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Decided to treat myself to one of these. Oh my, how many photos does one need to take to calibrate. Seems like i been doing it for hours. keeps saying retake making sure dots are aligned and bright enough. I have a 100 watt daylight bulb and flash on!
Anyone any ideas please
Maureen x
should add first time i used it i emailed my photo to my laptop. i asked pixscan to import it which it did. I set the cut lines and proceeded to cut. It did cut the shape i wanted but about an inch above the actual shape. So i thought maybe cause i needed to callibrate. I am using an iphone5, which on further reading may not need callibrating. i didnt move anything on the mat after i took the photo, just loaded it to cut. puzzled as it obviously did everything i wanted except the cut was way out
Just found this online!?
If you use Gmail to email, be aware that it may strip the EXIF data from the photo of dots, which can cause problems.
Not been brave enough to use mine yet.
Hi, I had bother with mine as well, the way I got round it was to scan it in, it was a decoupage sheet I wanted to cut out. I don't know if that helps , I ended up doing it that way because i couldn't do it with my phone either.
haha
I was on the verge of looking at a scan and cut but decided to go the pixscan way, as i am happy with my portrait.
I buckled in the end and did a print and cut. I get perfect results everytime
Not tried the scanner yet, cause i would have to put half in and then come downstairs and scan half and go up again to do other half. Laptop downstairs printer and scanner upstairs.
I have emailed silhouette, see what they come up with.
When you take a photo of your dots
1) put the paper on a dark surface and use a lot of light
2)take the photo at roughly the distance you would use to photograph what would be on the mat
3)You do not need to take the whole sheet of paper - justfill your screen with clear dots
4) When photographing your pixscan mat, make sure you have the whole mat in your viewfinder, if you miss a bit off it will fail. It wont mater whatelse you have on the desk. It also helps if there's a good contrast behind the mat.
Hope that helps. When it works, it's brilliant.
Recieved this back. I am working through the video. Seems easy to follow.
Thank you for contacting us. My name is Heather and I will be helping you with your questions or concerns.
It sounds like you have questions about using Pixscan with your Portrait. I am sorry about any frustration this may have caused!
This is most commonly caused by the image being imported into the software. The photo should be retaken with the following items checked, and corrected if necessary, in order to correct this concern:
The mat is on a flat surface
No zoom is used
Lighting is even
The entire mat is not clearly visible in the image
The PixScan™ mat is clean and flat (no bent corners or edges)
The PixScan™ mat covers at least 30% of the image area
The intended image on the mat is contained within the black cut border
Please also ensure the steps to import the image are being completed correctly. These steps can be found here,
http://www.silhouetteamerica.com/faq...xscan-overview
The following video class is fantastic for learning all about Pixscan: http://www.silhouette101.com/archive...can-like-a-pro
If you have any questions about Pixscan after view that class, please let us know!
Thank you,
Heather U.
Silhouette Support Team
thank you grannyscrap, i took about 27 photos and it wouldnt accept any. lighting excellent, dots aligned etc. am wondering if my phone is already in the software as was mentioned. Will have another go, wont let it beat me. Maybe i missed something.
The video class from silhouette was very good.
I asked silhouette if my iphone 5 was already calibrated and they confirmed. This is what she said:
Thank you for your email. You are correct, Pixscan should already be calibrated for the phone model. Please do watch that class on Pixscan, it is very helpful in narrowing down the issue.
Hope this is helpful to someone.
I hope you get it sorted. When I first started to use PixScan, it just would not work with my phone, no matter what I did but it was fine with my big camera. (I have a Samsung phone) but when I first updated the software to 4. something I tried my phone and it worked fine and has eversince (fingers crossed, lol, I haven't put the mockers on it), so who knows!
I don't think I've ever used my Pixscan mat although I did do the calibration ok with my phone but I've got a different one now and haven't tried that but print and cut isn't something I do
Thanks for that Liverbird, I watched the second link on your post, and I found it very informative, from me trying to help you, you have inadvertently helped me, so thanks for posting your reply. Grace xQuote:
Originally Posted by liverbird
Doreen, I rarely use the mat for PrintNCut, but the mat is soo useful for using smaller pieces of card. I stick them on the mat, take a photo and then drag the shapes onto the pixscan and then cut. It makes using up odd shapes and bits so much easier. I love my mat.
Didn't even think of that Sheila. A very useful tip thank youQuote:
Originally Posted by grannyscrap
Still not had time to go back and play with my pixscan yet. The print and cut with the ordinary mat is really good and accurate.
Pleased the video helped cattiegracie. Thats a good idea grannyscrap nor did i think of that. Thank you
You are very welcome.
Can you use it to cut around stamped images?
yesQuote:
Originally Posted by bobble21
I got it too work, didnt need to calibrate my phone as its already in the software. Very impressed I cut out frames around old xmas cards and cut quite close using outline on others. Only issue I had was when cutting out pictures by placing circles around them, they cut ever so slightly off, just on one side. Not sure why? Any ideas?
Overall I am happy with what I practiced on.
Here is my reply from silhouette, hope this all helps. (the margin of error is what I was probably seeing on some of my cuts, otherwise most were more than acceptable. I tried a variety of cuts, some actual, some with offset and some with a shape around them)
I'm not sure why it would be off by a little bit. I will give you a few tips though.
Are you on a portrait? The portraits have 3 lines and you will want to put the mat and the 3rd line farthest from the roller.
It is best to do the pixscan in well-lit room to help the sensor read the registration marks and it is best to put the image as much as possible in the center of the page.
Do note that there can be a 1/16th inch margin of error.
When using my PixScan mat the the cutting line is always slightly off so moving the trace slightly to the right it how I work around it. My print & cut is spot on.
Just had a go with some scraps as grannyscrap suggested, works a treat. Just put my shapes over the card shapes. Thank you for that tip.
Yes Neries my print and cut is perfect. Will try your suggestion as my cutline was slightly over to the left when using the pixscan. Otherwise am really pleased with it.
My pixscan was going bonkers since the update, registration markers not recognise, the docker with the badges in kept going to the left edge and acting like a woodpecker, the mat kept falling out the back and when on the odd occasion it did decide to work it was off by about 3mm to the left. Not sure if this will help you but I changed the packet size down to 500 instead of the default 1000 and I also changed the setting For the cut order sorting to "no sort”. (See picture). Now i am getting a perfect cut, no registration errors, no doing crazy things like a woodpecker and no mat falling out the back. Might be worth a try.
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