Place on your pixscan mat and take a photo with your phone or camera.
How to load pixscan mat into cameo.
We signed our names on the one hand.
Camera calibration can be tricky and for unknown reasons.
Any material placed on the mat can be imported into silhouette studio via scanner or camera and then have cut lines assigned through tracing drawing tools or opening designs.
Now the rest of the steps are good old fashion craft skills for the most part.
The pixscan mat comes with its own registration marks which allows it to use the silhouette s optical scanner to find the right place to cut.
On the original cameo the marking is the same color as the base of the machine grey but it is blue on the cameo 2 and cameo 3.
Cardstock or white stick paper.
Why calibrate my camera.
It is simple and easy to use and the possibilities are endless as to what kinds of creations you can make using the pixscan mat.
Let s work together to solve the camera calibration mysteries including creating a library of successful test cards from many different camera types.
Canning mason jar labels download the set i created here step one.
Your machine will roll your mat into the cutting area.
When loading the mat into your cameo the left edge of the mat should be aligned with the alignment marking on the far left of the machine.
Make sure the arrow on the top of the mat is pointing into the machine.
I originally tried to photograph it and import it into the cameo software using the pixscan button located in the toolbar toward the top left actually third button in on the left but i soon realized that i needed to calibrate the camera i was.
Use the blue line on the left hand side of your machine as a guide to align your mat.
Learn how to use the silhouette pixscan mat with this tutorial.
Click send to silhouette.
I just purchased and received the new pixscan mat from silhouette to use in my cameo machine.
Using a pixscan mat can be so advantageous but sometimes completing that camera calibration can be frustrating.
Use the standard photo size not square.
Using the silhouette pixscan mat.
Print the labels and trim down to about an 8 10 size.
Use any graphic any image or even your and load it to your silhouette studio software.
Select load cut mat from the display.