How to Cut a PDF File with Cricut Explore
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- čas přidán 9. 04. 2016
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Hey guys! I've got another Cricut Explore/Cricut Design Space tutorial for you today! This time I wanted to share with you how you can import PDF images into Cricut Design Space with a little bit of work. This works best with PDFs that have images with no white space intersecting the image because this process will clean up all white space around & through each image. It is best to do this with images that have bold defined borders or a gray defined border around any white space - like the daisy flowers in the PDF provided below. Let me know if you have any questions!
Additionally, I am in no way an official person to consult with copyright and the like. Please read and understand all licensing agreements that come with any digital products you may use in the design process. I am merely offering a little education and how to on crediting the digital elements you use.
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Don't forget that quilters may want to use it too! Great tutorial!
YOU are a lifesaver! Thanks for the tips. You did a great job explaining these steps!
Such a great video to follow!! Thank you for making this!
This was amazing. You rock. I have been trying to figure this out for so long! Game changer!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! Have had my Cricut for a few months but couldn't figure out how to make stickers for my Happy Planner...was ready to give up....SO thank you!!
Thank you! I needed to figure out how to change the PDF to PNG and your tutorial totally helped. I appreciate it!!
You seriously have the best tutorials! Thank you!
Thank you. I’m going to try this way. Your explanation how to do it was very simple and understandable.
Thank you so much for this tutorial!! I love planning and love using stickers in my planner, but am on a very tight budget and can’t always afford Etsy stickers. I am so thankful!!
Thank you. Best I have seen. I find cute free printable but they are in a pdf format. You have really helped me with my new Cricut.
thank you very much - really helped my to convert and then to understand how to remove the while background
If you're on a Mac, just open the PDF file in Preview, high lite the image in the side bar and export it as a png file. Very simple.
Thank you!
I tried this but it opens in adobe reader and export to PNG file was not an option?
Karen Gravatt If you’re running Windows, right click on the file and select “open in” then pick out your graphic program that can open pdf files and export to png. You can also open up your graphic program and import the pdf, and export or save to png. I believe you can use Inkscape for this. There’s also an online tool for this, maybe someone can provide a link to a free online conversion tool. Hope this helps.
Thank you so much!! This video saved my project.
It worked, thank you for sharing!
Omg. Thank you so much. I understood everything. You were so easy to follow and I totally understood everything. No more cutting with siccors. Thank you so much!
Glad it helped you out. Thank you for watching :)
Thanks for the Help!
Thank you so much for the detailed video and pointers!
Very informative.
No problem! Thank you for watching!
Thanks great info. Most helpful.
I have been looking for a way to do with with my Cricut. Directions were very clear.
This was very helpful! Thanks!
Hi Moe! I recently just purchased a Cricut, so I have been searching online for different craft projects, ideas, inspirations and so forth. I must say I have searched and searched for simple tutorials and all of your videos have been sooo beneficial! I am so excited to start crafting with this machine and I just wanted to let you know that you have been more than helpful. I love your blog as well! keep up the awesome work! Thanks -Lulu
Thank you so much! I'm so glad it helped - I started making the videos because I couldn't find the videos I wanted to watch about using my Cricut. I hope to have many, many more go up ...just need to find the time :)
Thank you for the print out.😀
loving your videos!!!! Love you! thank you for sharing!
Thank you for watching :)
Awesome! Thank you 😄 quick and to the point
glad it helped!! thanks for watching :)
Thanks so much.
You are my new best friend! Thanks, it was so helpful!
:) yay!
Thank you - very well explained. New subbie today! Julie
thanks for watching!!!
You saved my life! I had 25 photo props to cut out for a client and I have been so worried that I was going to have to hand cut all of them by hand. Ty!!!
yay! Hope it works out :)
Thank u a million
Thank you for sharing! Wish I could of asked you how to be able to use my Cricut Explore Air than Tech support!! Might not of taken me over 4 hours and 3 different techs to finally be able to cut my first dig card...
great detail videos! I don't own a cricket but I do have a Silhouette :) I just find your channel and love it! I design my stickers in CS3 and in the Silhouette program.
Awesome! CS3 is a good resource. I like to design now in Inkscape which is a free version of an Illustration program like Adobe Illustrator. Thanks for watching :)
thanks!
So clear, I can't wait to do this.
Hope it helps Thanks for watching :)
Moe Howard does this method work with the circuit craft room using the expressions? thanks
thanx
Thank you for explaining because i was about to karate chop my critcut air because the files i purchased from esty didn’t work because i didn’t know they were in PDF form
Great video! Can u please do this with a pdf doll clothes pattern for sewing, such as purchased from Etsy? How it's done on a cricut maker.
If you have a PNG file without a transparent background you can open it with Gimp and make the background transparent you can also export a PDF in gimp to a png or svg file.
(I'm a few years late to this, but...) THANK YOU!!!
Moe, Did you try opening that PDF in Inkscape? Many PDFs contain vector art that you can extract. We do this all time at work with vendor files when they wont send us the cad file
Do you know how I would just make part of an image cut? For instance, I have an elephant with an ear that I would like to stay attached to the elephant, but cut around one side of it so it kind of flips out
Loved the video, very informative. Is it possible to add an actual photo to Design Space. I have many of my Maltese dog I would like to use
Yep - just go to upload image and upload it away. If you want to crop it first you may want to edit it on your phone or on your computer before uploading. Thanks for watching :)
Thanks for the tutorial Moe. Quick question, what do you do when the actual design has white within it? when I use the magic wand to remove the white, it is also taking it out of the interior of some of the designs.
That is a bit tricky....the only think I can say to do with in Design Space is to clean up with the erasure tool rather than the magic erase. That will get you a cleaner edge. But its a bit finicky and not very precise. If you're looking to cut planner stickers there are a few other tutorials on my channel about doing that easier. Hope that helps :)
what cardstock can i use for this? plain sticker paper or u mean the cardstock with colors(plain)
Thanks for the video, it help me a lot.
Where can I find free printable images PNG or JPG to convert?
sometimes when you download the free stickers on a blog, through pinterest, or through Etsy there is a PNG or JPG included. If not you can use a website like PDF2PNG.com to change the PDF into an image to upload to Design Space. Hope that helps :)
Your video is so helpful.. Im new to this Im really a sewer...Anyway question, Do you knkw how I can create a 3d shoe I want to use them as part of a centerpiece
I do not...sorry about that!! I'm excited that this video helped you though :)
Thanks for this----Can I cut only?
I'm not sure what you mean...with the Cricut Explore you will be able to cut the images out, no problem. You can also just download the PDF and cut by hand. Hope that help.s
You need to increase your computers resolution to get a bigger display area... or try zooming out! :)
Your video was very helpful. I downloaded a sticker file that was supposed to be for the Happy Planner. I was able to print and cut but the sizes were too small. Is there anything i can do to change the size of the stickers?
If you're uploading the full 8.5 x 11 inch sheet, Design Space only has a print then cut area about 6x8 inches so it might not all fit in that area causing the stickers to be smaller. You may have to cut out each individual image from the bigger 8.5 x 11 page the upload just that sticker image.
are you able to separate each image ?
Moe it has been a year that I print and cut, I tried to erase the heading and the license but it was clean not erase, it show like piece a paper and you use eraser a big smudge Did I something wrong? Or new changes?
I would like to cut out flower petals for making the large flower displays that are so popular now. I do not want to do print then cut. Will the conversion from PDF to PNG accomplish this? I am trying to avoid hand cutting the PDF version. Hope that makes sense.
Sandy Suetta I think saving as a cut image should solve your problem.
Hello, electronics and I don't get along. I found your video from my bible Journaling group. Basically I want to take the designs we are given and instead of cutting out by hand, turn them into stickers because some are too hard to cut. I have only used my cricut machine once and had no clue how I managed to do it. I went and bought the cricut explore 2 not sure if my older model would hook up to laptop. Basically before I get even more longer winded and sound even more stupider could u tell me or point me in the direction of how to take my downloaded designs and have my cricut cut them out please. Thanks Kim.
This is what I’m trying to do also for my prayer journal
Thank you. When I search PDF2PNG I'm getting different options. Does it matter?
pdf2png.com is the one I use :)
iPad does have a larger print & cut area of 6"x9" however you cannot upload images at this point in time
+Pam Austin awesome! Thank you for answering that for me! Do you know if you can pull images that you've already uploaded into Design Space? Thanks for watching :)
+Moe Howard yes you can once they are uploaded through a PC and saved you can than access those on you iPad
So I watched this video a few times and I noticed you said if the image has white space, its more difficult to use this method. what other methods are available? I own other software Adobe Photoshop (not 100% sure how to use it) would this method work to help distinguish white from off white areas? I purchased a few printable kits on easy that I love. But they are PDF only with zero cut files.
I have a few videos on how to create a black out file to use with cricut explore to help you cut the printables from etsy - this is how I cut etsy stickers : czcams.com/video/oTCWc40X_3k/video.html&list=PLHw6-KlyViwAfbL6d0Fztmz8STH0ao2wA&index=3 and this is how I create the black out file if there isn't one - czcams.com/video/p_jSb9rm3BM/video.html Hope that helps
Moe Howard sadly it didn't come with a black out girl that was the first video I used. So then I tried this method, but it has a lot of creams that are being mistaken for white...
Ok
I am new to this and actually have a Cricut Cake machine. Can you cut a PDF using the machine I have? Thank you for any help you can give me.
If your machine supports a print then cut feature. I believe the only machines that do this are the Cricut Explore versions. Your machine has to be able to read registration marks on a sheet printed from your printer. Hope that helps.
I am a Cricut rookie, could you give me some great websites for images to upload for free? I am subscribed to the premium access. but I would like to have access to some free image files to use on my projects. Great video by the way! Thanks!!
The site that I use is FreePik - the images, for the most part, are vector images that you can open in a program like Adobe Illustrator or InkScape. This is my preferred method of obtaining images as the free clip art sites I've found don't really offer any assurance that the work isn't stolen. Another place to try is Free Pretty Things for You or The Graphics Fairy. If you Google any of those you should find access to their sites! Hope this helps!
u mean plain white cardstock right?
you can use sticker paper or cardstock. I used cardstock to make paperclips but you can also cut out the cardstock and use these as ephemera pieces. Hope that helps!
You mean, how to cut a PNG. doh!
You went way to fast could not follow
Jeanine Sivek use the pause button, like I did. Super easy tutorial.
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thank you very much - really helped my to convert and then to understand how to remove the while background