Chapter 6
Working With Graphics
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Creative Cutter MINI
Manipulating, Scanning, and Importing Graphics
Scanning a Picture or Drawing into Pazzles Creative Cutter
1
Draw your design, preferably in black ink that is not too fine. It is helpful to draw it large;
you can scale it down later on.
2
Place the image on the scanner bed. It is best if you scan one image at a time. If you want
multiples of your drawing you can create copies within the program.
3
From the Pazzles Creative Cutter
File
menu, click
Select Source.
Your scanner model
should appear in the pop up window. (If not, make sure your scanner is hooked up to the
computer and turned on.) You may need to restart your computer with the scanner turned on.
4
Choose your scanner and click
Select
.
5
To scan, click
Acquire
. Be sure that the scanner properties are set to scan your project as a
Black and White bitmap at a resolution of 250 dpi or higher.
6
Activate the scan. Your project should appear in Pazzles Creative Cutter. When it does, use
the procedure “Importing and Vectorizing a Word or Graphic” on page 106 to vectorize it.
Importing an Image or Word Created in CorelDraw or Adobe
Illustrator
If you have created the design in Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, save it as an Adobe Illustrator
6.0 (AI) file and import into the cutting program. Be sure to convert text to lines, using vector
as the conversion mode. You will not need to vectorize the image in Pazzles Creative Cutter.
NOTE:
This type of file sometimes results in doubled-up or duplicate lines.
Converting and Vectorizing Graphics
The best graphics for vectorizing are solid (filled in) and saved in
black and white bitmap (bmp)
format at 250 dpi or higher). Refer to the sections that follow to automatically vectorize images.
Importing and Vectorizing a Word or Graphic
1
Save the image as a black and white bitmap (.bmp) file at a resolution of 250 or higher.
Lower resolution will yield unsatisfactory results. See “Converting an Image to Black and
White Before Saving as a Bitmap” on page 110.
2
Open a blank page in Pazzles Creative Cutter.
3
From the
File
menu, click
Import
and then select
Image
.
4
In the
File Import
box, browse to the location where the file is saved, select it, and click
OK
.
5
With the image still on the screen, open the Pazzles Creative Cutter
Bitmap
menu.
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