You explained that all so very well and am happy the was "how to" use the AI. Telling people is one thing but showing is a completely higher level of explanation.
Thank you so much for your efforts Mandee! I hope more will come and find your videos because your videos are a gold mine and they've helped me so much. So thanks again and god bless!
Hey Mandee! Thankyou so much for your helpful videos. You are a great teacher! l was wondering where you got so good at illustrator CC. Did you attend a course? Thanks in advance! -Ariana
By the way, nice job on your channel.....Would love to see more on the circuit.....I unfortunately don't have Adobe Illustrator but have Photoshop.....Can I do the things you do on Photoshop?
Thank you! I'll definitely need to work some more Cricut tutorials in the mix. Is there anything specific you'd like to learn more about? Some of the tools are the same or work similarly in Photoshop, but Illustrator is designed to create vector based graphics whereas Photoshop is raster (pixels).
Would love to see that design cut out on Cricut...Hey Mandee....maybe do a tutorial on something you create on Illustrator and how you would transfer the design onto Cricut and but....maybe for a card or to make a T-Shirt...would be awesome!!! Thanks...You explain things very well!! I think I just found my creative guru!!! lol!
Thanks so much for the tutorial! It was the best one I have found so far using the symbol option. I am wanting to take the mandala and make it a cut file but I am having a hard time knowing what to do when I am done creating it. When I go to outline mode it just shows the lines of my paths. I don't know how to make it see the stroke weight as thicker so that it would be separate areas that would be cut for the shape and parts that would be weeded out. I am using CS4 so I don't know if that is the reason. Any suggestions?
If you'd like to prepare your mandala to use as a cut file, here is one way you can do it: (1) Select all of your mandala "symbols", (2) Go to your Symbol window and click "Break Link to Symbol", (3) With your separated sections still selected, go to Object>Path>Outline Stroke, (4) Select just your mandala pattern using the Magic Wand Tool, and go to Pathfinder>Unite/Add. Hope that makes sense and helps you prepare your beautiful mandala to cut. :)
That worked perfectly! Thank you! I have a few other designs I have made that I am wanting to do the same thing with but they aren't working the same. It is basically another type of Mandala where I do a repeating design rotated and then the parts that overlap are cut out of the other parts using exclude. Once I go back and do steps 3 and 4 it doesn't do anything. I don't know if it is from the excluding step or something else. Thanks!
It's hard to say without being able to see the design, but you'll need to do whatever you can to try and make the design into a single compound path in order for it to be ready to cut. This is usually done by using Pathfinder>Unite/Add (for objects that overlap) AND/OR Object>Compound Path>Make.
How did you put this shape in layers. how you hide the back layer but when I am doing mine its not making different layers it is putting it all into one layer...
Hi Megan! Are you in Adobe Illustrator? If so, you can add layers through the "Layers" panel. Otherwise, Illustrator automatically creates a new sub-layer for each object you create.
Hi Dannielle! Unfortunately, I'm not exactly sure what you mean. That sounds like what the program is suppose to do when you press divide. Then, if you'd like to separate the shapes you'll just need to select them and go to Object>Ungroup.
In your video it separates all yours into separate triangle when you hit divide. Mine divides but puts multiple triangles together. I did this video and when I hit divide it only shows 4 sections and not all the different triangles
I am doing this in inkscape and for some reason when I do the division it disappears...any suggestions on what can be causing this or is there a step I am missing.
Finally a fantastic mandela tutorial. THANK YOU!!!
Work perfectly! Simple e fast, I'm loving creating mandalas
You explained that all so very well and am happy the was "how to" use the AI. Telling people is one thing but showing is a completely higher level of explanation.
Awesome tutorial . so easy to follow. Loved it
OMG Thank you so much for this tutorial! You make looks so easy! It's fantastically amazing.
I would love to see this cut on the Cricut machine......it looks so beautiful! I don't know if I'm confident enough to try! Thanks Mandee!
I love your tutorial. it helped me a lot. thank you! i love your website too
Thanks! I'm glad you found it useful! ^_^
Thank you so much for your efforts Mandee! I hope more will come and find your videos because your videos are a gold mine and they've helped me so much.
So thanks again and god bless!
Thanks so much! That makes me very happy to hear. ^_^
Amazinggggg ❤️ very helpful!! Thankyou for sharing ❤️
Very helpful and easy tutorial. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge! :D
Thank you! Amazing pattern and tutorial!
Nice method. Good explanation!
Thanks Edward!
Hey Mandee! Thankyou so much for your helpful videos. You are a great teacher! l was wondering where you got so good at illustrator CC. Did you attend a course? Thanks in advance! -Ariana
Super helpful! Thank you so much!
Awesome . . . happy......
This is so cool!! :D I gotta try this!!!
This is so cool! Thank you
Have you heard of the Mirror Me Plug in? You might find it helpful.
once grouped you can use the transform each to set a rotation point, how many copies, and what offset angle for each. Same diff in the end.
So cool!
Nice Mandee!
This was so helpful!
so fun. thanks mandee! :)
Make a video makinfg symbols for mandalas, thanks for this mandala video
By the way, nice job on your channel.....Would love to see more on the circuit.....I unfortunately don't have Adobe Illustrator but have Photoshop.....Can I do the things you do on Photoshop?
Thank you! I'll definitely need to work some more Cricut tutorials in the mix. Is there anything specific you'd like to learn more about?
Some of the tools are the same or work similarly in Photoshop, but Illustrator is designed to create vector based graphics whereas Photoshop is raster (pixels).
Can I do what you did on Illustrator, on Photoshop? (you forgot to answer!:))
Would love to see that design cut out on Cricut...Hey Mandee....maybe do a tutorial on something you create on Illustrator and how you would transfer the design onto Cricut and but....maybe for a card or to make a T-Shirt...would be awesome!!! Thanks...You explain things very well!! I think I just found my creative guru!!! lol!
No, the tools I used in this particular tutorial aren't found in Photoshop unfortunately.
Thanks for this, it is Freaken Awesome:-)
AWESOME!! TFS
Thanks so much for the tutorial! It was the best one I have found so far using the symbol option. I am wanting to take the mandala and make it a cut file but I am having a hard time knowing what to do when I am done creating it. When I go to outline mode it just shows the lines of my paths. I don't know how to make it see the stroke weight as thicker so that it would be separate areas that would be cut for the shape and parts that would be weeded out. I am using CS4 so I don't know if that is the reason. Any suggestions?
If you'd like to prepare your mandala to use as a cut file, here is one way you can do it: (1) Select all of your mandala "symbols", (2) Go to your Symbol window and click "Break Link to Symbol", (3) With your separated sections still selected, go to Object>Path>Outline Stroke, (4) Select just your mandala pattern using the Magic Wand Tool, and go to Pathfinder>Unite/Add. Hope that makes sense and helps you prepare your beautiful mandala to cut. :)
That worked perfectly! Thank you! I have a few other designs I have made that I am wanting to do the same thing with but they aren't working the same. It is basically another type of Mandala where I do a repeating design rotated and then the parts that overlap are cut out of the other parts using exclude. Once I go back and do steps 3 and 4 it doesn't do anything. I don't know if it is from the excluding step or something else. Thanks!
It's hard to say without being able to see the design, but you'll need to do whatever you can to try and make the design into a single compound path in order for it to be ready to cut. This is usually done by using Pathfinder>Unite/Add (for objects that overlap) AND/OR Object>Compound Path>Make.
Im trying to do this and have had issue after issue. When I ungroup, it is keeping 2 triangles together or one and a side of another
How did you put this shape in layers. how you hide the back layer but when I am doing mine its not making different layers it is putting it all into one layer...
Hi Megan! Are you in Adobe Illustrator? If so, you can add layers through the "Layers" panel. Otherwise, Illustrator automatically creates a new sub-layer for each object you create.
First, what program are you in.
Second, can this be done in gimp.
All of my tutorials are based in Adobe Illustrator. I have never heard of Gimp, so I really can't speak to it's capabilities.
Can you please help me mandee? I am trying to do this, but every time i do the divide it keeps multiple triangles together
Hi Dannielle! Unfortunately, I'm not exactly sure what you mean. That sounds like what the program is suppose to do when you press divide. Then, if you'd like to separate the shapes you'll just need to select them and go to Object>Ungroup.
In your video it separates all yours into separate triangle when you hit divide. Mine divides but puts multiple triangles together. I did this video and when I hit divide it only shows 4 sections and not all the different triangles
Thank you! :)
nice wark
I am doing this in inkscape and for some reason when I do the division it disappears...any suggestions on what can be causing this or is there a step I am missing.
Hi Megan! I'm using Adobe Illustrator in this tutorial. I've never used Inkscape before, so I don't think I'll be much help in that department-sorry!
Oh its no problem I can still use sort of the same steps as you but I think it might be easier if I just download illustrator...lol
you are so cute 😍
fucking brilliant
can you speak louder next time I could barely hear you.
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