Silhouette Pixscan Mat Tutorial

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.

Silhouette pixscan mat tutorial. Silhouette pixscan tutorial for beginners. 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. Today i wanted to share a tutorial on how to fussycut images using the silhouette pixscan mat. Place on your pixscan mat and take a photo with your phone or camera.

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. Canning mason jar labels download the set i created here step one. Now that the software is set up let s work on the mat. Use the standard photo size not square.

Cardstock or white stick paper. Print the labels and trim down to about an 8 10 size. 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. Silhouette pixscan tutorial fussycutting images hi everyone.

If you haven t calibrated your pixscan mat for your camera here s how. The silhouette pixscan mat is used for two main purposes. It s fairly easy and if you have a lot to cut it can be a huge timesaver.