How to Create SVGs to Sell on Etsy Part 1: Inkscape Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 2 вер 2021
- Hey everyone! Today I am going thru all the steps to create an svg, or digital file to use for Cricut, Silhouette, and other cutting machines. This is part one in a two-part series on How To Create and Sell SVGs on Etsy. I use svgs everyday to create the signs, stickers, and decals I make and sell. I am in the process of opening up an svg, or digital art, shop on Etsy, so I thought you guys might be interested to see the process, and how to open your own shop!
In today's Part 1 video, I will show you how I create SVG and PNG files to sell. I use Inkscape in this video to create these files. If you are not familiar with Inkscape, you can download it free online. I have some other tutorials on Inkscape here: • Tutorials .
Hope you all enjoy creating and practicing making svgs. I will post Part 2: How To Open an Etsy Shop / Selling SVGs on Monday so look for that video!!! - Навчання та стиль
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This is the 7th video I've watch after searching the topic and the frist one that actually helped me. Thank you so much!
Thank you. This has been the most useful video by far!
This is exactly what I needed! Thank you so much! Trying to teach myself Inkscape has been a chore. I would love more videos from you explaining how you use your Inkscape to create SVGs.
Hi I'm so glad this helped!! Will definitely do some more Inkscape videos!
Thank you Christy!!! This is exactly what I needed to know! I was wanting to make my own personalized file and had no clue where to start! You’re awesome!
Aw I'm so glad this helped you!!🥰
I love how calm you teach and how detailed your demo is. Subbed!
Awesome thank you!
Excellent, thank you so much. I appreciate it x
This is so neat! Was making decals today using svg’s. Definitely gonna give this a try. Thank you!
Thank you!!
Thank you for all your tutorials 💗. I am a beginner in cricut and I have been watching all your videos to learn everything you do. Thank you so much 💓 💗
Aw I'm so glad these are helpful!!
I FIGURED IT OUT!!! LOL When you said to do path and object to path and that it turns it into a vector, that is what worked for me!! Thank you! Then you save it as a PLAIN SVG!! then go to your Cricut and upload the file! Make sure the file is not too large. I had to adjust my size before I saved it.
Awesome I'm glad it worked!!
Wonderful tutorial and great explanations! So many YT videos only talk about tracing bitmaps in Inkscape or just all the things the program can do. That's fine, but knowing the few "final" steps to prepare the SVG for DesignSpace is exactly what I needed! Thanks so much. Happy to be a new subscriber.
I'm so glad this was helpful! Thank you!
Thanks so much for this!
Thank you for all your tutorials!
You're so welcome!
Young lady, you are some kinda awesome. Thank you for your instruction.
You are so welcome thank you!!
I just came across your channel I’m missing this is what I’m looking for to start making my own SVG files and selling them as a part-time hobby thank you for showing us up at eight
So glad to help!!
So helpful, thank you!
I'm so glad!!🥰
Awesome tutorial! TFS!!
Thank you!
Well done video. I'm gonna have to watch it again though. Your file looks very professional.
Thank you hope it was helpful!!
Great tutorial Christy. The only thing I know how to do in Inkscape is trace bmp. This was a little complicated for a beginners but I’m going to be able to follow it. Thanks Christy
You're welcome, I hoped it wouldn't be too much for beginners, the bezier tool was a little intimidating for me at first, but once you do it a few times you get a feel for it. I will try and post some more tutorials about it for beginners.
Awesome video! Super helpful! I have one question how can I make it so that the sizing is all the same? So when a customer downloads the files and upload them to design space it’s already the size they will need it and just can make it. Thank you!
OMG thank you!!!
You're welcome!!!
I am really struggling learning how to do this ink scape ugh. I have to get out a notebook and right down every step you do lol. Thanks for taking the time to show us.
Oh you will get it it took me some time too! I'm so glad to help!!
You are speaking my accent!!! From one southern girl to another, I love this video! Thanks so much for sharing! Do you use Inkscape for all of your SVG designs or do you use other design software as well?
Love this tutorial it was so easy to follow and showed me a lot of things I didn’t know. I am stumped however though because no matter what I do it still says text elements are not supported when uploaded to Cricut. I have made the text a path, ungrouped it, unionized the text, cut off all of the strokes…. Nothing seems to work!
I have been wanting to learn how to use Inkscape for so long but it has always looked intimidating. You did a great job at explaining everything. When you make this specific SVG with the different colors, does it automatically save each one of them as a separate layer so it can be cut the same as the image? Or will this make one singular color cut file?
Christy, found this very helpful, as I, like most, are struggling to understand Inkscape and working with svgs. I would like to also offer dxf and eps formats. Heard that there might be issues especially for the Silhouette Basic users. Can you share how you would Export in these formats as well? I feel that my svg design knowledge is so limited that I might not be considering something when trying to save and not knowing if the file would open correctly for the user. Thanks so much for all your informative tuts.
How can I take a design I've bought and add letter or change thing's
im confused what category listing product for selling svg file
thanks
Hi Christy,
I have made digital products, but not SVG's. Is there a specific size to make them for different products? For example, do I need to make designs of different sizes for t-shirts vs signs etc.? I am thinking that because SVG's are scalable, creating them the same size for any product is fine because the customer will scale them to their own desired size. Is that correct?
came across your tutorial and love it but when using that tracing tool how do you get smooth lines? Mine when tracing is always choppy
Hi! At the top of the screen under "File" you will see "Mode:". Beside that there are some icons..the first one is an arc with dots on it. This is regular mode that makes straight lines between clicks. The second one looks like a spiral and that creates a spiral path. The third one looks like an arc inside two lines that meet at a corner which creates a Bspline path. That is the mode I use to create the smooth lines. You can try these out to see how each one looks to get a better idea. Hope that helps!
Only thing I’m struggling with, is how are you selecting all of the little highlights? Before joining them together? When I try it does it separately and when I try to untion them they are not joined together
GREAT tutorial ! The best I've found so far. Question - how do I get the font styles to show in the text drop down? I just downloaded Inkscape - do I need to log out and log back in? Thanks!
Hi! Yes once you download a font you will need to close and reopen the program for it to show up.
Hi, thank you for your great tutorial. I was wondering why you would save the image as svg and png (newbie here!) - would svg not suffice for a Cricut or other cutting machine?
Hi! Yes the svg is definitely enough for cutting machines. I just like to have another option for buyers on listings, and they can use pngs on other program that don't support svg files like Word...you can use Word to print sublimation designs and things.
Hi Christy! Great Video! Do you have one on drawing the you ipad (Like the vines in the video) I am thinking on getting a pad to draw and design with but would love an inside opinion on what works best for a pen and drawing pad, or what programs! :) Thanks!!
Hi thank you! I used Procreate on my iPad and it works so great I love it. I draw the image then export it as a png. I use the ipad pencil to draw. Procreate is about $10 one time purchase, and the iPencil is around $100 more but worth it.
Do you have a tutorial to create a tumbler using a png file for Inkscape?
When you use the bezier tool, are you holding down any buttons on the keyboard?
Hi. No I just select the bezier and click at the points..it will stay in bezier until you hit enter or right click to stop.
I know this video was posted a while ago so not sure if you will see this or not but I had a question. After I changed the text to a path and exported as an SVG, saved file, I tried it in Design Space to make sure it worked and it states that there are text elements that are not supported. Will this happen if I upload the SVG to Etsy and someone purchases it and tries to upload into Design Space?
Hi! Yes it will upload with unsupported elements for them as well. Go back to your Inkscape document and check for any images or text that are not changed to paths. Click on the nodes tool on the top left of the screen, then click on each image or element on your canvas...if you see the nodes show up then your element is a path. If no nodes appear when you click on it, you will need to change it to a path. Be sure and change any lines you draw from stroke to path,, and make sure all of the strokes are turned off in Fill and Stroke.. Also zoom out and check for any unwanted elements you may have forgot to erase before you saved. Hope that makes sense and helps!
Hi! Thank you for sharing your tutorial: I actually think I might be able to do this!! At the end of the video, I noticed the truck still had the white sections (window, trim, shine, etc) that were removed earlier in the video?? Is this a print and cut image?? Or a cut image?? Thanks so much
Hi! So glad this helped! I hope this makes sense but before I removed those windows and parts I made a copy of the original silhouette before removing the windows and things. I use the original silhouette with no cut outs, change the color to white, and place it under or behind the green truck to make the windows stand out, and the customers have a full silhouette to work with if need be. So you could use this both ways, as print then cut, and as a cut file. I should have mentioned the video lol!
Thank you so much!
When I go to type my font is extremely thick and somewhat distorted in inkscape and I can't seem to fix it... it doesn't matter what font I use
Hmmm...it sounds like some kind of setting in Inkscape is off..maybe try updating your Inkscape and see if that fixes the issue
I wish you lived close to me so you could teach me all this lol. I can only do the trace to bit map on Inkscape
Lol! You'll get the hang of it!
Would this be a good platform to make invitations? How would I make them editable on the customer side?
Hi! I haven't tried to do editable items... I will have to research!
When I start up Inkscape. There is a white paper outline on my drawing page. How can I get rid of it or can I just ignore it? I guess I am not understanding why the page is there if I'm creating a party banner for example. An I have that white paper sitting on my page. I have Inkscape 1.2.....Thanks for any help
Hi! Yes that is definitely distracting lol. You can change this by going under file, document properties, and just uncheck the box that says "show page outline". That will leave you a clean blank canvas.
Great tutorial! I get so inspired by your channel. I have figured out how to create my svg and save it, but when I upload it to Cricut, it can be "ungrouped" and edited. Am I missing something in Inkscape? How do I save my svg so that it cannot be edited by someone else?
Hi! You will want to weld your image together before saving it as an svg in Inkscape. Select the parts of the image you do not want editable, go to path, then select union. They will be welded together and uneditable in Cricut or any other cutting software. 👍
@@AppalachianHomeCo Thank you so much!!
Quick question. How did you do the pumpkins? I got the rest down but I’m struggling with the pumpkins. Thank you 😊
Hi! I think for this one I created several long ovals and placed them side by side. The end ovals I made a little thinner and shorter. Then i created an offset around the middle ovals. I used the offset to slice out that space between the ovals. If is hard to explain in words lol I hope that makes sense!
I will try and inkscape and try this how can we watermark the svg and also even though we are making our own it's from a pic from the net is that copy write allowed
Hi! Usually pics from the web do not allow to be copied to use for selling items. Check to see which site they are from...sometimes you can find royalty free images that you can use for designs on your products. Also, to watermark the image I place my logo over the image in several different places and bring down the opacity of the logo to around 10-20 percent to make it less visible. I usually do that in Inkscape or Canva.
@@AppalachianHomeCo ty
Thank you for this! Question- if I use inkscape I dont have to worry about "stealing" fonts? That is my concern with all these apps!
Hi I'm glad this was helpful! If fonts are already installed on your computer they should be fine to use...if you purchase other fonts from Etsy or Creative Market they usually come with a license too. Just be wary of downloading free fonts then using them in the designs you sell.
I have a question about Esty i mainly do crochet and knit items I'm also learning Cricut and now svgs should i have a different shop for Cricut items and svgs or could i sell everything in the one shop.
Hi! It depends...if you have a ton of svgs then I would open a new shop just for them. If you only have several svgs to go along with some of the items you sell I think selling them together is a great idea.
@@AppalachianHomeCo thinks for right now I don't have many of anything just trying to get started
What version is your Inkscape because it is totally different than what is offered for download?
Hi! The program will look a lot different if you are using iMac. And yes I think mine was an older version in this video, I can't remember the numbers, 1.2 maybe?
Your Inkscape looks totally different. the icons on the side of yours is much bigger. How do I change that on mine? Mine are so small and my eyesight is terrible.
Hi! I'm not sure how to change the icons but there is a channel, Logos by Nick, that does show you how to change icons and the look of your screen on Inkscape if you want to search him up.
What is the best way to categorize SVG files on Etsy?
What program are you using? Ink space?
Hi! I am using Inkscape. You can download it free online.
i downloaded inkscape and im trying this and my truck looks so weird'
Hi! You may need to adjust the bezier to curves...there are some menu options near the top of the screen that look like lines, perpendicular lines, circles, and zigzag lines. Try different options when drawing to get the feel of how each one works. Hope that helps!
@@AppalachianHomeCo i am trying again the truck still dont look right so i am just making text but the export png is different and it dont give me the option for the checkered board bg and also which dfx file would i use 12 or 14 if i saved it in that format
Christy I tried to download this Inkscape. Is it for free or do we have to pay for it?
It is totally free. You just need to select the right version when downloading either for Mac or pc (laptop).
Way too hard to follow. The bezier tool you mention is not even called a bezier tool - it's actually labeled Pen tool. Then you go to the top and say "I chose this option" without telling us which option you chose. I could not see what you chose because the title of the video was over your selection. I had to keep stopping the video and zooming in to try and figure out what you were talking about. Nope.
Ok I will remember that next time sorry!