
I can do the same for the red circles but this time I will use a different method. To do this, I will Ungroup the heart and circles and then hold down the shift key and only click on the pink circles and then right-click and Group them (Fig. This is important so I can cut out my heat transfer vinyl for each color and then when I go to layer the different colored vinyl pieces together to iron on to the shirt, I don’t have to try and figure out where each individual circle goes around the heart. It makes changing the arrangement or resizing designs a lot easier! Click to enlarge Group by ColorĪnother reason to use Group, especially with the t-shirt design used here, is to be able to separate and move different colored elements around, on or off of the mat, while keeping them in their current layout. E), rearrange that one circle and then group them together again.

D) or by using the Ungroup icon on the upper toolbar (Fig. If, for example, I don’t like how one circle is arranged, I can Ungroup the heart and circles by right-clicking and selecting Ungroup (Fig.

It is super quick to do and is the primary reason I use Group – to keep a bunch of elements together so I can rearrange them, resize them or just move them around as I design a project. Now I can resize it just as easily and move it around on the mat without worrying at all that I may miss selecting one star and have to redo it. Another way to do this is to click the Group icon on the upper toolbar (Fig. So, to Group the heart and circles, I need to again click and drag to select the whole design and then right-click and select Group (Fig. It also makes it easy to move all of those elements around I can just click once and drag rather than needing to click and drag to select everything and then click and drag to move it all. The easiest way to make sure that happens is to use Group to temporarily stick all the design elements together in one “group” that I can resize very easily and while I do that, all of the individual elements will remain proportional to each other. Even though redoing it isn’t that big a time waster I’d rather just do it right the first time and be done with it. You can just undo and then reselect all of it and resize it.” That is true, but like most people, I have limited time to craft so I want to be as efficient as I can be. You’re probably thinking, “Well, that’s not that big a deal. If I miss one or two items without realizing it and go to resize, there is almost no way I can get those two objects resized on their own to be perfectly proportional with the larger size of rest of the design. That absolutely works but it does mean that I need to be careful when I click and drag to make sure I have every object in the design selected. To do this, I can click and drag over the entire design to select all of the objects and then resize it with one of the corner handles. If I want to turn this into an iron-on for a t-shirt, the first thing I need to do is resize it to fit on an adult tee.

A below, I’ve got a multi-colored design with a large heart and a bunch of circles.
