Sometimes when you're crafting in Design Space, you might have a very specific
design in mind that you wish to create, but you can't find a suitable image for
it to use. When this happens, there is something that you can do to customize
the existing images in Design Space to create something that perfectly fits
your vision, and that is by combining several images together to create
something new. Let's see how it works.
Hello and welcome to Design Space Daily,
helping you learn Cricut Design Space in short and snappy video tutorials.
On the screen I've got two images that I found in Cricut Access. I've got a horse and
an angel wing, and I'm gonna combine these together to create a kind of
Pegasus/unicorn design. The first thing to do is to get everything the same
color because that makes it easier when you're trying to put them together
to see how it's going to look. You could go into the 'color' menu at the top and make
them all the same in there, or if you've got lots of different images that are
all different colors then an easier way to do it is to go to the 'color sync' button on
the top right of your screen. Drag all of your images onto one color,
and drop, and that will make them all exactly the same color. Once you've done
that, click back to 'layers' to see your layers again because we're going to need
them. I'm gonna make the horse a little bit bigger so it's easier to see, and
also the wings. I want to add the wings to the back of the horse, so I'm
gonna need to flip them first. Go into 'flip' in the top and 'flip horizontal'.
That's a great little tool to learn, because if you find an image that is
kind of what you want but you'd rather it was facing the other way, you can flip it
really easily just with that button. You can also flip images vertically.
I'm gonna make this bigger, and now drag and drop it to position it on the horse.
You may need to rotate your images to get them showing exactly where you want them.
Now I've got my Pegasus looking good, but I want to add a nice little
unicorn horn. To do this, I'm just going to
go into 'shapes' and then 'triangle', so as well as combining images we can also
combine shapes. I need to unlock the proportions by clicking the padlock icon
and that means I can resize it to make a unicorn horn shape. Now I can just drag
that into the middle of the horse's head and it's turned into a Unicom. Let's
move it a tiny bit and rotate it to make it a bit more obvious - there we go.
Alright, so you might think that's all you need to do, however when you click
'make it' to send it to your Cricut machine, you can see it's got all of the
bits separate - it hasn't connected them all together - so cancel out of that.
We need to make them all stick together. You might be thinking that the way
to do this is by clicking all the layers and then pressing 'attach', however that's not
going to work. It will be hard to see in all the same color, so if I just
change the color you can see a bit better now. It's got the lines on it, so
what this is going to do now it's attached is, although when we click 'make
it' they're now all joined together, you can see that it's still got these cut
lines in the wings and around the triangles. It's still going to cut
that out as a full triangle, so you're going to end up with three separate
pieces and not one finished unicorn design. I'm gonna go back to here and
just undo that 'attach' - there we go - and instead, what you need to do is select
all your layers. Click one in the layers panel, press ctrl on your keyboard
and click all the others, and then instead of 'attach' we want to click 'weld'.
Be careful with weld, because once you've done it, that's fixed
forever, so if I welded it and then closed the project and opened it
again, I wouldn't be able to then just move the angel wings without the horse.
Because I've welded it, it's kind of stuck together forever, so if you think
you might want to change it at another point the easiest thing to do is to
group your layers by pressing 'group' and then click on the top of the group and
right-click and 'duplicate'. We've now got another version which I'm just gonna
hide by clicking the little eye icon, so if I ever need to change it again I've
got that original one there that isn't welded so I can make those changes.
For now, I'm gonna go into the one that's still visible and then click on 'weld'.
What that's done is join all those images together. If I change the
color, you can see that now we don't have these cut lines around the edge of the
wings or in the horn, so it's now just one solid image which is going to cut
out perfectly. You'll notice that where the wings and the
mane are joined here, there's a tiny little speckle. This can happen when you
weld and you'll start to notice little bits in the design that you didn't see
before and this is gonna be a tiny little cut that my Cricut isn't gonna be
able to do because it's just too small. If you get things like that, the way
to fix it is to click your image and then press the 'contour' button, find those
tiny little bits and then just click on them and it will remove them, so now
that's gone and this is now ready for me to cut out.
If I click make it - whoops, this is really big, I've made it too big for a Cricut to cut
- let me just make it smaller, there you go, so now you can see that it's all
ready to cut it's gonna cut beautifully all around the edge and we have now
created something brand new out of those original two images and one shape.
You can do the same thing with lots of different images to create
scenes rather than just one image. For example, I've got all of these images
which I found earlier in Cricut Access, and I'm going to arrange them together
to create a pretty scene of the wolf howling at the moon surrounded by lots
of different trees. This is really nice if you're trying to recreate
something you found online, so maybe you've seen a t-shirt with a howling
wolf and you want to make one similar but you want to have your own design
input and create it from scratch yourself - this is a great way to learn
how to do that. So I'm just gonna ungroup these so I can move everything, and then
I'll start with the rock I've got here and then drag my wolf in. Just like I
did before with positioning the wings on the horse; I'm doing the same now -
moving things about so that I'm happy with the position of how it's all
looking. You don't need to keep everything joined up, so I'm gonna keep
the moon separate and then build up the images one at a time to create my
finished scene.
All right, so I'm very nearly done - just gonna add that grass in there and - there
we go - so that was very quickly done but you can see already just how that is
going to allow you to create new designs of the images of Cricut access by
positioning them all together. We need to do exactly the same thing we did
before; we need to weld these. I'm gonna select all of my layers and then
press 'weld' down the bottom and now it's all one thing and again I've got a tiny
little speckle in that tree which I need to contour out. If you're not sure how to
use the contour tool, I've got a separate video on that so I'll link it in the
description of this one so there you can go check that out if you need a little
bit of a helping hand with the contour tool. So here is my wolf image. If I
click 'make it' - ah, I've made it too big again, I need to pay more attention!
Here we go, so you can see it's gonna cut it all as one around the edge so this is
perfect for files you'll be cutting out from card stock or if it was going to be
vinyl to go on a t-shirt all in one color. I hope this video has shown you
a little bit about how you can use the images in Design Space and Cricut Access
to create new things so that you can be more creative with your designs and
create images and scenes which perfectly fit your creative vision. Thank you
for watching this tutorial; I hope you enjoyed it. I release new Design Space
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Thank you for watching!