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[HeatherM]

Hi Judy,

What if you cut a solid Santa, possibly with a Path Inset so that no white extends outside of the red, and layered the red detailed Santa on top? It won't have texture, but it will be white.

[btails]

I was wondering about that...the background would be white with the backlit paper but can print an image onto it ....thanks for all the help !!

[papasue]

This may sound dumb, but why don't you import the santa into SCAL2, duplicate it and do a shadow, or a shadow/blackout. Then delete the original, or cut them together. On this one I didn' do anything but import the downloaded .svg, import into SCAL2 and did "blackout". I can see that santa needs some help but the theory seems correct.

what am I missing here. I always do it this way and find it much easier. Inquiring minds want to know.

[btails]

I am waiting till after the 1st to get scal 2.....have more blocks to get out and just can't go through another learning experience right now....go cricut last Dec and has taken me this long to get this much done...but can't wait....your idea of the shadow blackout is what I remember from earlier post but thought I could do it in ink....got it done the way dogcarbon has shown me....just wondering if I can keep them both the same size in scal...thanks for everyone's help !!Judy

[DogCarbon]

This may sound dumb, but why don't you import the santa into SCAL2, duplicate it and do a shadow, or a shadow/blackout. Then delete the original, or cut them together. On this one I didn' do anything but import the downloaded .svg, import into SCAL2 and did "blackout". I can see that santa needs some help but the theory seems correct.

what am I missing here. I always do it this way and find it much easier. Inquiring minds want to know.

For me, I find it easier to manipulate in Ink.... I like seeing the nodes, and knowing exactly where it is going to cut.... I guess I am a geek....

[talanhart]

I'm confused! Is that picture supposed to look like that with all the pieces mixed up?

[papasue]

No Todd. I didn't take the time to clean up the original drawing since my point was to illustrate that once you've done your design and gotten it the way you want it you can import it into SCAL and do a blackout to accomplish the same thing a little faster and easier than in Ink especially if you are a newbie to Ink.

[talanhart]

I just wanted to make sure I was understanding correctly since I don't use Ink very often. I know in the past when I have used Ink, some files look funny but actually cut correctly which I don't understand either with the SCAL program. I was thinking this might have been one of those instances.

[HeatherM]

I know in the past when I have used Ink, some files look funny but actually cut correctly which I don't understand either with the SCAL program. I was thinking this might have been one of those instances.

SusanE uses Ink47 since she has a Mac. You have to use any of the Path operations in the section with Path/Union and Path/Exclusion to get an Ink47 vector for SCAL. This includes traces, vector PDF files, fonts, and it looks like files originally made in Ink46.