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RESOLUTION

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With a lot of people entering the Sublimation craze, there seems to be quite the misunderstanding of lack of understanding of the roll that RESOLUTION plays in in printing.

Resolution is expressed in Dots per Inch. The higher the number the higher the resolution and the clearer the print will be (up to a point – most printer print 300 dpi). So if your design is the size you want to print it, at 300 dpi, it will print the way you want it.

For the most part you can’t increase the DPI (there are some programs like the newest Photoshop which can use predictive AI to fill in some pixels and double it). If you start with a small image and enlarge it, you don’t add pixels, you stretch them out, making them larger and your picture less clear.

You can, however, shrink an image and not lose resolution. So it’s always better to start with the highest resolution possible.

The examples below use actual images for which I have purchased commercial rights.

  1. Screen Shot – looks great want to put this on a shirt. Copied it from a website and even managed to remove the background!!

The problem is the image is approx 3×3 with a resolution of 72 DPI. So I make it the 10×10 image. It still looks great on the screen.

UhOH!!! Why is my print blurry, it looks great on the screen. Because this is the actual size now. Resolution is 19 DPI after enlarging it.

Now here is the actual print after downloading from the website and I don’t even have to remove the background myself


Creative Fabrica

Making Your Own Weeding Lines

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Creating weeding line without having to invest in Silhouette Business or SCAL Pro

Weeding lines can be very useful and make your life much easier, especially when you are working with a lot of text like I did in this. Even so, it can be difficult to make sure that your weeding lines don’t cut through your text if you just draw them in.

This method shows you how to do that.

Open your Studio program (this works basically the same way in SCAL) and create your design.

If you are creating your own text, first weld it; then create a compound path. This makes it easier to work with since it’s now one object.

  1. Draw lines between your text. It doesn’t matter if they overlap your text.
  2. Select each line – its easier if you make them slightly longer than your design. Right click and make them a compound path. If you have a lot of text, move the text off the mat, select all the lines and make a compound path, and move the text back on
  3. Click your design and copy, then paste in front (short cut is CTL or CMD –F).
  4. In this picture, I turned off the fill so you can see it better. You will see the lines get darker after you paste in front.

  1. DON’T deselect anything now, but hold down your SHIFT key and also Select the lines. This groups them. You will see two bounding boxes.
  1. Open your Modify panel and select “Subtract ALL”
  1. That may take a few seconds. After that, click the top layer of your text and delete it. You will be left with this: