Cricut Terms (Design Space)

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Across
  1. 4. tool keeps images together on your Canvas. It allows you to move and manipulate multiple images at once. It doesn’t, however, change how images are laid out on your mats.
  2. 9. refers to where on your Canvas an image is located. If you upload an image and don’t see it on your canvas but you see it in the Layers Panel, try changing the position to X=0 / Y=0 and it will move the image to the top left of your Canvas.
  3. 10. to Make Projects pre-designed by Cricut’s designers to allow you to be able to skip the designing part of a project and get right to the making.
  4. 12. will always be your best bet for clean, precise cutting (versus JPG and PNG files).
  5. 13. tool allows you to cut out a shape from a larger shape, create interesting shapes not found in the basic shapes tool, and trim unwanted parts of shapes.
  6. 14. tool lets you quickly and easily change the colors in your project, through dragging and dropping.
  7. 16. takes more than one shape and turns them into a single shape. This is especially important when working with script fonts.
  8. 17. Any file that you can cut on a Cricut. Most often this is referring to an SVG file type (see SVG).
  9. 20. Your workspace in Cricut Design Space where you make your projects.
  10. 26. a type of image. It is created with pixels.
  11. 27. helps you organize the images on your Canvas. Think of it as a physical desk—items in the “back” are under the items in the “front.” You can use this tool to change how things are arranged on your Canvas.
  12. 28. might also be called a cursive or calligraphic font, is one where the tails of the letters overlap.
  13. 31. refers to the dimensions of your image (or group of images) on your Canvas.
  14. 32. spinning it left or right.
  15. 33. used to size your images properly.
Down
  1. 1. any font that you have on your device. These could have been fonts that came with your device or ones you have downloaded or purchased somewhere on the internet.
  2. 2. separates a group of images into individual layers. You may need to ungroup more than once, depending on how a file is created. If you are using uploaded images, you will most likely need to ungroup your images to manipulate each piece individually.
  3. 3. designed to make it easy to fold cardstock and paper.
  4. 5. tool mirrors an image on the X or Y axis.
  5. 6. the “treatment” of your image. Depending on the image, you may be able to cut, draw, score, engrave, deboss, wavy cut, or perforate the image.
  6. 7. type of image. It is created with pixels and often have a transparent background.
  7. 8. tool allows you to curve text from a simple arc all the way into a circle. This tool only works on desktop, not mobile devices.
  8. 11. refers to the color of your image. It can be a solid color, or a pattern.
  9. 14. allows you to delete a part of a single image.
  10. 15. is used to keep your images in the same arrangement on your mat as on your canvas, and to keep writing/scoring lines in the correct place when you go to make your project.
  11. 18. the general term for anything that exists on your Canvas.
  12. 19. tool allows you to insert one of ten shapes: square, circle, triangle, diamond, pentagon, hexagon, star, octagon, heart, score line.
  13. 21. is used to line up the different images you have on your canvas, so that images in your project are lined up or spaced perfectly.
  14. 22. This will ensure that your HTV design will be the correct when you go to adhere it to your substrate.
  15. 23. Each image on your Canvas.
  16. 24. any words you have typed into Cricut Design Space using the Text tool. Note that an image with words that you’ve inserted from the Image search will not appear as text—basically those words are pictures and no longer text.
  17. 25. takes cut images and “flattens” them together to create a Print then Cut image.
  18. 29. created by Cricut designers and are native to Cricut Design Space (meaning you cannot use them outside the software).
  19. 30. then Cut feature for Cricut Maker and Cricut Explore that allows you to create a flattened (see Flatten) image and print it on your home computer. Then your Cricut will cut around the edge.