This is why I provided my own files to you to use for practice. It does not matter if it’s for personal use or commercial use. All other images are subject to copyright or trademark and you would need to research the image itself to find out if you can legally use it. If an image is in public domain, then it is free to use. They have an owner and obtaining the rights to use the images is your responsibility. Just because you can download images from the internet, does not give you the rights to trace and use those designs. Now, this is the one that most users do not want to hear and many may stop reading here, but it is just an important as all the rest. Let’s Explore v4 – Edit Points Ownership & Rights Check out more information on Edit Points and how they can help you in your Silhouette creations HERE Working with Edit Points is a great tool to have in your tool box. Red cut lines are around the outer edge of the png file. The easiest thing to do is to turn it off under the Preference > Import tab.īut, for this tutorial, it should work for all users if you are in v4.4.

If you have experienced either one of these when opening png files, it could be because of Autotrace. These included png files opening up larger than the actual design size and because of this being very data heavy so they take longer to process or can crash the software. It has been improved and in later versions there are different “bugs”.

In early versions of v4.4, the software could crash when a png file was opened as it was too data heavy. Now, the first thing to note about this feature is that there are still some “bugs” in it.

This is a feature that will automatically trace any transparent png file that is opened. 2 Ways to Trace a PNG file in Silhouette Studio Autotrace FeatureĪutotrace is a new feature introduced in the v4.4 software starting in v4.4.247.

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