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if you're an existing serif crafts artists user then this video will show you how to access all images to create your own digits using the digits included in software hi I'm Michele Jackson Wagner from MGM design studios I create digital craft collections and I want to show you how easy it is to access all the images and this will work for any of your crafty down lured CD ROMs or your own images anything that's a JPEG or a PNG you'll be able to make a digit from have to say at this point that this is for existing users of the craft artists software only as sadly the software is no longer available to purchase but if you do have the software and I've always wanted to make your own digits and never quite sure how to do it then we're going to explore that together so let's go and have a look at the computer once you've launched the craft artists software from the start up screen that you want to pick in a blank project scrap page 12 by 12 click OK and then just ignore of all your kits in the browser just close the browser down so we don't know had a collection at this point because we're actually gonna create one and what we do is we go up to the top toolbar here where it says tools and in that drop-down you're selecting didja kit creator so click that and then we get the creator up here which obviously is empty at the moment because we need to add to it so what we need to do is go down to this bottom corner here where it says import click import and add files and that will take us to the files on our computer so wherever you're going to wherever you've saved your downloads to or your kits to this is where this is where they'll be so we're going to use fall into autumn and this is a this is my collection and it's a 5 folder collection so that it's across 5 folders and what we need to do is find the embellishments so they're all labels I'm going to click this one open here and these are all some of the embellishments which are in the collection you click the first image and then while you hold the shift key down go down to the bottom image and click that one and it will select all of them all in one go and then click often what happen is that imports all the bitmaps and you're going to see them pop up in your screen here and you'll also see them in your tool box down the side here which is where you use them from so I know that there's some more embellishments to bring in so again import add files and we'll go back to the folders and the other embellishments are in here so we click the first one scroll down shift key click the last one it brings them all in in one go and they'll drop in at the bottom of the list so you'll see them in here the ones I've just added and if you go down this box here you'll see them there now at this point when you're making digits I suggest that you save your kits all the way through so every time you do a section serve it although it takes a bit more time it just saves frustration later on so you click Save digi kits at the bottom here and the first thing that's going to happen is this box is going to pop up now once we remedied this it won't pop up every time and it says there aren't any layouts and this is the this is what you see in your preview pane of your dizzy kit browser so it says add layouts now which we can't because we don't have any so we'll click no you can serve it and it would just have a blank preview pane for now and then you can add it later on or you can do it right now so we'll just click cancel and I'm going to click done down the bottom as did you click it creator box that's really hard to say the Digi kit creator box so we click done down here now all my collections come with a cover some it depending on who you download from away you get them the might not at this point you could create a cover you could just do a temporary cover and then change it later on so you could just bring on elements just so to remind you what's in the collection if you go away and come back to it but because I've got a cover in my collection I'll show you how to add that so you go to the photos tab which is going to be empty because this is where we add our own photographs and we click Add at the bottom again we're going to go back to the downloaded I have and in this one it says kick cover so here's the kick cover here I just click it and open it and that's in my Photos tab I'm going to drag it on to my page here it comes in an 8 by 8 but we need to make it 12 by 12 so we go over here to transform and then in this corner here is your the width and the height and you just need to link this little chin here so if you can just see on this side there's the little chain here and if you click that it will link the two boxes so it will just keep it the same aspect ratio and put 12 in the width click enter and it's made it 12 by 12 then while you down here just go to a line and center it on the page like that so that's the the layout that will be your preview in your digital so we got back to tools and back to digi kit creator and that takes us back to where we were so all your stuff still in there that we've added already and we're going to go to layouts this time and then down the bottom here where we imported before it now says add so if you click Add it will generate the layouts in your project that you've got on screen at the moment so that's the one that we've got on screen at the moment and click OK and that's added that in we've now got a cover because your first layout will always be the cover of your collection so if you make your own cover when you click Add you just make sure that the one you've created is selected first and then it will be the cover for your collection now you can go ahead and save your digits or so did you kick down the bottom that's going to take you to your computer now your digits are in your browser are kept here in my digi kit so if I just open that you'll see them all in there if you save your collection to there it will automatically be in the craft artists software but if you want to save on an external drive or serve it somewhere else just find some relatives I could send it to my external hard drive or I can serve it in pick my pictures is wherever you want to serve it really and then I'll show you how to add the browser later so I'm going to keep it in the autumn kit section so I know where it is and then give your collection in them so we'll just call this demo and click Save and it's going to it's going to process it can take a while it depends how much informations in there the bar just goes on just be patient and wait for it eventually it just disappears off the screen and then you can continue adding to your collection so that's done now if we go back we'll see there's embellishments now I know that I've got digi stamps and I've got sentiments in this collection which I'm going to add to the embellishment section so again import down the bottom here and add files and then we'll look for those other folders so in here we've got sentiments click the first one down to the bottom click the last one holding the shift key open that will bring all the sentiments in you'll see that they've all gone in here import again add files go back digi stamps click the first one click the last one holding the shift key down open and that's going to import those bitmaps as well after it's done this one I'm going to show you how you then save your digi kit again without having laws of different versions of the same kit so we'll click Save digi kit here and you'll see it's in the folder that we served in - you see it there so you'll recognize that as the as an image that you normally have in your digi-key I just click that to put the name in here and click Save it's going to tell me this already exists do I want to replace it I do because I've added to it so I've changed the kit so just click yes and once again the little progress bar I'll go over and it'll save all the new things in as well as the things that we'd already got in the collection so again this can take a little bit of time it depends how much information it's processing and once that green bars gotten all the way to the end the Box disappears and then you can move on to the next section so the next section of the is the pair facility of backgrounds and materials so you click the background' section here on this side again travel down to import and just exactly the same we're just looking for those paper files now so go back to the collection um they were there so I'm going to pick up the coordinating papers here again you click the first image go down to the bottom hold the shift key click the last and open and then while we're doing that folder let's just drop down to the material section here this is just how I work because and I don't forget bit import add files and exactly the same again and what will happen is it will generate the materials 8 by 8 and the backgrounds are make generated at twelve by twelve so it automatically does it for you which is really cool so whatever collection you download you know that the papers will be the right size so let's go and find the other papers in the collection so there's a few here click open and again do the same with the materials import add files and that's that one and then I just know I know that in this collection there's one more set of papers or add files go back so it's really easy to just build up your the kitchen self all the works done for you by the software just takes a little bit of time gathering and then lastly we'll do these into materials once all your backgrounds materials are in place you see them all there go down save EDG kit again click on it save it yes and then like the progress go through once again once the green bow is gone all the way to the end and we can move on to the next section the next section I'm going to do is going to do the letters we're going to come back to the frames in a second because as if there's a little bit more work that you need to do to the friends but we're going to go to the letters so if the collection you are converting has alphabets in it then this is how you do it so I'll click import and add files again and this time we go and find the alphabet which is here and there's only uppercase in this collection but if it was upper and lowercase I'll show you how you assign your letters so this works a little bit differently you get a keyboard up here because each of these images has to be assigned a character basically to make it work on the keyboard so if I add upper and lower case then I will design the air and then obviously if it was a lowercase a it will be that one you've got all your punctuation along here and your numbers and then different symbols if they're in your collection as well quickest way to do it you click the letter which is going to assign it you can go down to the bottom and click OK but then the more time effective way to do it is to just print the press your Enter key so I'm literally going across each letter clicking it and then pressing the enter key on my keyboard it's as simple as that so I've got all the way through your alphabet to assign your letters like this and then this will work at the bottom of the letter box so you'll be able to write full words and just insert them okay it so they're all in there and that's all done so now we're going to go on to the frames so we open up the frame tab and if we go down to the bottom weight normally says import it says create frame this time and this is because it generates into an intelligent digital frame it says add files so we just go to the collection and add the files now even though these frames have been made to work with they're all PNG so they do have the centers cut out when they get generated within the educator little bits get missed in the frame I'll show you what I mean in a second so once the friends are all in there we're going to click done down the bottom here and I'm going to just add a page to my workspace like this and we're going to bring on a frame I'm going to show you what I mean about missing bits so we're going to start with this one here and I'm going to zoom right in so you can see what I'm talking about so to test it we want to add the photograph to it so we go to the photos tab on the left and click add and just find a couple of photographs that we can test our frames with click open drag you photograph on it's going to drop in so it's already working as intelligent for him as it would normally do in the software and what I'm going to do now just to make it obvious what I'm talking about is I'm just going to draw a colored box behind I'm gonna put it behind the frame so let's just fill this in with a bright color and we send this all the way back and if we zoom in to the corner so you see it's framed absolutely fine around here but when you come down to this little section here look you can see the bright green behind the image so this is a hole in your frame so it hasn't quite generated it properly and also around the edge of the leaf is a little bit sketchy here and there's a few gaps here but it's easy to remedy it just a couple of extra steps so I'm going to zoom out now you can see what I'm doing on the screen and what we do is we're just going to get rid of that green box we'll click on the frame and at the bottom of the frame it will say select cropped item so you click that and that's your photograph and just delete it out the way so we're back to the empty frame we're going to go back to the ship tool at the top here and we're going to select the rectangle and with the left mouse key pressed down we just draw out the rectangular shape and we want it to be of it sort of not we wanted to be over the edge of the frame from the inside obviously not all over the frame on the outside and then make sure that all this is taken in as well down to the bottom of the frame here so you can adjust it now wherever this line is is where your photograph will go to in the frame so you don't want it too far away because obviously you lose more of the edge of your photograph when it's friend so once you've done that we go over to the layers tab here so we open up the layers tab and then in layer one which is what we're working on do the drop down there and you'll see your friend in this list do the drop down again and this is how your frame is made up this poly curve here is what makes the hole in the middle and we need to replace it with the rectangle we've just drawn so click on the quick rectangle hold your left mouse key down and drag that rectangle down and sit it between the frame image and the poly curve and I know it looks weird on the screen but do not panic so you're sitting that quick rectangle between the picture of the frame and the poly curve click on the red poly curve click on the red image and then literally click the delete button on your keyboard so you've got rid of the poly curve there and all you need to do is just move that on your page and that's going to adjust it back to look normal and I'll show you the difference it's made when we insert the photograph here and we zoom in you'll now see that those gaps around the pumpkin are actually your photograph so it's a nice clean image within your photograph you've got no fuzzy edges ok so we're assuming out next step get rid of befores graphs when we frame click your frame we need to open up the frame tab on this side and we need to drag the frame holding the left mouse key down to the frame tab and drop it and you'll find it in the bottom of your own tab tab now this is the original image and you just need to delete that we need to remove it from there because that's the one that wasn't right this is the corrected one okay so you've got to remember to replace them otherwise you're going to confuse yourself so I'm just to really quickly do it again with us with this simple rectangle shape and then I'll show you how to do other shapes as well so that frames on I know that there's bits missing on this one so I won't go through that whole process again you pick up the shape tool here you draw your rectangle out so it's within the frame here yep we go over to the layers tab on the right and open up the frame pick up the rectangle hold it with your left mouse bring it down drop it between picture and Polly curve so the picture of the frame and the red Polly curve click on the red Polly curve delete and then on the screen just move that friend to make it look normal again and that one's done though so again in the friends tab on the Left just drag and drop your frame that's now at the bottom and remove the original one so you'll see that they're circular friends in here as well or even of all this works for all walls as well so if we zoom in it's exactly the same principle we go to the shape tool at the top but this time in the drop-down menu you pick the quick ellipse click on it and draw yourself a circle and if it's not quite circular don't worry about it so I'm going to go and just pull these modules out on the corners until it's inside the frame area just push that one up so it's not too far down so that's inside the friend area there just click select to deactivate your shape tool again we're going over to the right to the layers open up the frame section pick up that quick ellipse drag it down between the frame picture and the red poly curve click the red poly curve delete it maybe friends a lot normal and then drag and drop you frame to the frame tab and delete the original one and then very quickly there's a heart shape one here and that just works exactly the same way because you can go to your shape tool and find a heart and you'll always find a shape that will work for whatever frame you're working on even the odd shape friend you'll be able to find a ship and then you can manipulate it as you need to so I need to pull out the corners a little bit more and I need to pull up the height to make sure it's within within the friend area so make sure it's down here within that framed area it doesn't have to be perfectly in the middle just as long as it's it's outside of the inside of the frame and inside of the outside of a friend that's very confusing Michelle okay we'll click select a deactivate shape tool a months again open your frame on this side grab the quick heart drawing bring it down to above the poly curve click the polygon delete it and now we've got your frame sorted so you would just drag that across that's in the bottom and delete the original and you've got do that for all the friends that you're adding to your collection now we can go back to the toolbar did you get creator and if we go down each section each section that we want that we've got images for is full frames are done materials done letters are done and you've got your kit cover so you'd serve your did your kit click it save yes and then just wait for that progress bar to go across once it's gone all the way to the end that's your digi kit actually saved and done and I'm going to assure you if you haven't saved it into the My Documents section on your computer which means it's automatically gone into your browser I'll show you how you get to it so all we do is we click done to close the digital and we actually close the Kraft artist program and I don't want to save the project because that layout is in my kit now so I don't need the layout so we click now and then you'll see wherever we've saved it to on your computer go and find it so you see it here so this is now a pack file this now works with the Kraft artist software and if you double click it it will ask you do you want to move the imported digitate file and if you say yes it will actually take away from where I've kept it and if I say no it'll leave it there but it will also transfer it to the software so I'm going to say no because this is a way you can keep things on your external hard drives and so you've got backup so you never lose your kits click now and you say and it says it's imported successfully as quick as that click ok it's going to launch the software again so if I just show you with a blank project where it is whoops no like that and if we look in our work did you get browser the demo kit is there I'm going to click it and you'll see all the images are there ready to go you add your did you get you click done and then you can just craft away to your heart's content so that is the quickest easiest way to convert your images any downloads you've got that you want to use in your craft artists software the quickest way to do it is to create your own digits with the digit creator so it's that easy to convert your images into a digit within the craft artists software and once again I have to say unfortunately you need to be an existing user of the software as it's no longer available to purchase but hopefully the existing users that have now watch this video you'll be able to go away and create digits to your heart's content digital craft collections are a really cost effective way of crafting it's just an endless resource and you never run out to be favorite paper or embellishment and it's always there to hand whenever you want to craft and with so many prints were mediums out there from t-shirt printing bags Cotton's canvases acetates even shrink plastic the possibilities are truly endless if you'd like any of my craft collections please visit my EXCI shop which is mjm design studios and the link will be in the description below and while you're there please subscribe and click the bell for videos coming up thanks very much for stopping by and watching this video I hope it's been helpful and I hope you enjoy creating your digi kits and until soon happy crafting [Music]