hey everybody tanya from shooting star
svg back
and today i am going to talk about how
to create a basic svg in inkscape
which is a free to download program on
your computer you could probably follow
these same tactics with
but for the purposes of this i'm just
going to go through it in inkscape
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stuff today i'm going to be working on a
series of inkscape videos
and we're going to start from the basics
and work our way up if you're looking to
sell
digital downloads and digital svgs on
etsy
so again i'm just going to go through a
basic text example
we're going to check it out in
silhouette studio and we're going to
check it out in qriket design space okay
so first things first is we're going to
get our text out there
and
click off that and i'm a bit of a font
hoarder so
i have a lot of them there are certain
ones that are my go-to
and
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voila i'll post the links to those texts
below so now that you have your words
let me move this out of the way let me
move all these out of the way
there we go you can kind of place them
where you want i actually i
have this sign in my dining room right
now
so it's a cute sign
everybody always laughs when they see it
you can make your text uniform if you
want
one thing i will mention is when you are
expanding your text make sure your
aspect ratio is locked
you can eyeball it um for the
script i'm going to do that because
these two right here i know i want to be
a little bit bigger
but for this i'm going to try to make
them as uniform as possible so i'm just
gonna copy how big that text was
and it looks like this one's a little
bit bigger
so i will
make this one the same all right so we
got that
all sorted right now you're going to
select all of your text
and hit ctrl shift a to align
your text so what this is going to do is
this is going to start center everything
on the vertical axis and then it's going
to distribute all the centers equally
okay you're going to group it and then
move it to the center of your page okay
now i'm going to show you
what this will look like i'm just going
to click save real fast in
silhouette studio
without moving any further and a lot of
people will not move any further
with this and this is where the trouble
gets in if you don't know what you're
doing or you don't test out your files
when i click on send
you can see that with the script text
you're going to have
cuts on your letters because the text
was not unionized
so we're going to go back and fix that
i'm going to close out of here
it would do the same thing in qriket
design space so let's ungroup this
okay so the next step you're going to do
is you're going to union um
unionized you're going to create
everything to a path because right now
they're text so if i try to ungroup this
i cannot do it there's no option for me
to ungroup
because the text um
it's not a path yet so you're going to
go to path object to path
and you can see that it also has a
hotkey here shift ctrl c
so again i'll go through it again path
object to path or here you could click
on it and hit
control shift c and then ctrl
shift c now what your what you will
notice
is you can ungroup these
okay and then you can go to path
union right so we're going to go ahead
and do that with
everything and what this is going to do
is
um and i'm using the hotkeys now
because it's going to weld all your text
together
okay so now i'm going to
group everything and i'm going to click
file save
we're going to go ahead and open this up
in silhouette studio
and it's ready to cut so you can see
that that went away
okay now you have the full cut and
you're not cutting into any other
letters
right now with qriket design space i'm
going to go ahead and click on upload
image
browse and test
now you can see what's going to happen
here it's going to come out like this
and it's going to open too big this
happens to me every time
i'm dumping things into
design space so you can see here
with this little triangle
image too large reduce image size
everything's grouped together
right so which is good you're just going
to come over here to size
and you're just going to change your
width down to like i don't know 12
make sure your aspect ratio is locked
and
then you're going to um
put your x position to zero and your y
position is zero
and that'll bring it up for you okay
then you have it here
and you can expand this out and if you
click on make it
oh boy
uh
okay so i'm not sure why it's giving me
this error i'll have to go back and see
because it looks like
let me see if i can take that out
and make it okay so it is sorting it by
color right now
and i think the reason why is because it
was just too big
so let me go ahead and oh yeah okay yeah
the size is way
way way way way big and it's because my
document size is
not where it needs to be um
so now that i bring that down you're
going to weld everything
that's going to keep everything on the
same mat and then you're just going to
click on make it
and it will cut the entire thing out so
sorry about that little snafu there
and that's it that's all i have to do
so i just showed you how to take a basic
set of text
and test it in both programs so that you
know that it's working
um and so you can cut in both of the
programs and create that for sale
so that's all i have to go over in this
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a great night