SCAL

[kimz1959]

I'm so excited to be purchasing/downloading this program this weekend. Any tips, suggestions, thoughts to make the download and use of this program as easily as possible?

Many many thank you's!!!!

[kimz1959]

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[Hiding in My Craft Room]

You will love it! You can, if you haven't already, download a free trial version to play around with until your purchase is official.. Also on this thread you can read about it: Forums at Splitcoaststampers

Lindsaymay has a blog with all kinds of free downloads.

Congrats!!

[jenndspencer]

check out svgcuts.com for some awesome free files. I have been playing around, making my own files and should be ready to share soon! Keep an eye on my blog! I LOVE scal and I hope you do too. Also, if you want to try your hand at a little designing, download inkscape for free!

[kimz1959]

do you need Inkscape to use SCAL? I've been lloking at the inkscape website and it's very intimidating.....

[jenndspencer]

No, you don't need inkscape. It does look a little intimidating. I got it and didn't use it for 2 months, but finally I decided I needed it! If you do decide to try it, there are tons of tutorials on youtube!

[suplayingwithpaper]

surecutsalotusers yahoo group hasnt got quite as much mail as scalhints Gale. There's also a beginners group which is great for people starting out.

I tend to do most of my designing in paintshop pro rather than inkscape.

[wakegrrl]

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Originally Posted by kimz1959

do you need Inkscape to use SCAL? I've been lloking at the inkscape website and it's very intimidating.....

I thot so too .. until I watched a You Tube video on how to create .svg files with inkscape. Then it became clear. I LOVE youtube for tutorials on stuff like that!

[kimz1959]

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Originally Posted by wakegrrl

I thot so too .. until I watched a You Tube video on how to create .svg files with inkscape. Then it became clear. I LOVE youtube for tutorials on stuff like that!

any particular tutorials on youtube help you the most?

[suplayingwithpaper]

http://dan99.blogspot.com/2009/01/vi...pg-to-svg.html is a pretty good jpg to svg in inkscape tutorial but with scal2 unless you intend making files to share/sale you don't need to convert to svg.

[gingerd]

subscribing....because this stuff is as clear as mud at the moment!!


Ginger

[stampin_is_fun]

subscribing too

[kimz1959]

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Originally Posted by suplayingwithpaper

http://dan99.blogspot.com/2009/01/vi...pg-to-svg.html is a pretty good jpg to svg in inkscape tutorial but with scal2 unless you intend making files to share/sale you don't need to convert to svg.

Just viewed a couple of these and thank you thank you thank for sharing this site!!!

[wakegrrl]

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Originally Posted by kimz1959

any particular tutorials on youtube help you the most?

maybe you got this already ....if not here's a good tutorial on BASIC inkscape and then importing into SCAL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50KplQAcU64

[wakegrrl]

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Originally Posted by kimz1959

any particular tutorials on youtube help you the most?

also check out this video:

SCAL 2.0 is awesome because you can trace jpg files

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZmAzNGIJ7o


this video helps explain inkscape-- shows how to convert an image in inkscape to svg etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF_XJ...eature=related