select line styles to create dashed scoring or stitching lines for cutting or drawing paste text from outside Silhouette Studio into a text box use the Pixscan mat to position cuts with respect to the page save files for cutting directly to the Cameo 2/3 with a USB stick or Cameo 1/SD to an SD card save files to your hard drive or to the Silhouette library print, or print and cut your designs in high resolution layout design in WYSIWYG format for cutting adjust knife and eraser tool to open or closed results adjust image brightness, contrast, hue, etc. adjust the scale, angle and position of pattern or image fills fill objects with your own patterns or images via drag and drop or cropping

fill objects with colors, gradients, or patterns copy color from one object/image to another object print designs on your printer and cut them out with the Silhouette ( see this post for details) (Additional Win and Mac specific formats can be used see my file format cheat sheet for full details) autotrace your own JPG, PNG, TIF, BMP, PSD, GIF images to create cut files ( check out my Tracing without Tears series for details) open STUDIO, DXF and GSD files (no tracing) wrap text to a path ( check out this post for full details) weld, intersect, crop, divide, or subtract paths move, scale, align and replicate objects or groups use any font installed on your computer to design create designs from scratch with ellipse, rectangle, freehand line, polygon, arc and curve tools What you can do with Silhouette Studio Basic Edition (aka Free or Standard) This is my personal, unofficial list … in other words, the real lowdown including some little known secrets. and I was surprised to find a lot of incomplete and inaccurate information on the topic so I decided to post my own list. Many of you are asking what is the difference between the free Silhouette Studio and Designer Edition, etc.

(Last updated 7/16/17 though v4.1 open beta and now includes downloadable Comprehensive Silhouette Studio Features List in PDF format)

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