Learn at your own pace
Practical tutorials that take you from your first project to advanced techniques.
3 videos
Start here for setup and the basic operation of Create software.
Introduction to the Valiani Create workspace, including how to start a project, enter mat dimensions, add openings, and navigate the main design tools.
Continues the Create overview with additional editing, layout, layer, and project-setting tools used to prepare a finished mat design for production.
A beginner-friendly walkthrough of the essential steps for creating, saving, previewing, and sending a basic mat project to a Valiani cutting machine.
5 videos
The everyday functions that make designing faster and easier.
Learn how to remove, duplicate, and reposition openings or design elements, making it easy to reuse shapes and quickly revise a mat layout.
Create evenly spaced rows and columns of repeated openings, with controls for the number of copies, spacing, and overall arrangement.
Combine multiple objects so they can be edited as one, then precisely align them to the mat, guide lines, centerlines, edges, or other objects.
Create an outline that follows the shape of an opening, artwork, text, or another object for decorative borders and accurately shaped cuts.
Add decorative V-shaped channels to the mat surface and adjust their size, shape, placement, and relationship to the openings.
4 videos
Moderately advanced tools and important features to know.
Use the ruler and guide system to measure distances and accurately position openings and decorative elements within the mat.
Select and adjust preloaded decorative corners—or create custom corner treatments—to personalize rectangular and shaped openings.
Build fan-shaped or radial arrangements and add text using TrueType, Valiani, or monoline fonts for decorative mat designs.
Design oversized mats that exceed the available matboard or machine working area by dividing the project into accurately aligned sections for assembly.
4 videos
Advanced lessons for unique and specialty designs.
Use the shadow-box template to create layered, dimensional framing projects with correctly sized openings, walls, folds, and assembly sections.
Create custom-shaped openings that follow or wrap around specific features of the artwork instead of using standard rectangles, circles, or ovals.
Import vector clip art—such as artwork prepared in CorelDRAW—and incorporate it into a Valiani Create project as a decorative cut or drawn element.
Assign and combine multiple pen colors within one project, controlling which design elements are drawn by each pen before cutting or finishing the mat.
