In this video I'm going to cover how to save your projects in Design Space, and
why you SHOULD save them.
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Saving your projects regularly is a good habit to get in to
because it means if anything bad happens - for example you lose your internet
connection or Design Space crashes or anything like that - you're not going to
lose hours of work. If you're saving regularly it also means you can start a
design, save it, close Design Space and come back to it another time or maybe
even another day and your project is still there waiting for you. To save your
project in Design Space, click the 'Save' link in the top right. Give your project
a suitable name so that you'll easily be able to find it again. You can choose
whether to make your project public or private. If it's public it'll have the
green tick. If you want to make it so that only you can access it and nobody
else can, then untick it . If it's public it means you'll be able to share the
link to the project with somebody else, so if you wanted to share it with a
friend or a family member who also has a Cricut machine so that they can cut that
project you'd be able to do that if it's public. When you're happy with it, click
'Save' and now that has gone ahead and saved. Now, if I make a change to the
project, I can save it again by clicking 'Save' and then'Save'. If I wanted to save
it with a new file name, click 'Save As' instead and that will save that without
overwriting the original one that we saved. Sometimes when you click 'Save'
you might notice that there is no option to make the project public. If that's the
case, it probably means you've used an uploaded image in your project. Let me
show you how that works. If I click in to 'Upload' and use one of my recently
uploaded images - so this one is of my dog that I was using for a print than cut -
now, if I go to 'Save' and press 'Save as', there's no public tick box. The
reason for that is that I've used an uploaded image in my project.
Design Space doesn't know if I have the copyright to anything I upload,
so to play it safe for legal reasons if you've uploaded anything into your
project you can't save it as public.
That's to stop people from being able to share copyrighted materials through design space.
If I delete my uploaded image and then go to 'Save As' again, now I've got the
public box because there's no longer anything uploaded in here - all the images
and fonts I've used are from Cricut Access. To access your saved projects,
click 'Projects' in the left in the top drop down and change it to 'My projects'.
This will filter it to just things that you have saved - so you can see my little seal
is here. I clicked on that to get this little pop-up and then I can choose to
'Customize' or 'Make it'. If I click 'Make It', that's going to go straight to the cut
screen on Cricut where I choose the materials and send it to my Cricut to
cut. If you want to make changes then click 'Customize' instead and it will open
the project for you so that you can make changes. When you first open Design Space
you'll find a list of your projects at the top of the screen. You can scroll
through and find the one you want to make and then click it to make it.
You can also click the 'My projects' link in the top right. Remember to save your
projects regularly as you're going along. It's your way of protecting your work in
case anything goes wrong with Design Space as you're using it. It also
means that you can save your designs to access them on different devices.
Maybe you want to cut something using Design Space on your phone, but
then you also want to save it to cut from your computer. You can do that by saving, and
also you can come back to it at any point in the future and recut your
design. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up below and subscribe
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