Thursday, August 3, 2023

Professional Editing in Silhouette Studio: Enhance Your Images with Ease!


 

Did you know that you can enhance your images professionally in Silhouette Studio for printing? 😱
Yes, you can! 

I discovered this about a month ago and it has benefitted my business so much and I thought I have to share this with you guys, my fellow Crafters and Designers!

This feature/panel can enhance your images for :
Sticker printing
Cards printing
Sublimation Printing


Here are some examples of color-enhanced images done in Silhouette Studio:
Sublimation images enhanced in Silhouette Studio

Sticker/Bookmark image enhanced in Silhouette Studio

Black Woman image enhanced in Silhouette Studio to make a Card

Amazing right!

You can do this too, it will surely work for you.

But what I have understood is that any of the versions have the ability to enhance your images, but only with the Silhouette Studio Business Edition you can save your images as png files.
You can get it here with only 1-time payment.



The enhancement panel is the 6th on the panelboard.
I am using the 3rd that looks like the sun.🔆

Color Contrast is the difference in brightness between foreground and background colors. 

Color Saturation is the intensity of color in an image. 
As the saturation increases, the colors appear to be more pure. When the saturation decreases, the colors appear to be more washed-out or pale.


Always select your image before starting with moving the Brightness, Contrast, and Saturation buttons.

Here is the video on how I enhanced my pictures.


Let me know in the comments if you will try this feature and what you will use it for.
Thank you so much for reading, be sure to subscribe to my blog for more cute ideas and tutorials.













Friday, July 21, 2023

Hello, It's Me Again

 Hello, Crafters and Designers, this is me Saskia Agrang from Poui Designs.

As you can see, I have been a blogger for 7 years. Wow!

I started blogging about crafts and foods when 2 years after I arrived in the USA.


I wanted to showcase the foods, that I cooked and how I did it.

At that time our family consisted of 4 members, now 7. How time flies! lol

After member number 5 was born, I started sewing.


My Little Pony got me inspired to sew cloth pony plushies. I did that for 5 years.

It was one of the best times in my life because I enjoyed it so much. I got to join other sewists from other states in Facebook groups and learn from them. My main sales point was eBay. There I was able to accept custom orders in my dm and payment thru Paypal. Oh, what a time! After my family expanded I started to look for something to do that would make me money while I'm busy taking care of my babies. So. I found about svg cut files.

Creating and selling SVG files, gave me the freedom that I needed at that time of my life. I started drawing African American kids' images and turned them into svg cut files for Cricut and Silhouette studio. My customer base was and is still awesome. Then I learned about something called "Sublimation"!

Sublimation has changed my life on a whole other level. The fact that you can print any image to any qualified substrate is amazing. My company,Poui Designs, carries sublimation paper, sublimation ink, and several sublimation blanks. In the meantime I started a Youtube channel, Crafting With Poui Designs.

I thought I would tell you what is going on in my life and where I have been.

I am thinking of blogging more over here with my Sublimation Crafts, but I will see how I can make that happen.

Great to catch up with you again,and bye for now . :)


Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Pony Plush Horn Tutorial

This is how I make my Pony horns.

2. I sew over  the lines. See that on mink the piles go downward. The stretch is horizontally.
3. I turn the fabric to the right side and place it on a piece of embroidery stabilizer. It  enforces the stitch unto the fabric 

4. I satin stitch (zig zag on a high density) these lines.
5. I cut off the stabilizer to be able to fold/bend the fabric to sew.



6. I fold the horn and pin it down and sew .


7.I turn it inside out and stuff it

8.I sew it   into a circle and pull on the thread to close it.
 
9. I place it on the pony head andsew it around in a circle ,until it is establish firmly and tie a not and cut it off.
 
This was a quick tutorial about how I make my pony plush horns.
Feel free to leave questions in the comment area.
Thank you. :)
 
 
 

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

I'm Back!

Hi there,

It's a long time that I have been here( sorry guys)
But I have decided to revamp the body pattern of my beanie plushies.
I will change the
1. Head pattern
2. The ears
3. the body and the hooves.
4. Embroidery design for an ITH(in the hoop) the wings

I know you guys will like it because it will be cuter and more adorable.
More ponies manes and tail patterns will be added to what I already have.

For the coming months I'll have added to the group:
Big Mac
Scootaloo
Pikamena
Twilight Sparkle

 The plushies down here have the new pattern .So stay stuned for good stuff.



Wednesday, August 31, 2016

HOW TO MAKE STURDY EARS FOR STUFFED ANIMALS

 

How to Make Sturdy Plushies Ears

 
This is how I make my pony plushies' ears sturdy so they are not flabby and hang down.
You'll need:
1. the ear you've sown out of fabric
2. A piece of fabric(make sure the ear can fit on it properly)
3. A piece of embroidery stabilizer.
 
 
 
 

Place all three items under each other like this.


Sew the stack and cut it out like this.


Turn them inside out. Your ears are ready to be sewn onto your plushie.

You can also substitute one of them with batting. If you don't want to spend money on batting, you use the stabilizer or just 2 pieces of fabric on top of each other.
With this technique, you can make your plushies' ears sturdy and cute.
 
With this technique, I made the ears of these plushies

 
 
  
    Check out my  Facebook Page for cute pony plushies.
My Etsyshop .
 
 

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Plushie Patterns

Hi there,

I wanted to make plushies patterns available for people who want to make beanie plushies and can't afford to buy them.
I have Fluttershy beanie pattern and the mane and tail here on Etsy

Derpy Hooves is also available
 And so is Applejack's pattern

I'm planning to do Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie as well
following with the hoodie pattern
Feel free to ask me questions.
Thank you.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Fillies

These are some of the Filly plushies I made :
This is Luna Filly and se is 11 inch tall without the horn. All these are being auctioned out on Ebay
 

Here is Thunderlane Colt. 11 inch tall














Professional Editing in Silhouette Studio: Enhance Your Images with Ease!

  Did you know that you can enhance your images professionally in Silhouette Studio for printing? 😱 Yes, you can!  I discovered this about ...