Silhouette Studio Design Trick: Change Your Art Board Background Color

Did you ever create a design in Silhouette Studio only to realize it doesn't look good on the surface where you put it?

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There's a little known trick in the Silhouette software that will help you avoid this completely!

Open your design in Silhouette Studio. I'm using this cheer and basketball SVG design from So Fontsy.

I shared how to customize it for my kids' school colors in this video.

The problem is I wasn't sure what color combination between the megaphone and poms would look good on different color sweatshirts.

But by using the Media Color option in the Page Setup panel I was able to quickly see my original design colors was not going to work.

I had both a blue sweatshirt and a white sweatshirt. Look what happens when I change the Media Color background to blue representing the color of the shirt.

It becomes obviously the poms are going to end up too hard to see.

The solution is either change the color of the poms or put a white offset around the entire design to make it pop. The white offset is what I ended up doing..

...but now when I change the background to white to see how it will look on a white sweatshirt, the megaphone is odd because both it and it's offset are white. (Yes I could print two different versions, but if you're doing this at scale it's best to have one option.)

With the background white, again, I can see a slight design change is needed.

I made my final edits by changing the megaphone to red and inverted the red and blue on the poms.

By using the Media Color option these "issues" come up before the design is printed or cut so I'm not wasting media, ink or time.

And here's me and my mom wearing a custom team gear at a recent football game.

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