Play around and adjust to it until you satisfy. Removing white part from a design like this can be time consuming, so let’s just remove it all together while you can.Īfter removing the white, let adjust thickness by adjusting Threshold. If you don’t check this, shapes will be created all of the while area, which Cricut will recognize it and cut it if they are not removed. Then, go to down here and check “Ignore White." With this, you can start tweaking your design.įirst, hit this little arrow next to “ advance”. Then, you can already see how the photo being simplified.īy doing this, you will get this little window pop-up. While selecting the photo, go to Object > File trace > then hit Make. Once you successfully uploaded the photo, scale it down to the size to fit the art board. You can simply double click the photo, open it, then go toĪdobe Illustrator won’t allow HEIC to be uploaded on its art board, so all you have to do is to export it as JPEG. IF you notice your photo have extension of HEIC, then don’t panic! So send the photo over to your computer, then open illustrator.Ĭreate a file with 300x300 px, then hit Create.Ĭlick and drag the jpg file directly on top of the white blank space, this will add the photo onto the file you just created. I normally try to introduce SVG making technique without using expensive software like adobe illustrator, but this time I’d have to use it.īut it offers 7 day free trial, so sign up and cancel the subscription before the trial ends. Now it’s time to convert it into SVG file. When you are satisfied, go ahead and save it. Your goal is to set up this photo as a rough draft of your SVG cut file. So after changing the setting and it doesn’t look right, go back and play around each levels. Here’s the tricky part though: just because this setting worked on my photo that I am working with, this exact setting might not work well with your photo. Then, hit this nozzle icon to switch to manual editing mode. Then, go to the filter section and go all the way to the last filter, NOIR. Ok, let’s open your iPhone, go to the image you are going to use, then hit Edit. In this tutorial I am using iPhone, but similar photo editing tool should be available on any other mobile devices, so let me know if you are android or Samsung user if it worked! My old tutorial showed how to edit with Photoshop,īut since then I found out that for this simple editing, iPhone would just do its job! If you just simply take the original color photo on Cricut and try to convert it to cut file, unfortunately it won’t work for many reasons. So before you convert this photo into SVG, you want to edit this photo to high-contrasted black and white. Not only that makes clear and easy photo to work with, you will also save time editing and weeding it.Īnd take a photo under the natural light.įor those of you who are scrolling the photo album, try to choose a photo with white or lighter background with close-up shot.įor obvious reasons, you will have hard time editing and converting with detailed and dark images.įor this tutorial, I found a perfect photo of my son, so let’s get into second step: editing photo. Ok, without a further due, let’s just dive in!įor those of you who are trying to take a photo after this tutorial to use it for your project, then I recommend you to have white background during the shooting session. Since photo editing part can be now done by your mobile devices. In the old tutorial, I used both Photoshop and Illustrator.īut In this tutorial, I am only going to use Illustrator, In this updated version of tutorial, I will explain how you can turn portrait photo into SVG & DXF cut file. Hi this is Saori from Caluya Design, welcome back!īack in 2018, I made one of my first YouTube videos to show how to turn portfolio photo into SVG cut file.īut hey, I had no idea what I was doing and really hard to learn anything out of it.ĭespite though, it went viral, so I thought why not make the update version. LINK: FREE 7-Day Adobe Illustrator How To Turn Portrait Into SVG & DXF Cut File YouTube Video Tutorial with full caption: Learn how to turn portrait photo into cut file!
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