay
i selected everything to make it bigger
okay i'm not happy with this coffee so
i'm gonna try to look for another one
and show you how easy it is to change it
going back to elements
typing in coffee outline um you can
always type in anything you want
i'm gonna go to these magic
recommendations
and i'm gonna go and pick this one with
the circle in the front because it's
more starbucksy
make it bigger um i wish the outline was
a little thicker of a line but it's okay
you guys get the point of what i'm doing
here
okay i don't like this target either
it's too i don't like that it's only two
uh two circles all right so i'm gonna go
down
and okay i like this one because it has
three
so it looks a little bit cleaner and it
just looks better
better all around all right let's move
this make it smaller ah
make it smaller and move it up
so much happier with this um
now we're going to move it up a little
bit and then we're going to
download so now let's say we're done
with our svg now we want to make it an
svg right
so i'm going to go up to here and make
it a ping with
a transparent background which you can
only do if you have a canva pro
however so i'm gonna download this right
now put it on my put it on my
desktop and but if you don't have camera
pro and you want to do this for free
download it as a jpeg okay i have the
option to make the quality better so i
always do that
so i'm downloading as a jpeg and i'm
going to go to
removebg.com
okay remove vg.com
and i'm just going to drag and drop
this jpeg right into remove bg
so as you can see it looks great here
now
you can download an hd but you have to
sign up i'm just going to download the
regular download
see if you hit download hd it's going to
ask you to sign up i don't need to sign
up you might want
to to keep the size in the resolution
so i know this looks crazy right now but
this is what it looks like
on my mac preview and if you go up
to tools you can go to change size
and i can make the resolution 300 dpi
now if you don't have a macbook that's
why i recommend signing up
so you can get that size okay
moving back to our canva template i
wanted to quickly show you that
canva pro does have the option to
download as
svg but what i found is that it still
needs some work
it's pretty new for canva and what i
found is that when i download that
people can only open that svg
in a design space but they can't open it
in anything else like
photoshop or illustrator it turns out
blank so i go to this website called
convergio they have a free plan
and what you can do is you can simply
drag and drop
the ping that you downloaded either with
remove bg or
from canva pro and you can
download it right here and you can
switch it to svg
and hit convert convergio has a paid
subscription if you are downloading lots
of files and converting lots of files
on the daily but if you just if you're
just converting one it's no it's no big
deal at all
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and i will see you guys next week bye
you