Sticker Design: How to Offset Text and Images for Cricut with Inkscape
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
- Inkscape step-by-step beginner, intermediate tutorial on how to offset text or PNG images using Inkscape with ease. 3 easy methods include: Linked Offset, Live Path Effects Offset, and Paint Bucket. BONUS Tutorial: How to create a spiral hexagonal geometric design using Create Tiled Clones Shift, Scale, and Rotate Follow along at your own pace and make something beautiful today.
TIME STAMPS:
0:00 Intro
1:00 Setting the Canvas Background Color
1:48 Linked Offset
3:22 Path Effects - Offset
7:11 Offset a PNG Image with Paint Bucket
10:03 Hexagonal Spiral Design: Create Tiled Clones Settings
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This was great thank you!
Excelente excelente tutorial 👍🏻👍🏻 thank you
great video, always nice to see more
Thanks! More coming.
Very cool tutorial, thanks you. I vote for more of these!
Thanks!! I'll try to come up with some variations that could be interesting.
This is a so great video. Thanks for that. Please make more something like that with tiled clones
Awesome.
Thanks!!
Once again, thanks for this super useful content :) I just made my sticker using the techniques you've mentioned! Can't wait to see them printed.
Awesome! Good stuff!
Your way to teach is very interesting.
Thanks!
I clicked the like button before watching your video. As always you came up with something new to learn like using bucket on png and clone geometry. Thank you Rick.
Request: It would really help if you can share how various options in Clone > Symmetry tab work. 🙏🏼
Thank you!! And another great idea as always! I've been messing around with the Symmetry tab, and a lot of the drop down choices have to do with mirroring and pivoting. I'll try to work in some exploration of the tab in the dedicated video to that hexagonal spiral. I want to show 4 or 5 cool examples if I can.
Awesome thanks, it's funny I was just googling how to do this the other day, I only found how to do it with the paint bucket, look forward to learning the other methods!
Thanks!! The Paint Bucket sends me on rants sometimes, but it can be useful. I like the other ways too.
Thanks for your tutorials. They are really clear and easy to understand. Much appreciated! I do have a cricut and I would be interested in creating mandala designs in inkscape if you are ever interested in that sort of tutorial.
Thank you!! And, great idea! I think creating mandala designs could be really fun. I'll start playing around with some ideas.
It's very nice of you to have a smiling face, we are watching with pleasure.
I think the hexagon shape after 10:00 min is a short explanation.
I made the Create Tiled clones settings exactly one-to-one with your example values, but it turns out to be complicated. I don't know much about using Inkscape.
Thank you so much! I made an update to the hexagon tutorial that may make things simpler. Here it is if you want to check it out: ua-cam.com/video/EpHi2_5hTdY/v-deo.html
These tutorials have been very helpful. I have had inkscape for about six months but didn't understand most how use it very well. I have learned a lot and just started watching your channel. Look forward to seeing more videos.
Thanks so much, and glad to hear! I'll keep making these.
Amazing. Yes, Cricut machines can cut the most inticate designs. So they can cut the o out of the o. Thanks for the tutorial. Keep going.
Nice !!!! 😄
Thanks!!
Thanks
Thanks!
Great Video! Thank you very much.
I don't have a Cricut machine, but a Silhouette Cameo. It's possible to cut very tiny holes especially if you use thin materials like sticker sheets.
Thanks! And thanks for the info too! I was wondering what the limits are for cutting size.
Oh this looks like fun. I will try it to see if it works on mandalas.
Thanks so much! I just replied to your email too! Let me know if it's on track.
............ SUPER SUPER VIDEO !!!!! LIKE !!!!!
Thank you, thank you very much!!
I don't have a Cricut but I want one! Thanks Rick
That makes two of us. Thanks!!
You are doing a lot of the hard boarding research into Inkscape for us all Rick Nice one mate!
Thank you for the .png to offset .
This will be very useful , already having idea overload of what I can do with it.
It looks cold there in Canada.
Big thanks again from sunny Tenerife! 👍🐺👍
Thanks Nik!! It's been fun testing things out. And, yes way to cold here the other night. 2 Fahrenheit (I'm in Boston, MA). Filmed this one in a puffer jacket. Ha.
@@IronEchoDesign Don't know why I thought you were in Canada Rick. 🤷♂️ My Bad 😉 Stay safe mate.
Haha! No worries!! We're all neighbors in this big beautiful world!
yes i would like to see more
Alright, thanks! I'm doing them then.
Great tutorial Sir ❤️❤️❤️ . Please make more of these types of logo video .
Thank you! And, will do!
Astigmatism Trigger Alert! 😂
Great tutorial as always! Fun to watch
Haha! I'll have to put a warning on this one. Thanks!
@@IronEchoDesign it isn't that bad really. Some shirts worn in the office can be much worse! 😂
Love your tutorials and have learnt a lot.... new to inkscape and to cricut but love being able to design my own stuff. I would love to know how you get the warnings (yellow triangle)? Is it a clever thing you have set up for your lesson or is it a tool in inkscape (warning if you like, to let you know why an element is not working)
Thanks! I need to try out a Cricut. Looks really fun.
Great content. How about clone tool to fill shape with scales. For example, mermaid(preferred), fish, dragon, snake, etc.
Awesome idea. There's a bunch of different ways to approach this. I actually just uploaded a new tutorial on repeating patterns. You could try that technique with scales and when you have your "square" finished choose Object- Pattern- Objects to Pattern. Then you could make any object have the scale pattern as a Fill. Use Edit paths by Node to change the direction or size of the scale pattern when it's on your object as a fill. Hope this helps!
Great as always. I don't think you needed to enter a -100% shift for Y, as there is only 1 column. It's 50 rows, so only the X shift needs to be -100% as you had it.
Thanks! And, you're right! I tried to make the correction in the next video. Good catch.
I am having issues with the text offset. I am not getting a dot to drag, just a duplication of the word is dragging off the original. I am on version 1.2 and following your instructions but do not have an Alpha option on colour wheel display - there is a strip which says Alpha when I click on it and I set this to zero, but no difference. What am I missing? Thanks for reply re putting pattern into Cricut, still to try out.
Rick. I am designing a water-slide decal - like you use on a model. We have established the proportionality and now we are at the stage where it is ready to be printed; never did this before. The rectangle body has rounded corners and a stroke of White also with rounded corners. The decal film he is using is White. I need to put a border surrounding the decal so after it is printed it will show the White stroke, but without cutting into the stroke itself. Thank you in advance for your assistance!
Great question. Is it possible to get a test sample? Either way, you could set the width of the white border to whatever the printer requires by punching in the offset settings if you do it through Path Effects. Or, make the border an object with no stroke underneath the design and offset to the desired amount. Would either of these work?
@@IronEchoDesign Would you need the .pgn or the actual .svg file? Either one is fine. I probably did it old-school. I exported a .png of it and put onto your Instagram.
Thank you for another wonderful tutorial. In the first and second methods, is it possible to select all the letters at once instead of pressing shift and selecting each letter individually? I complete designs by using voice commands.
Yes, after you convert your text to path the result is a "group" of paths, so instead of manually clicking each letter you can simply select the group and ungroup it then combine it. Using shortcuts that means using: Shift + Ctrl + G followed by Ctrl + K
Genius!!! Many thanks, and I appreciate the help!
Thanks so much, and the comment below (or above) from SO 1291 is an excellent solution. I'm so grateful for this community of Inkscape artists.
Ty soo much. I was able to take that Spiral into my Embroidery Software as an emf, and it autodigitized perfectly. I was even able to add connections to all 50 curves, and the beauty of it was that the connections were invisible becasue they were on the the curves. It was perfect! Just wondering....can you figure out how to make a continuous stipple around an image or object? I can send you a pic of what I mean. I have a seamless stipple pattern, many of them, but can't figure out how to get it to flow around an image in Inkscape.
Thanks so much! This makes my day. I love hearing how design elements are used in projects. Yes, send me a picture, and maybe we can solve the stipple pattern surround challenge. Do you have Twitter? Or I think my email is listed on the channel About tab. Happy to help if I can.
@@IronEchoDesign , ty for helping! I tried to send you an email, but it bounced back. I think I have twitter, but have not been on there in quite a while. I will click on your Twitter link and see what happens.
Hi Lisa! I just played around with the pattern you sent and there is a built in tool in Inkscape that does let you wrap around objects. It's under Path Effects - Pattern Along Path. I was able to make a quilt square like in your example, but the tool doesn't get in the 4 corners. Would your project allow a few adjustments by hand?
@@IronEchoDesign, Hi, ty so much for doing this! Yes, I also tried the Pattern Along Path effect, and had the same corner issue, plus I could only get one row around my image. The stitching is done on the embroidery machine, so it would be very difficult to place each design manually. I wish I could figure out how these other Embroidery software's get that smooth, morphed stitch out. Does Inkscape have a "morphing/ warping tool that will wrap continuously? Or, is that basically what Pattern Along Path is?
This is a fun design challenge! I'll play around with this some more tonight. Got to help get the kids to bed now. I got it with one corner looking okay. Draw a spiral starting from one corner of square and circle down evenly until you get to the center graphic. Pattern along path with Repeated Copies. Not close to perfect yet.
what if there is a lock on link offset?
I’ve tried to follow your video, which is great by the way. Not sure if it’s me or Inkscape. I copied and pasted png with clear background into Inkscape, click on bucket but I keep getting “area is not bounded cannot fill” what am I doing wrong
Recently I discoverd the `Layers and Objects` menu, looks a lot like in photoshop, but does it allow user to change the opacity of each object or layer ? I can't find the option to do this
Great question! You can open up the Layers Tab from the top Menu: Layer> Layers or click on the icon in the menu bar that looks like three pieces of paper stacked vertically. Objects Menu you can get to from the Objects Dropdown in the top menu Objects>Objects. Also, I believe the Inkscape team of developers are working on a new combined Layers/Objects menu with more functionality. Should be cool to see how it works.
After writing this comment I need to llok for my jaw on the floor. This is just wow :P
Haha! These are fun to make so easily!
How to export the stickers along with the gray background ?
Do you mean the sticker with white offset and the gray canvas workspace background? If so you could make a gray rectangle and drop it behind your sticker design and group the sticker and rectangle together. Then File> Export PNG Image and set the Export Area to Selection. Hope this helps!
My linked offset is locked and I can't unlock it. I have windows 11, and Inkscape 1.2
My square is blank with no outline. When I attempt to fill nothing happens. I followed everything exactly. Are there other settings I should do ahead this video?
It could be an opacity issue. When you have your square selected, what do you see on the Fill tab when the Fill and Stroke menu is open? Towards the bottom of the menu, you'll have an opacity slider. Check to see what color your Fill is set to and make sure it's not transparent. Hole this helps!
@@IronEchoDesign thank you so much for your quick reply. Let me test this. Would that also be why when I go to fill nothing is onto of my image? I am using the transparent bg png part of your video.
Hi Rick,I'm a new cricut user and have been learning a lot from your tutorials.
I've been having an inkscape issue of late where everytime I attempt to use fonts,when I click on the select button to expandthe programme crashes....every single time. I have windows 10 and inskcape version 1.1.
It's become very frustrating and so I uninstalled inkscape for the 3rd time this morning,and am thinking I may have to give up on it....that is unless you have any suggestions.
Also why is it that everytime i try to scroll through to select a font,all the little icons disappear. Yeah...I'm a total novice. Thnx for any suggestions.
Thanks! And I too get that bug about the font icons disappearing when I scroll through the list! It's so common that I instinctively click on the font list and immediately click off, and then click back on it. That usually fixes it. No idea why. As for the crashing, do you think there is a rogue font that may have been installed? I have had problems with some downloaded fonts that didn't play well in Inkscape. I later learned that some "homemade" fonts people put on the free font sites may look cool, but they're not formatted properly. That would be my guess. Hope you keep up Inkscape- it's a great tool!
@@IronEchoDesign Thank you so much for the feedback. I do have hundreds of fonts downloaded,but it doesn't matter which font I choose it crashes. I have no issue creating svgs etc, only happens when I try using my fonts.
I may reinstall in a couple if days as I was truly enjoying using it as opposed to cricut design space. Thanks again so much and keep the tutorials coming.
Happy New Year 🤗
Will do! Thanks, and you too!!
@@IronEchoDesign 🤗🤗
This happens because you have many many fonts. It happens to me too, it’s impossible to open fonts from the left menu. Inkscape crashes and shuts down immediately. So after I type my text I go to text top menu then I select fonts and from the font dialogue I scroll to find the font I want with preview. Sadly no other solution, I chat with Inkscape support regarding this issue
I tried the tiled clone design. It makes the clones, but stacked on each other and all the same size
I think this video was made with an older version of Inkscape. If they are stacked but all the same size, then double check the scale setting. Should have a value in there. If it’s blank all the clones will be the same size. Hope this helps!
@@IronEchoDesign in layers I highlight a clone and it selects the part then I zoom out to find the selection. It acts like there is a setting somewhere, but I have been looking for 2 days
@@IronEchoDesign Thanks for replying. If I make any change to scale (after resetting) they go somewhere? I've been making one change at time and can only get a few (less than 3) wanted results. Anything with rotation and they disappear
Something I realized, the layers show there made, but nowhere to be found
Do you mean how to view the layers menu? In the top menu, click on the icon that looks like a stack of 3 floating papers. It will show you everything on the canvas.