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Cricut Print and Cut Guides - 1 of a few

Right, let's assume you have a bunch of images, photos, nerdy pictures to signal your allegiance to FFXIV to whomsoever sees your stuff.

You need to make these into stickers if they're going to ever be visible to people outside of you brandishing your phone at them like a weapon.

And that's okay because you own a Cricut that is Print Then Cut capable and you've got time to spend figuring out how that capability actually works. I have thrown together the roughest of rough guides for you to help you get started on this process. 

Part 1 - Getting you images into Cricut DesignSpace and ready to print/cut:

(which works best, video or gif?) Part-gifs are at the bottom too, for piece-by-piece viewing!

For nice rectangles, or even headshots like the one I used (oh look, it me, hi me!) with nice, neat and relatively simple edges, the whole process is relatively straightforward.

  1. Upload image
  2. Pick image type
  3. Remove background (or remove background and then also erase some straggly it's left behind to give a neater cutting edge)
  4. Check the Cut outline looks okay (curse you straggly bit, I need to go back and annihilate you once and for all!)
  5. Select Print Then Cut
  6. Add any image details you want, tags etc.
  7. Upload!
  8. Image is ready to use!

You might run into trouble sometimes with images that don't have neat edges. you have two choices here: if it's a roughly square/rectangular/circular/other simple shape then you can use Cricut canvas shapes as a sort of underlay; or if it's a messy shape or has rough edges etc, you might need to find an image editor program to create a proper underlay.

For now, let's assume you're just using a simple shape and carry on to the next stage - getting your images on canvas, offset for nice print/cutting and then printed off for cutting after.

You can get the info on that here: Part 2.

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