Questions for you Cutter Guru's... :)

**Jilliann** · 05-16-2007 12:01 PM

I see that files for cutters are in a GSD format... what type of programs read these files? I am a photographer on the main & do designing & I have been using Photoshop for several years, so this is really the only program I work in daily... I do not see a gsd format within photoshop... so is it that I will not beable to take these files into there?

also I have template of boxes & bags I have made & are saved in either .png or jpeg format... will I beable to use these with the KNK Element cutter?
thank you in advance for you help...

sorry I am so new at all this...

**Paperthreads** · 05-16-2007 12:51 PM

Jillian,

GSD file types are native to the Wishblade, CraftRobo, Silhouette machines. The KNK Element's native format is .knk

As a photographer, you deal with RASTER images, for these machines, you will instead deal with vector images. So to make a design, you have to get your picture file into your program and do autotracing....

The manual that comes with the KNK will show you how to do this. And to answer your final question, you can open that template file up in KNK, and then convert it to a vector graphic so the machine can cut it out

**Beloved K** · 05-16-2007 02:39 PM

The guru of all guru's answered you!!!!!

Lori

**Jilliann** · 05-16-2007 04:05 PM

thank you so very much... so much to learn... but what fun would life be if we didn't have to learn...

**Shirley803** · 05-16-2007 04:38 PM

But it would be nice if I knew more and had a little less to learn! I think I would still have fun!

Shirley

**Jilliann** · 05-17-2007 06:26 AM

LOL... this be true but I always think if you keep thinking there is to much to learn it will feel to much like work & not fun... so try to always make it seem like the learning part is what makes the knowning so much fun...

**petscrapper** · 05-31-2007 06:52 PM

I am slowly learning illustrator & I have to admit I get frustrated at times. That's when I stop & do something else.

I'm also still learning about my cutter but it is all slowly starting to come together and it is so worth it!

Missy

**Beloved K** · 05-31-2007 08:22 PM

Good Job!! Way to go!!

You are doing better than me Missy!!! I bought Illustrator, intalled it- and I have it and I open it from time to time - but I am still designing in WinPC (BUT SHHHHHHH, don't tell the other designers that!!! LOL)

Lori